The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-22
PATTERSON JURY
SOON COMPLETED
Men Who Will Decide Case
..- Are All Married.
LETTERS WILL PLAY A PART
discriminating Documents VIII Be
Read in Court-Defendant Cool
as on Former Occasion and APP
parentIyy Indifferent to Proceed
inEs-ReIatives Not Present.

Denver, Nov 21.-The jury that will try
Mrs. Gertrude Patterson for the murder
of her husband was completed and for
mally sworn this evening, and court then
adjourned until tomorrow.
Each side used thirteen peremptory
challenges before a jury was secured.
The twelve men are all married, and
half of them have children. Their ages
range from twenty-seven to forty-four
years. 1t was the evident intention
throughout of the defense to get as many
young men as possible on the jury.
The following are the men who will
hear the evidence beginning tomorrow
morning:
Charles r. Bosworth. twenty-seven,
real estate agent; married.
Fay S. Perry, thirty, assayer; married.
William II. Gartner, thirty-nine real
estate; married, seven children.
John P. Doyle, thirty three, hat dealer;
married, four children.
John Dimlar, barber, thirty-hve; mar
ried.
John L. Brubaker, salesman, thirty;
married. two children.
| Stafford Z. Beckett, thirty-six, grocery;
married.
Francis ]. Crane. twenty-eight. mining
engineer; married.
Harvey W. Bird, thirty-four, produce
broker; married, one daughter.
! NJ c. Kinkel, forty-one. manager Colo
RADIO Sheet Metal Works; married, two
children.
Charles G. Oppenhnder. forty-rour, gro
Ger; married.
| James J. Flint. thirty-eight. president
| Flint-LomaX Electric and Manufacturing
Company: married, four children.
Dressed ns Day Before.
I Mrs. Patterson was in court to-day,
dressed exactly like she was yesterday.
Her new dress, a blue one, which she
purchased just before she killed her hus-
band. she says. is the first new dress
she has had in three years She was
Just as indifferent to-day as she appear
ed yesterday, and from her demeanor II
could not be told that she was interested
in the proceedings in any way. Her par
ents and her brother, brother-in-law and
she sat all day alone.
The prosecution expects TO offer a num-
her of letters from Patterson.
What the prosecutor believes is the
strongest letter of all was the last writ
ten by Patterson to his brother. 1t was
addressed to Perry" in Chicago and
was dated Saturday September y. two
/ days before the tragedy. It reads, in
part:
My wife has been asking me to come
home at once and declaring she would
withdraw her divorce suit II 1 did so. I
told her my intentions in going after
that in Chicago. She swore she would
kill me il I did, as she claimed 1t was
all her fault; that she begged from the
man and practically forced him to send
her money. You know money is her god,
and she admits she did wrong, but claims
no wrong on the mans part.
Called on FatefuI Day.
"She was here several times this week
trying to have me g<e her an answer
and promised would give her one on
Monday.
She swears II fight this man she will
perjure her very soul to save him. as she
lays the whole blame on herself. 1 am
just telling you what she is doing and
saying to me-
This letter is signed Chick" Patter-
sons nickname. The Monday referred to
is the date of the tragedy.
Other letters to his brother and mother
tell of threats made against his life by
his wife and by an unnamed man. The
State will also probably introduce Pat
terson's private diary to counteract Mrs.
Patters on's charges of cruel treatment.
The diary is full of expressions of love
and tenderness.