The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-12-08
DESCRIBE PATTERSON MURDER
WOMAN KILLED SPOUSE WITH
TWO SHOTS.
Man Who Saw Her Commit Deed Too
Late to Avert The
Tragedy.

Denver, Nov. 24.-An only eve wit.
hess to the shooting of Charles A. Pat.
terson, for the murder of whom Ger
trude Gibson Patterson, his wife. is
on trial before Judge Allen, was placed
on the stand. A. B. Shugart, whose
home is near the spot where Patter-
son was killed, is the man.
On the morning of Sept. %, he testi-
fled, he was stepping from a shed in
the rear of his home, when he heard
two shots, fired in rapid succession.
Startled he looked in the direction
from which the sound came, and saw.
some 300 feet away, a man upon his
hands and knees. A woman with re-
volver in hand, was standing over
him.
Il shouted to her to STOP said
Shugart. land Immediately she shot
again. The a lurched forward on
his face, and stiffened out. Running
around the house l saw the woman
STOPPING over the PROSTATE form. AS
approached she ran into the house in
front of which the shooting had oc.
Cured.
Follows Her Into House.
The witness here identified the re.
rOlver and then described how he fol.
lowed her into the house she entered
and found her in a chair, apparently
IN a faint. When he unbuttoned her
jacket to search for a weapon she
opened her eyes and looked at him.
~ 1CKnl hnr u,ho fh-
was declared the witness, land she
answered: He is my husband. He
wronged me- When he sought other
information, he declared she refused
to talk. Attorney Hilton for the de-
tense failed to shake Shugart's testi-
mony. The state introduced witness.
es to ~substantiate it's claims that the
killing of Patterson was premeditated.
George w. Strain told the jury of
events at Mrs. Patterson's bungalow
on the Saturday night preceding the
shooting. He had been in The habit of
visiting at Mrs. Patterson's home. he
said, and admitted he vent armed on
this occasion, because Mrs. Patterson
had warned him of her husbands vic.
'O' A'I ! | ~ dilu a lIIeIlu
appeared at the house unexpectedly
and Mrs. Paterson hurridly went into
the house. Patterson ordered him
from the premises in a threatening
manner and he drew a gun and march
ed Patterson and his friend off, at tho
point of the revolver.
Leaves His Revolver.
Strain told how Mrs. Patterson ran
after her husband. How they went
away together and after her return
she %upbraided him for jeopardizing
the chances of success in her divorce
action. AS he was leaving, Strain said,
Mrs. Patterson asked him to leave his
revolver, which he did.
He identified the weapon, with
which Patterson was killed. as the one
he had left with Mrs. Patterson. Wit
nessos were introduced to show that
Mrs. Patterson had called her husband
on the telephone at the sanitarium on
the morning that the killing took place.
He had answered, II don't ever want to
see you again. She then waited at
a spot near where the shooting oc-
CURED. When Patterson saw her he
started to run away and later they
walked off together. Witnesses swOre
to these several points.
Physicians who conducted the aut-
opsy upon Patterson's body testified
that he had been shot twice in the
back, one bullet entering just under
the right shoulder blade and passing
through his shoulder and the other en-
tering just under his left shoulder
blade and passing through his heart.
The second wound caused his death,
they said.