The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25

to buy property.
 The testimony at this point took on character which was greeted with a silence in the court room. It dealt with
 the marital life of husband and wife. After reaching Denver witness said her husband pursued her with demands that sine secure money from Strouss. Once
 she declared, the Chicago man sent her check for S250 without comment. Again Patterson demanded $50 which he as-
 serted he had lost playing poker. She said she filed suit for divorce, charging extreme and repeated cruelty When her husband was notified of the
 suit she said, he remarked I'm going to have $10,Ooo out of this or I'm going to have blood" Coming to the actual homicide and
 the events immediately preceding it, Mrs.
 Patterson said that on the Saturday
 night before the killing she was seated
 on the porch of her home with George
 w. Strain. Patterson was seen approach ing and she went inside Later she saw her husband with his hands in the air. T called to him and he answered, This man has got a gun on me, sne salu We walked away together and present. ly sat down."
 Continuing she said: Soon my brother and Strain came along The gun was pointed at my nus band My husband said, guess I'll pretend to have a hemorrhage,' which he did On the way home in street car
 he feigned another. He returned to the hospital"
 "On leaving he said, Call me up to- morrow and we'll talk it over. We parted and borrowed Strains re- yolver because I was afraid of Patter- son. On Sunday I was i'll and could not keep my engagement with Patterson, put Monday. the day of the shooting. l had drug clerk to call him up. We met that morning. Why don't you withdraw this divorce suit and sign that deed for
 me, and I'll withdraw the suit against Strouss and come home he said '"Then he asked me for $20, saying he had lost that sum at poker and was three | weeks behind in his board told him I would not sign anything "You recall anything in particular stranger" asked Attorney Hilton. "Yes, we had walked on from the Peck school, where we met because Chic said | 1t was too public" said Mrs. Patterson. | q noticed it was something strange. | There was a man following "Who was it?'' "It was d couple who reached us soon.' | Continuing, she said: | "Ie persisted, You will sign or I'll choke the life out of you He seized me by the throat and by the shoulders. | I screamed and he let me go. He pulled | a clipping from his pocket and asked
 me, Have you seen this?' He handed | me the reprint"
 what was it, Attorney Hilton asked. l Ut was about a suit for $25,000 dam ages which MT. Patterson had filed 1 against Mr. Strouss for alienation" | ''Did MT. Patterson say anything then?' | .'Yes, he said he would drop the suit | if I would deed the bungalow to him 1 and turn my bank stock over to him and drop the divorce suit. He then struck me a blow in the face and I staggered
 back" witness testified. l what took place then?" | "He then struck me again and knocked
 me to the ground and kicked me-" | ''What then?"
 i 1T was struggling to my feet and l he was kicking me; his face was dis
 torted, but I managed to get to my l knees"
 And then?''
 q opened my bag and got out my re. volver and fired"
 How many times?"
 l T don't know"
 Do you recall anything after that?"
 Not until I awoke in jail the nex day"
 Witness was turned over to the stat for cross examination.