Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-11-18
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
bARES To WORLD
BLACK RECORD
Of BETRAYAL
Mrs, Gertrude Giheon Patter-
son, Accused Of Numbering
Husband, Writes Remarkable
Story of Ruin.
NARRATES S0RDID LIFE
OF LOVE AND TRAGEDY
Millionaire First Robbed Her Of
Virtue, Then Bribed Man Into
Marrying Herr Became Help
less Pawn.

Marrying Her Became Help
less Pawn,
lBy Morning journal Special Leased wlreI
Denver. Nov. i1.-Mrs. Gertrude
Gibson Patterson, who will be placed
on trial next Monday on charge OF
numbering her husband. Charles A.
Patterson. has written remarkable
biographical sketch for the use of her
attorney, o. n. Hilton, In which she
accuses prominent millionaire
clothing manufacturer of Chicago, of
having ruined her life and OF having
hribed Patterson to marry her. She
and this man, she AYERS. lived together
as man and wife for five years.
When seen at the county Jail today,
Mrs. Patterson seemed much less con-
cerned over the fate q Colorado jury
has In store for her than the effect
her story will have on her mother.
OH she groaned. 1t will break
my poor mothers heart to learn that
was never married TO this man,
nor divorced from him.
The biography reads in part as fol-
lows
when / was sixteen years old |
went with my sister, Mrs. Farnham,
and her husband 20 Chicago. We
stopped at the Auditorium hotel
where friend Of my sisters intro
duced me to this man. He was
much older than |, for at that time
my hair hung In a braid down my
back. but he WAS very kind. He ask
ed me to marry him, but said that
first | must 90 20 school and study.
After many conferences with my
people. he finally took me to Paris.
His intentions always seemed to be
honorable IN that city he provided
mo With n tutor, arranged for my
taking music lessons, and departed al
most Immediately. | was very happy
and worked very hard at my studies.
as | wanted him to be proud OF his
future wife"
Mrs. Patterson says that ti.av cor
responded for five months at the end
of which time, responding to cable
gram from him, she returned to
New York and in company with her
sister. went Immediately TO Chicago.
The millionaire registered for both CT
them. Their rooms We're adjoining
II was here, Mrs, Patterson de-
clares he began TO renew his
promises of marriage, but he always
postponed the wedding day
II was so miserable and unhappy.
although he gave me everything, the
narrator exclalms, "for when thought
had him persuaded, he would put
me off again until one day he sent me
hack To Paris.
THE fan of the same year he came
for me again. This time he told me
that he had given out the inforina-
tiuu that we We're married ana that
every one believed II
so we came again to Chicago,
where we stopped at the Strattord
hotel, in which my companion was
financially Interested,
For five years 1 lived with him as
his wife. lie introduced me as his
wife wherever we went to his friends
No one ever question that was
married to him--least OF all my
people-and an that time begged
and pleaded and coaXed him TO marry
me | wanted SO much to be like the
other women | knew
Miss Gibson, as she was then, met
her future husband, Charles a. Pat
terson, at a skating rink. They became
great friends. and although she told
nm ntI StpiAt ne uNhNd hti W w
some his VIE and expressed desire
to meet the millionaire.
after his talk with Mr., Patterson,
my make-believc husband came to me
and said that he was glad that the
biggest thing In life had come to me
and he wanted me TO be happily mar
rled.
ut wasn't untIl some little time ar
terward that | learned that ! had
been made a dupe of two men. lmhg-
Inc my feelings | was crazed with
sorrow
This betrayer, the biography says,
had given Patterson $500, which Mrs.
Patterson supposed was wedding
present. During quarrel with her
husband she claims that she learned
that this was the sum that Patterson
received for making her his Wlte,
Thereafter. she declares, life was one
long humiliation Tiled with Pattor-
sons attempts to make her secure
money from the millionaire, and Pat
terson even proposed that she become
an inmate Of Georges Place in chi
Cago. Mrs Patterson states that one
OF Patterson's schemes was that she
should inveigle her old admirer into a
compromising position by means OF
which he might be blackmailed.
Accidentally meeting him one day,
she told her story of her married
life He expressed sorrow ana invited
hor to take a "trip to Europe with him.
she asserts, aul she refused. Her hus-
band. however, she says, was delight
ed at the invitation and insisted upon
her going, threatening to Kill her II
SHE did not.
The story further states that Patter-
son demanded Sl,500 from her lover,
which the latter turned over to Mrs.
Patterson but Patterson, upon receiv-
ing IL from her declined to write an
nlwledement which the man de-
sired. It is alleged, to protect htm-
self.
While abroad, Patterson insisted on
more money. which the man, the mar
rator declares. declined to furnish, and
sent his companion back TO the Unit
ed states. She says that he gave her
personally $1,000, with the injunction
that her husband be kept In ignorance
|nf the fact,
The latter upon her return. asked