15he PRIMROSE PATH
NAN PATTERSON HAS FOLLOWED IT
TO THE PRISON BARS.
Whether Innocent or Gviilty of Murder She
Is Paying the PervoJty of a Life
of So-Ccvlled Plesxsvire.
Attracted by the Glare of the Footlights She Forsakes
Family and Friends for the Tinsel of the
Stev-ge—A Moral in Her Tragedy.
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"fynnSi h, <\P ''t. .
, NAN PATTERSON. ! J
New York.—"From the Glare of the
Footlights to the Gloom of a Cell in the
Tombs," would be a fitting title to a story
of the life of Nan Patterson, the former
Bhow girl, charged with the murder of
Caesar Young, the well-known horse
man and bookmaker.
Only a short step and a few brief mo
mentsfromthe stage with the plaudits of
hundreds still ringing in her ears as she
gaily danced in the famous "Floradora"
eextettein theglareof the calcium, to the
dismal depths of the prison, to be brand
ed as a murderer by thousands and to
hear the bitter and cutting words of the
stern prosecutor as he laid bare the se
crets of her past life.
Such, in brief, has been the experience
of Nan Patterson, and it has turned her
from a beautiful and care-free girl to
a prematurely aged woman.
There are those who declare her inno
cent of the crime charged to her; say
the is only an unfortunate victim of cir-
DEATH OK CAESAR YOUNG.
cumstances who is reaping the reward
of a life generally and generously known
e« "fast."
Whether she is guilty or innocent of
themurder of Young will probably never
he positively known to any but her and
her Maker. She has been brought be
fore the earthly bar of Justice, where
crafty and skillful lawyers have tried
to fasten the crime on her while others
have tried to free her, and the 12 men
have been unable to agree.
Adopts Life of Stage.
Nan Randolph Patterson was quite
well known along Broadway among the
atrical people for several years before
ahe so suddenly took the center of the
•tage. Among the profession though it
was simply Nan Randolph.
She was born in Washington, D. C..
(the daughter of a minister, and was
raised amid the religious surroundings
ef a Christian home.
Always of a wild and wilful dispose
the simple life did not appeal to her. j
| She was an uncommonly beautiful child,
| and the praise called forth by her good
| looks, as she grew older, turned her
thoughts in directions wholly opposed
to that intended for her bv her parents,
and before she was many years in her
teens she went to New York and ob
tained a place in the chorus.
Stage life caused her to forget the re
[ ligious training she had received. The
| glitter of the spangles and the gay life
: of the actor folk appealed to her, and she
\ decided to become a great actress.
Surely there was nothing harmful
| behind the footlights, she thought.
Fine clothes and a "good time" were
to her liking.
She was handsome in face and form
and it was not long before young scions
: of wealthy families and elderly men of
I means who haunt the "bald head" row
began to haunt the stage door and make
her acquaintance.
The flowers and champagne, suppers
: they furnished were also not- amiss.
Jewels and gems were showered on her
and more than one, smitten with her
beauty, laid their hearts at her feet
I and begged her hand in marriage.
But she refused them all. and finally
married a young man in the profession
named Martin.
Her Meeting with Young.
The confining bonds of matrimony
were evidently not to her liking, and
when "Floradora.' a musical comedy
which had gained great, popularity in
London mainly through the famous
sextette, was imported, she applied for
and obtained a position in the front row.
The company was organized to tour
the country, and was to extend to the
Pacific coast. This gave her an oppor
tunity to visit California, something she
had always longed for.
it was on this trip that she met Young,
whose tragic death has caused her so
much misery and sorrow.
Young was a prominent and success
ful horseman and bookmaker. He had
horses running on nearly all of the prom
inent tracks of the country, and was re
puted to be worth half a million dollars.
Although a married man, he immedi
ately fell a victim to the charms of the
beautiful and vivacious show girl. On
their arrival in San Francisco he In
stalled her in a handsome flat in Oak
land, across the bay, and for some
months led a dual existence. Anything
she wished for was at her command.
During the trial it was shown that dur
ing their acquaintance he had given her
thousands of dollars.
Leaves Stage for Y'oung.
While on the coast she sued for a di
vorce from her husband at his sugges
tion, and also deserted the stas-e.
With all bis faults, Young maintained
an outward show of respectability, liv
ing in a pretentious home. In an exclu
sive section of San Francisco. He had
a certain respect for his wife, and when
she discovered the double existence he
had been leading, he was driven almost
crazy by the exposure. With the reck
lessness of a man insane, he entered up
on a long debauch, and lost a fortune on
the block before he recovered himself.
According to his racing partner, he re
peatedly tried to sever his unholy rela
tions with the chorus girl, but his infatu-
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1905.
ation was too strong or his will power
too weak, for he never succeeded, and
she was his friend and companion to-the
day of his death.
Young began his career on the Pacific
coast as a foot racer, and was said to
have been one of the fastest runners that
the world "has ever known. From the
cinder path he drifted to the race track,
and his luck from the beginning was
phenominal.
Her Fatal Beauty.
Nati Patterson's beauty has been the
cause of other troubles in which lives
have been forfeited. An actor in another
who had proposed to her became insane
over her refusal and committed suicldv
in her presence. Another admirer of
hers killed himself on the coast
Nan Patterson remained in the west
with Young until last spring. They vis
ited the tracks at Los Angeles, Oakland
and other prominent racing centers on
the coast, and returned east in March
for the first time since fheir meeting.
