The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-30
MRS. PATTERSON |S ACQUITTED BY JURY Verdict Causes Enthusiastic
 Demonstration RELATIVES ARE HAPPY Jury Had No Trouble in Arriving At Verdict, As At No Time
 Were There More Than Two
 Votes for Conviction
RELATIVES ARE HAPPY

Denver, Col. November 2q.-Gertrude Gibson Patterson. accused of the n'nrder Tor her husband. t1lsfrles 4. Patterson, whom she shot to death while the couple were walking together in a suburb on September 25. today was declared not guilty by jury in the district court.
 As the clerk finished reading the yer dict Mrs. Patterson sprang to her feet anG caught the outstretched hand of her attorney From outside the court room came a roar of cheers, but inside the room the crowd was quiet.
 As court adjourned, however and Mrs. Patterson stepped forward to thank the Jurors, the crowd overwhelmed her with congratulations. Her efforts to reach the jurors were in vain. Later four of the jurors called on her as she was making ready to leave the jail.
 The space between the court room and tho jail was packed with cheering trowd On the arm of her attorney Mrs. Patterson struggled through the throng while men tried to shake her hand and women strove to kiss her
 Behind her, waving both hands, went her father, shouting with joy
 Close behind him followed the mother ant. sister, both in tears.
 As Mrs. Patterson stepped from the jail rotunda, gay with Thanksgiving dec orations the 150 prisoners gave her round of cheers.
 At no time in the deliberations tf the jury were there more than two votes for
 l.o Ict. folra Tba first resulted in ten for acquittal and two for conviction for murder in the first degree This ballot was taken last night after the jury, which retired before 10 q clock, had made It's preliminary sur vey of the evidence. After that ballot the jury went to bed
 The second ballot was taken soon after the jury returned from breakfast, re- sultng as the first. An hours discus sion followed and the third ballot stood Il to 1 for acquittal The fourth ballot was unanimous for acquittal.
 Because of the funeral of Judge Bliss all courts had adjourned. Word was sent to Judge Allen at the cemetery but it was two hours before he reached the courtroom
 The verdict hung, it is declared, on Mrs. Patterson's trip to Europe with another man after she had married Patterson. Whether this trip was taken with her husbands knowledge and con sent after she had received $500 from the man with whom she went as she or whether she had with held from Patterson the true nature of the trip, as the state contended, was the cardinal subject. it is said, with which most of the jurors debate dealt.
 The jurors accepted Mrs. Pattersons story of the shooting, that she had fred after her husband had knocked her to the ground.
 Mrs Patterson spent a restless night while the jurors voted From her cell window she could look across at the jury room and as long as the lights were burning she kept her eyes fixed on the spot where 12S men were delib- erating over her fate.
 This morning her composure returu- ed. She sat calmly in her cell talk ing with members of her family and a few newspaper men, but only in the most indirect way spoke of what might be in store for her.
 As the Jurors passed by the jail % breakfast Mrs. Patterson pressed her faco against the windowpane and open ing the window she exclaimed. "Oh, dear men!'
 As the hours dragged on her conf- dence increased but she said to the matron My knees are so weak that I do not believe I could walk over to the court room."
 She found strength. however. when she was called to hear the verdict tha, set her free and she was gay and strong thereafter. -N. ~ s-