The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-28
CASE MAY
GO TO JURY
MIR -.'.T0-k|GHT
Trial Of Gertrude Patterson tot
Murder Of Husband Draw
Ing to a Close

| lienVcf, tOID,, NOV. 2S--W men
lconrt convened tnis morning in the
trial Of Gertrude Gibson Patterson for
the murder OF her husband there was
a prospect OF the case going to the
Jury by tonight, with practically a
certainty that this would take place
by Wednesday in any event. The
defense today asked that the jury be
taken TO the scene OF the shooting to
Investigate the contention of Attor-
lney Milton that the states eye-wit-
lness. Shugast, could not have W.T.
messed the affair from where he said
he was.
! The defense placed on the stand
1.-THE mysterious eye witness to the
shooting of Charles A. Patterson by
his wife. Gertrude Gibson Patterson
announcement of whose existence by
Attorney O. H. Hilton in his open
ing statement created something OF
a sensation.
He was Francis J. Easton. SO years
old, who testified tnat he had come
! from Minneapolis, Mimi. to appear in
Mrs Patterson's behalf. He came to
he testified, from Laramie, Wyo.,
WltlC It udU Dttu anu ItlL
Denver two days after the shooting
for Tacoma Wash.
corroborates Mrs.
Pstterson's Story
| Easton corroborated the story told
lby Mrs Patterson that she had snot
ner husband after he had struck her
twice and knocked her down and was
lstanding over her with his arm up
raised to strike again
On the morning Of the shooting, he
lsaid he had gone TO the Hanitarium
at which Patterson was a patient,
and after an inspection OF the grounds
had set out for walk in the neigh
bornood. Some distance from the
sanitarlum he observed man and a
woman, apparently quarreling
They turned street corner he
said and proceeded straight along.
When he was some 300 feet or so
away from the couple, he looked back,
he told the jury and saw the woman,
apparently reading newspaper clip
ping she handed the clipping TO the
man, and as she did SO he struck ner
in the face, following with second
blow, that felled her. She struggled
to one knee. he said, and fired twice,
following with two more shots after
a short pause.
Composure Of Witness unshaken
On cross-examination. he said he
had seen A. b. Shugart, the eye wit
ness placed on the stand by the state, |
running to the spot, but had not gone
over to- the body himself, because, as
he told the jury, he did not want to
get mixed up in the affair
Special Prosecutor Benson question:
ed the witness closely In regard to
his life history. but failed to shake |
his composure
Easton was the last witness for the |
defense, and after his cross-examlra-
tion. the state commenced its testi- |
mony in rebuttal, its most important |
witness being Mrs. Mary K Patter-
son. When the elder woman took |
the stand the prisoner covered her
eyes with her hand and did not look |
up while the examination of the wit |
ness was in progress.
The elder Mrs. Patterson, the pnr
pose of whose testimony was To int
peach the defendants testimony on a |
number of points, told OF a family
conference just prior to her daugh-
ter-in-laws trip TO Europe regarding
the advisability of investing $1,000 in /
a printing establishment in Chicago
for young Patterson The prisoner
had denied that a conference took
place. The witness also declared
that when a son was i'll at her home
at a time when the younger Mrs. Pat
terson had declared Patterson made
an assault upon her, the boy was so
weak that he mad to be lifted in bed
to be fed and that ne had been taken
10 the sanitarium on stretcher
Whenever the witness referred to her
law, she called her the
defendant" She contradicted the
prisoner on number of, other less
important points.