Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — JURY FAILS TO AGREE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JURY FAILS TO AGREE.

Nan Patterson Murder Case Result* ia Mistrial. After deliberating for twenty hours the jury in the Nan Patterson murder case in New York reported that it could not agree and was discharged. The woman had confidently expected an acquittal. The crime with which Nan Patterson, the former show girl, was charged, was one of the most sensational in New York criminal annals. Its peculiar circumstances, the prominence of Caesar Young in sporting circles, and the glamor thrown around the central figure in the case because of her membership in one of the numerous “Florodora” sextets, all tended to lend it an interest hardly rivaled in recent years. Interest in “the murder in the hansom cab,” spread through all circles and the proceedings of the trial have been read from coast to coast and have held a place on the first page of the metropolitan press. With Miss Patterson sitting beside him in a cab June 4, Young was on his way to a steamship pier, where his wife awaited him, to sail with her for Europe. The trip avowedly was planned

to break his relations with the girl. It was at an- hour in the morning when the streets were not crowded. There was a pistol shot and Young fell forward, dead with a bullet in his chest. Just what transpired in the glass-inclosed vehicle probably will never be known. For some days an absolute silence prevailed. Then a flood of alleged eye-wit-nesses turned up. Their stories, however, could not stand investigation, and one after another th 6 witnesses were cast aside as sensation seekers. Then an old man, Martin Hazleton, came forward. His probity was unquestioned. He told what he had seen on that June morning. He saw the man and woman, their hands clasped and held face high, then a flash, a puff of smoke and the report of a revolver broke the stillness of the morning. The defendant herself went to the witness chair and told the whole story of her acquaintance with Young from the day she met him up to the fatal moment in the cab.' She said her companion shot himself. He held both her wrists with one hand and as she struggled to free herself she heard a revolver’s report and Young sank back dead. This in brief is the story of a case that has been a three times nine days’ talk in New York. There were many sensational side lines to it, none of which were brought out at the trial.

NAN PATTERSON.