Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-23
ON YOU,
KILL YOURSELE!'
Patterson Cried to His Wife
After He Had Knocked
Her Down
FIGHT FOR SEATS At TRIAL
Men and Women of Denver
Pound Each Other to Get
Into Court.

into NOurt.
tBy Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Denver, Colo, Nov. pa decided
reversal of attitude on the part of
one witness and the absence of two
others seriously hampered the prose-
cution today in the Patterson murder
case.
Witnesses Disappear.
Louis Schramm, gardener employ
ed at the Hendrie home, before which
the shooting occurred, and by whom
the state expected to show a conver-
sation between Mrs. Patterson and
her husband just before the shots
We're fired, is in Chicago, out of the
jurisdiction of the court it was an
nounced, and Norah Brown, maid in
the Hendrie home at the time of the
shooting, and who, the state expected,
would tell of Mrs. Patterson's state
ments after she had shot Patterson,
has not yet been found by the sher-
IFS deputies.
Prosecution Plans Disarransed.
The absence of these two witnesses,
it was apparent, seriously disarrang-
ed the plans Of Special Prosecutor
Benson who asked for recess when
these witnesses failed to respond
when their names were called short
ly before the usual time for the noon
recess.
Witness Favorable to Mrs. Patterson.
Denver, Colo, Nov. 23.-Dr. W G.
Mudd, called today as state witness
in the trial of Gertrude Gibson Pat
| terson, for the alleged murder Of her
husband. Charles A. Patterson, proved
to have testimony of value to the de-
fense. Attorney Benson, of the prose-
| cution declared that the physicians
testimony came as surprise to him.
Patterson Struck Wife.
DR.. Mudd rode in the ambulance
with Mrs. Patterson when she was TAX
en- to the Jail after the shooting. He
bore out the claim of the defendant
that Patterson struck her by stating
that there was blush looking spot
on Mrs. Patterson's cheek which the
prisoner indicated to him in the
course of their ride to the lookup as
the spot where . her husband had
| struck her Witness testified further
az to the conversation between himk
self and Mrs. Patterson that the lat
ter at first told him she did not know
who had fired the shot which killed
her husband, but later she said that,
after her husband had knocked her
down, he handed her the pistol, say
ing:
Now damn you, kill YOURSELF"
Fight for Seats.
The crowd which fiocked to the
court house today was the largest OF
the trial, and the fight for seats re-
suited in much disorder in the midst
of which one woman was injured, but
not seriously. Women Wed with men
in fighting to gain entrance to the
court room before the seats were fill
ed, the stampede being attended by
much pulling and jostling about, and
the striking Of so many blows thai the
bailiffs had to use strenuous meas
ures to prevent free for all fight.
Newspaper Clipping.
| DR.. Stephen d. Parsons was placed
on the stand as the next witness. His
testimony concerned itself with a
newspaper clipping which he said he
found near Patterson's body after the
shooting, and which he stated he turn
ed over to Police Sergeant Mcintyre.
The latter who followed DR.. Parsons,
In the witness chair. confirmed the
doctors statement, but he was turned
lover to the defense for cross-examina-
tion without the clipping being read
to the jury.
Alienation Suit.
The item is said to relate tn the
alienation suit which it is said patter-
son purposed filing against Chicago
millionaire. The police sergeant tes-
titled that when he first asked Mrs.
Patterson who did the shooting, she
declared that Patterson did 1t him
self. Later he asked her how many
shots she fired, she replied that she
d1d not know.
4 Prosecution Rests.
Denver, Colo, Nov. 23.-The state
rested this afternoon In the Patterson
murder trial and Attorney Hilton, who
said he expected to place Mrs. Pat.
terson on the stand when he had con
cluded his remarks, outlined the con.
tentions Of the defense to the jury.
Psychology Of Beauty.
The psychology OF beauty is the sub
ject now open for study in the West
Side court.
The jury il selected, and already
that subtle thing feminine charm, IL
sending its sex waves vibrating across
the courtroom.
That irradicable thing, womanly
: bealty--a beauty that lures and gains
Its ultimate desire-is on one side ol
the counsel table and the waves ema
nate from pair of woman's eyes thai
: lcok softly, sweetly, appealingly, sig
> nificantly, invitingly, understandingly
into those of the twelve men In th<
jury box.
! There is no pointed insinuatfor
9 against Mrs. Gertrude Patterson. ox
d trial for the murder Of her husband
< Charles Patterson, in telling the trutl
about her femininity. Yesterday a
!" ternoon when the jury getting ~,
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