The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
SAW HIM SHOT
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''I asked her who the man outside
was" declared the witness, land she
answered, He is my husband and he
wronged me-
When he asked her who she was and
where she lived and sought other in
formation, Shugart declared she re-
fused to talk
Cross examination by Attorney O.
n. Hilton for the defense failed to
shake Shugart's testimony on any
material point.
Previous to the examination of Shu-
CART, the state introduced witnesses to
substantiate its claim that the killing
of Patterson was premeditated.
Strains Story.
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 went armed
upon this occasion. because Mrs. Pat
terson had warned him of her hus-
bands violent temper. Patterson and
friend appeared at the house I'M
expectedly, he said, and Mrs. Patter-
son hurriedly went into the house
Patterson ordered him from the prem
Uses in a threatening manner, the wit
ness said, and he drew gun and
marched Patterson and his friend off
at the point of the revolver.
Strain told how Mrs. Patterson ran
after her husband and they went away
together and how, after her return,
she upbraided him for jeopardizing the
chances of success in her divorce ac-
ton. 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 Witnesses 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 and that he had
waited at spot near where the shoot
ing took place; that when Patterson
saw her he started to run away and
that later they walked off together.
Physicians who conducted the au-
topsy on 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.
First Said Patterson Did It.
DR.. Stephen D. Parsons was placed
on the stand as the next witness. His
testimony concerned itself with
newspaper clipping which he said he
found near Patterson'5 body after the
shooting, and which he stated he turn
The latter, who followed Dr. Parsons
in the witness chair, confirmed the
doctors statement, but he was pre-
scented to the defense for cross exam
ination without the clippings being
read to the jury.
The item is said to relate to the
suit which it is said Pat
terson purposed filing against Chi
cago millionaire. The sergeant testi-
fled that when he first asked Mrs
Patterson who did the shooting, she
declared that Patterson did it. Later
when he asked her how many shots
she fired she replied that she did not
know.
Prosecution Is Hampered.
A decided reversal of attitude on the
part of one of the witnesses and the
pered the prosecution today in the !
Patterson murder case.
Louis Schramm, gardener en-
Dloyed at the Hendrie home, before /
which the shooting occurred, and by |
whom the state expected to show |
converse ton between Mrs. Patterson
and her husband just before the shots
we're fired, is in Chicago out of the /
of the court, it was said, /
and Norah Brown. a maid in the Hen
1rie home at the time of the shoot
ng. and who, the state expected,
would tell of Mrs. Patterson's state
nent after she had shot Patterson, has
lot yet been found by the sheriff dep
tiles. The absence of these two wit
lesses. it was apparent, seriously dis
arranged the plans of Special Prose-
tutor Benson, who asked for recess
when these. witnesses failed to respond
o their names, shortly before the usual
line for the noon recess.