Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-11-28

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hshment IN Chicago for Young pat
terson. The prisoner had denied that 4
such conference took place.
The witness also declared that /
when the son was IN at her home. al /
a time when the younger Mrs. pat |
tersoR had declared Patterson made /
an assault upon her. the boy was So /
weak that he had 70 be lifted IN In /
bed TO be fed and that ne had been !
taken 10 the sanitarium on a stetch-
er.
Whenever the witness referred 10
her daughter-in-aw she called her
"the defendant She contradicted |
the prisoner on a number of other
less important points.
When court adjourned today there
was prospect Of the case going 20
the jury by tomorrow night with
practically certainty that this would
take place by Wednesday In any
event.
The state has finished its testimony
In rebuttal with the privilege of fur
ther examining one Of the defense S
witnesses tomorrow and It was de-
clared by Attorney Hilton that the
testimony in sur-rehuttal would be
brief The jury may be taken TO the
scene Of the shooting to discern
whether State Witness Shugart could
have seen the shooting from where
he was standing. as testified on the
stand.
District Attorney Willis v. Elliott,
who withdrew from the prosecution
because he had acted for Mrs, Pat
terson In a divorce suit filed hy her
prior 90 the shooting. was "A witness
for the defense today. He testified
to the bruised and raw condition of
Mrs. patterson's face and neck when
she came to his Office to consult
about the divorce and said she had
told him that her husband had beat
en- her
witnets of value to both prose-
cution and defense was Charles n.
Pugh who was principal of the San
doval school when Gertrude Patter-
son. then Gertrude Gibson, was a pu-
pill and who was called by the defense
to refute the contention Of the state
that she had been expelled from
school for immoral conduct. Pugh.
who is now bookseller here, declar-
ed that in all his experience as
principal he had never expelled
pupil Under ss-examination he
said that TO his best recollection Mrs.
Patterson was twelve or thirteen
years old AT the time she attended his
school. This was sixteen or seven
teen years ago. and strengthened the
states contention that the defendant
is more than twenty-five years old as
she testified and that she was not
young and unsophistleated girl when
she met Strouss.
After failing this morning TO intro
duce as evidence Pattersons bank
corresponding to those Mrs. Patter-
son had declared he had forced her
to get tor him and on dates that
bore out that portion Of her story. the
defense this afternoon succeeded In
having introduced certified copy of
Pattersons account with the Chica-
go bank he patronized, This copy
serves the same purpose as the bank
book,
The defense also introduced let
ters written by Patterson to his wife
in which a phase OF their married
life was dwet upon and which con-
tanned references to things of an un
speakablo and unprintable nature.
The defense sought to have these let
ters introduced as evidence and read
by the jury but the state insisted that
they be read in open court. When
Judge George w, Allen upheld the
states right to this procedure, Mrs.
Patterson buried her face In her arms
and rested her head on the table be-
side her. She did not look up until
fully half an hour after the subject
had been dropped
The composure which marked her
attitude in the first days OF the trial
has deserted her entirely Apparent
ly her spirit was broken by the ordeal
of cross examination. She has been
different woman since that ended
last Saturday.
In rebuttal this afternoon, the state
put on the stand newspaper photo4I
graphers who took Mrs. Patterson's
photograph in the city jail the day OF
the shooting. They testified that they
saw no marks on her face The pro-
pretor of a drug store in the vicinity
of Mrs Patterson's home testified
that on the morning Of the shooting
she had him call up her husband for
er at the sanitarium and that he over
heard her plead with him to meet
her at downtown drug store.
w. c. Douglas former town mar
shal Of sandoval, now a member Of
a plumbing supply company here, tes-
titled that in 1905, he had gone to
Breese, Illinois, neighboring town
and brought back to Sandoval Mrs !
Patterson and her older sister Myr-
tie, who, he said. had been arrested |
In company with two men. He had
made the trip AT the request Of james
Gibson, the girls father, he said !
Douglas was not cross examined.
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