Young returned to the coast the fol
lowing month, and it was but a few days j
before she was speeding westward in re
sponse to a telegram from him.
All this was brought out in the testi
mony at the celebrated trial. Seldom
were they separated by a very great dis
tance, and then only when it was un
avoidable.
During all this time he tried to hide;
his relations with the Patterson girl
from his wife. His friends and relatives
pleaded with him to give up the show
girl, and finally induced him to agree to
take a trip to Europe, where they hoped
she could or would not follow, and where
he might forget her.
The Fatal Shooting.
It was on the morning that he was
about to leave, on Saturday, June 4.
that the tragedy occurred. He had seen
her the evening previous, told her of his
proposed trip and, according to her
story, had asked her to follow and meet
him in London. She had given him a:i
indefinite answer, but had agreed to meet
him the next morning and see him off
; T|I(; j,j JT %I j., ,< r. PATH.
They had sent a night of carousal and
drinking, and Young was considerably
tinder the influence of the liquor when he
finally left her at her sister's home and
returned to his.
It was early next morning when they
met again. After Young had several
more drinks they entered a cab and
started for the pier, where Young's wife
was awaiting him. It was at an hour
when the streets were not very crowded
There was a pistol shot, and Young fell
FINDS HER. HUSBAND'S BODY ON
A COLLEGE DISSECTING TABLE.
Had Been Lying in Yale Medical
Cold Storage Room for
Two Months.
New Haven, Conn.—Mrs. George Klea,
of New York, took her husband's body I
back to that city, after rescuing it from
the cold storage room of the Yale med- j
leal school. Mrs. Klea made a sorrowful i
tour of the undertaking shops of the
town, looking for the body of her hus
band, whose death two months ago she
had only learned of. On learning thai
the body had been sent to the medical
school, she hurried thence, to find the
body embalmed ready for dissection.
She secured a permit to remove it to New
York.
Klea was a shoemaker here, and, be
ing ill last June, was taken to the Spring
side home, where he stayed until his
death early in October. The officials
there for the first lime learned of his
wife, whose address was found in hi.s
pocket. Kfforts were made to locate
her by letter and telegram, but, receiv
ing no reply, the officials finally turned
the body over to the medical school, ac
cording to the law of this state.
In speaking of the matter Prof. Fer
ris, of the anatomical department of the
medical school, said:
forward, his head in the girl's lap. He
was dead, and a bullet had fulfilled its
mission.
For some days an absolute silence pre
vailed. Then a flood of alleged eyewit
nesses turned up. Their stories, how
ever, could not stand investigation, and
one after another they were cast aside
as sensation seekers.
Hut there was one exception; an old
man, Martin Hazleton, of Oneonta, X.
Y. lie 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.
Hazleton was the most Important wit
ness placed on the s'and by the defense,
and the efforts of the prosecutor to shake
his brief but vital testimony ended In
failure.
Then the defendant herself went to
the witness chair and told the whole
story of her relations with Young. It
was a trying ordeal —before the curious
crowd in the courtroom—as she repeat
! Ed the history of her life from the day
she met the man who was to turn her
life in tragedy's path to the fatal moment
in the cab.
Finally the trial was completed, and
the jury, after deliberating for 24 hours,
declared they were unable to agree as
to her guilt or innocence.
Story with a Moral.
This, in brief, is the story of the lifo
of Nan Patterson, or that part of it that
had an ultimate bearing on the death
of Caesar Voting, and the trial that haa
been a three times nine-days', talk in
New York and probably throughout the
country.
Little did she suspect when she em
barked upon her theatrical career and
her life of pleasure and gaiety of the trag
ic ending and the accompanying sorrow
and pain in store for her, or she would
have undoubtedly reconsidered the mat
ter.
Although one young and wayward girl
has dearly paid the price of her folly, tho
case has served to point a moral tooth
ers that the snares and pitfalls of the
innocent maiden behind the footlights
are many, and more than one, unable
to stand the temptations offered, has
partaken of the fatal apple.
To the uninitiated, the Primrose Path
means a life of pleasure, of ease and
gaiety, strewn with roses red, but to
Nan Patterson the glamour has been
removed, and it is streaked with the
life blood of Caesar Young.
"When the bodies are turned over to
us we are instructed to hold them awhile
to see if relatives or claimants appear.
In this instance we held the body abo'
two months."
Suffers Excess of Mother-in-Law.
Detroit.—"Too much mother-in-law"
is Alfred J. Ashton's claim in answering
the second bill for divorce filed by Julia
B. Ashton. He denies his wife's as
sertion that. September G he deserted her,
but explains he left the house for a few
days to prevent Julia Pfannenschmidt,
his mother-in-law, from "inflicting great
bodily injury" on hint, "as she did on
and before that day." On another occa
sion when his mother-in-law "was abus
ing him" with a broomstick, Ashton
says his wife "upheld her mother and
declared she would get a divorc9."
Truly Wild and Woolly
Portland, Ore —Visitors to the Lewi3
and Clark exposition in Portland next
year will not "take in the Midway" nor
"go down the pike." They will "hit the
trail."
For a Bible, $8,250.
London.—Robert Burns' family Bible,
containing interesting family entries',
was sold at auction here for $8,250. The'
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And His Self - Importance Blinded
Him to the Possibility of
a Mistake.
A livelv-looking porter stood on tho
rear platform of a sleeping car in the
Pennsylvania station, says the Cleveland
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