Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-25
She FALTENED At Times
DEFENDANT BROKE DOWN AS
THE PROSECUTOR Barred
HER LIFE.
ALL minors ARE EXCLUDED
Testimony Causes Judge To Order
Baliff TO Keep All Children From
the Court Room.

DENVER, Colo, Nov 24.-Against
the story that Gertrude Gibson Pat
terson, on trial for the murder of her
husband, told on the witness stand,
special prosecutor Benson this after
noon subjected her to a merciless
cross-eNamination. The state brought
out several discrepancies. The chief
points of her story attracted We're that
her husband beat and otherwise in
jured her physically.
The mask of imperturbility that
Mrs. Patterson had worn through the
early days of the trial vanished Twice
she wept, while at other times she
was indignant
Early Life Reviewed.
Reviewing her early life in Sand
oval, ILL.,, Prosecutor Benson wrung
from Mrs. Patterson an admission
that when she was about Ii years old
she had been expelled from school,
but not for immoral conduct. as he
had intimated. He then endeavored
unsuccessfully to get Mrs. Patterson
to admit that she had lived at a re-
sort in ST. Louis. Mr. Benson led
her over the story of her husbands
alleged abuse when Patterson entered
a Denver sanitarium.
Coming down to the trip to Europe
with Strouss, the prosecution sought
to get from the witness that just prior
TO the trip she had urged her hus-
band to get into some business for
himself, and that negotiations were
pending for his purchase in Chicago
printing establishment for which she
was to give him S1,5O0, which she
said she had Inherited from an estate
that had never been settled.
TO all questions on this point Mrs
Patterson returned positive denlals or
qualified by mot that | know Of"
Asked Not 10 Go.
Didn't you receive a telegram
from Patterson in New York before
you sailed, asking you not to CO."
asked Mr.. Benson.
"Yes. after he had the 1900"
didn't he say that he had discov-
cred that Strouss was scoundrel and
that things were not as he had been
led to believer"
NO"
"And when you and Strouss reached
Paris you found a letter from your
husband in which he said that IL YOU
did not return at once he would fol-
low you and kill you and Strouss too"
Yes"
"And Strouss gave you $4,000 and
sent you home"
YES"
Prosecution Fell Down.
That Strouss and Mrs. Patterson
kept up a correspondence and that
opposition on Pattersons part to any
further relations with her former ad-
mirer We're the points the state vain
ly strived to bring out.
The letter addressed to herself and
signed "E. w. ST." she said that II
did not seem to her to be in Mr..
Strouss' handwriting.
The story of the witness girlhood;
of her meeting with Strouss when she
was 16 years old; Of his taking her
to Paris TO study; of her return to
Chicago with him at the end Of that
time, and the life she let five years
Immediately following, were brought
remorselessly under cross -examina-
ton. These points had been avoided
in direct examination.
Put Her in Boarding school.
Three months after she met Strouss
Mrs Patterson said she and Strouss
sailed for Paris. wheer he put her in
boarding school,
Were you travelling as his wfe?'
4 Not them"
H Was he exercising the privileges OF
! husband?"
There was a pause. and then Mrs.
Patterson said family, Yes" and
covered her face with her hands and
wept.
Mrs. Patterson probably will be on
the stand much Of tomorrow.
Portions of Mrs. Patterson's testi-
mpny this morning led the court to
invite his bailiffs to exclude all min