The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-11-21

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| considered her silly foolishness. 1t
was the horror of this bony vision
that appeared the uppermost thought
in the girlish mind of Nan Patterson
| from the time that she learned that
the bullets course would be thus
described, and one of the questions
| she asked at the end Of the first day
| in court was:
"Will I have to see that skeleton?
| I don't want to look at it, and l don't
see what it is for anyway; everyone
! knows / didn't do it."
That there could be a question of
her conduct in the minds of the IL
evidently had not entered into her
thoughts, for the day that the trial
was begun she packed everything but
| the toilet articles that she daily need
ed, ready for the prisons doors to be
opened to her.
Il am all ready to go the moment
| they say I cam" she smilingly an
| nounced when returning to the Tombs
after the case was finally begun, land
| this means the last time l shall pack
them here.
II am going to go right home to
Washington by the first train that
starts after they let me out, and I
will never leave there again. One
| never knows until they are in trouble
! what good friends their parents are.
| | have had a lot of friends and they
have been good to me and a number
of them still are, but it's your par
ents that stand by you when you
are in trouble and daddy has been
so good to me ever since they locked
me up"
A great deal has been said lately
about the mafnificence of the ward
robe of Nan Patterson, and the nu-
merous dresses that have been pre-
pared for her appearance in court. 1t
has even been limited that she was to
dress the part deliberately, and that a
change of costume was to be fire.
quently made.
She has each day come in the same
somber black gown, and the truth is
1t is the only winter frock she has
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of her attorney, Mr. O'Reilly.
Until a fortnight before the trial
was begun, and despite the sharp
| frosty days, Nan was still wearing
the summer skirts and shirt waists
that were brought to her soon after
her Imprisonment in the Tombs. The
broad-rimmed black straw hat, that
was pictured over and over again at
the time that fatal cab ride occurred
was the only headdress she had in
jail until millinery was sent for last
week and the result is the handsome
black velvet hat that each day Is seen
in court.
| This is large with a rolling brim
and the velvet is crushed upon the
crown. a huge pompom of black
ostrich tips is at one side of the hat
and a full flowing veil of Brussels
net is draped over her face and tied
loosely in the back.
The dress that she wears is of soft
nuns yelling, and is made in the pre-.
vaillng mode. 1t escapes the GROUND
in walking. and the fun round Skin
has a deep shirred fiounce to the
knees. The waist has a yoke of sill
embroidery, and the somber mourn
ing air is relieved, and yet intensified
by the tiny ruch OF white that is a
her throat That she has prepared
for an immediate departure is visibl,
depicted in the heavy winter coat tina
she each day carries into court.
In two ways only Is there a notice
difference in Nan Patterson since tn,
days of early summer. She walks
into court with the same bravery, al
on the first occasion, and while sh,
liz the same girlish figure, yet, Their
is slight difference. She Is a trih
stouter now than then, and seyera
shades palcr, but the latter Is neve
from fear. She Ia used to the opel
air and plenty of free exercise, an,
in her pallor her long Imprisonment
shows. But even this can not TAX
from her the beauty that has wo
mems hearts from her earliest days
and which will continue to win then
until the end.
Nan Patterson Is of the distinctl
soft and clinging feminine type
Everything about her Is soft--he
deep blue eyes. her small white hand