The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-18
AGAIN IN TROUBLE.
Daniel ]. Patterson Heard From
in San Francisco.
ANOTHER WOMAN M THE CASE,
A Close Call for the Gay Lothario-Ths
Scandal Connected with His Di-
yores In Seattle


former resident Of Seattle who furnished
material for local sensation last fall IN
the saapa OF an application for q divorce
made by bis wife. Mrs. Lacy NJ. Patter-
son, on the ground of desertion. The
husband started TO make strong fight in
the case and furnished nun Der OF affi-
dagits setting forth some very damaging
evidence against me wife and asking for
the custody Of their only child, a boy, then
10 years old. He failed TO prosecute to
Judgment. however, and Judge Humes, on
January Is. 1894, signed the decree by de-
fauit, giving the wife the divorce aud the
boy 70 the father
Mr.. Patterson again turns up in scam
daI. this lime In San Francisco and in a
hghsnot at all cTeditabie 10 himself. The
san Francisco CAr0niele Of July 10 pub
fishes the following account OF an affair in
which Patterson was the principal figure,
the usual woman in the case" being there
aud at the bottom Of il. of course:
.People living IN the neighborhood of
Lyon and Grove streets were startled about
O'Clock last n sgnt by the report of pistol
shots and screams of Murderr and .Po-
leeF minute later an old man stag
gered o1t of the house on the southw est
corner OF the Streets mentioned with blood
flowing IN q stream from q wound on his
head. He was followed by a wiId-ey ed
young man who Vas asso bleeding. He
hourished revolver and soon disappeared
In the darkness upGrove street. A second
later young woman dashed out of the
same door clad only in her nlghtrobe.
She, too, was 1ourishinR revolver and
screaming at the top of her voice. Shortly
after tall, Eell-buift, but bloody young
man also emerged from the house and.
seizsng the yonng woman. rushed her back
into fhe house. and all was quiet until the
arrival OF sergt. Birdsall and Officers Col
Inns, Sawyer and Reardon In the patrol
wagon, who mas been called by telephone
The cause Of all this commotion, when
unEaveted. seems 20 be a hight over a
woman. Mrs. Rene Flood, wife of III. T.
Flood, a manufacturers agent, is getting
a divorce from her husband She occu-
pies the upper hat At one time the
woman. who is young, pretty brunette.
vas an actress, and@a few months ago vas
the ticket taker in small theater at
North Beach. She rents one of her rooms
to J. j. Lent, a song-and-dance artist.
Some time ago Mrs. Flood met ID. ]. Pat
terson. tall, Incorporating young archi-
tect, who lives At the Marechal Neil.
According to Mrs. Floods story she
was not selling well yesterday and had
gone to bed. Mr.. Patterson was sitting
ing poetry 10 her. Suddenly Lent burst
into her bedroom in an excited manner
and struck Patterson in the face with his
fist. Patterson resented this treatment by
choking Lent until the latter was quiet.
He threw the limp song-and-dance artist
into the hall and shut the door
. As soon rs the latter got some air into
his lungs be ran 30 enter the bathroom,
which communicates with Mrs. Flood 5
bedroom, but Patterson was there first,
and braced against the door. Lent's next
move was to open up fusillade of bullets
with his pocket artillery at the door. One
Of the bullets struck Patterson in the side
OF the head. but it fiattened and glanced
Oft Patterson fell. and Lent burst in and
snapped the weapon at the fallen man.
bat the pistol was empty.
Patterson recovered and again Crap
pied with his assarant, whom he once
more oveFpowered.
Mrs. Flood offered Patterson her pistol
and told him TO kill Lent but the archi-
tect said that he did not want 10 hang for
an actor. Instead he gave the latter a
kick into the hall. Lent on recovering.
started to escape, but an old man named
Ed Heath tried to stop him, but he was
beaten on the head with the stock of
Lents empty Weapon Then they all ran
into the street aud created sensation.
LENT, after throwing away his pistol,
hack way. When the police rounded up
the party it was sorry appearing group.
Patterson was bleeding from his wound,
and his face bore the evidences of severe
blows. Lent's face was covered with con-
tusions and bumps. Old man Heath 3
scalp was laid open, and Mrs. Flood was
in Mysteries. Even the bathroom door
was injured. 1t looked like a military
target.
LENT was arrested for an assault TO
commit murder. He says that he was so
drunk that he does not recollect what
happened, except that he got the worst
of it.
Heath and Patterson went to a neigh
boring drug store 10 repair damages, while
Mrs. Flood made liberal use of 8 salts
bottle"
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Patterson. the divorced
wife who is still In Seattle. was seen by a
reporter o. the Pcsr-INrELIIGEHcER yester-
day and shown the item in question. She
had no comments to make on it, but when
questioned relative To her own troubles
With him she did not hesitate to speak:
I'VE were married in Minneapolis Feb
ruary .. Iss2, sad lived together until
April Il fssA Oar only child, boy, Is
nov III years old and in the Baptist uni
varsity at Columbia. On April l.. 1898.
under rretext OF having me visit his pa
rents In Minneapolis he sent me East,
asking u1S 20 etay q short time. After a
month / wanted 10 come back, and 80
wrote him for money on which 20 travel
lie answered urging me TO remain longer
| demurred and repeatedly wrote asking
tor money. 10 which. however. he paid no
attention. Finding that he would do
nothing 1 Lnahy borrowed $50 of Mrs
stiekney and went 10 Spokane, where he
had been working for Mr.. Richie as archi-
tect, When | reached there. June -. 1855
| found that he had run away with Miss
Mamie Johnson, who had worked in
a millinery store there and who had been
In my parents family since childhood.
lie had very considerably left me note
telling me- he would not live with me
again and that he had gone TO Mime
an3lis / came on 10 Seattle, and lived
vita my parents. l subsequently, heard
that Patterson tsred OF the girl and re-
turned 70 Spokane, where ne again went
70 work for Mr. Richie. The death Of my
father. in Noyemb Der, lsss3. caused post
ronenaent 81 the divorce case for month.
since that time have lived alone, depend
inron shat [ could earn ~ sewing, to-
eegheF With the SIS . moath allowed me
Nv tie court from Patterson. From Spo-
kaue Patterson went 10 San Francesca,
and worked ia the Flood building l ain
nos ANXIOUS 10 be given the control OF the
boy. as can get a good home IN Mime
Apoais, bat sIs not 30 aud desert my
Eoys
Wien Mrs. Patterson filed her COM
plant gor divorce the husband started TO
.behtthe esse bitterly. and IN his answer.
alter denying all her allegations, accuses
his ~{te OF adultery and names Wallace
Madison as e0resp pendent, alleging that
tie first ACT vas com mitted some time in