Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-27
MRS, PATTERSON
ACTS OUT Scene
Of The MURDER
illustrates How She
Fired Fatal Shots
Sensational Trial At
tracts Attention.

DENVER, Nov. 81 -Crouched on
one knee on the court room floor,
with Special Prosecutor Horace G.
Benson standing over her, his right
arm poised for a blow-the attitude
in which she had testified her hus-
band was when she fired the shot
that took his life-Gertrude Gibson
Patterson today re-enacted before
the jury the scenes of the moment
that brought her to trial for h
life.
1t was near the close of long
ordeal of crcss-eXamination.
And he swung his right arm for
another blow?" asked the prosecu-
tor.
Yes, yes-I don't know how
many times.
And you shot him in the back.
That was all. A little shudder
ran over the crowded court room.
The witness resumed the stand The
cross-eXamination began anew.
Against Mrs. Patterson's version
Of the shooting, the state is content
with the testimony of the physic-
ians who performed the autopsy
and the mute evidence of the dead
mans clothes, thrown in heap in
front of the witness chair.
Both show that the bullets en-
tered his back. One went through
his right shoulder and the other
through his heart.
Just before Mrs. Patterson had
asked to show how the shooting
;Lad occurred, the state placed be-
he the jury its version CT how
Ratterson met his death.
when your husband told YOU
positively that he would not dis
miss his alienation suit against
Emil W. Strouse didn't you say, ]
told you Saturday that if you
wouldn't that I'd kill you, and
didn't he start to run and didn
you shoot him in the back, anC
while he was on his hands ant
knees before you, crying Oh my
God, my God didn't you put The
muzzle of your gun within few
inches of this coat that he VIZ
wearing and shot him through the
hearth"
And Mr.. Benson thrust almost il
her face the coat her husband wore
at his death, his fingers on one o
the powder burned holes in th'
back.
She did not shrink.
mo, sir; no, sir; that is a lie,
she replied.
Prosecutor Benson ended hi
cross-examination and turned tn
witness over to her counsel, o.
Hilton, for redirect examination
Mr.. Hilton took up almost immedi
ately her alleged relations wit
Emil Strouss, the millionaire cloth
ing manufacturer of Chicago,
point avoided by the defense on d
rect examination and brought ou
by the prosecution on cross-exam
nation.
"How did you meet Nj
Strouss?" he asked.
II was visiting in Chicago an
was asked to dine with Mrs. =.
Weller. Mr.. Strouss also was
guest"
"And you met him then for ii
first time?"
How long after that did you g
to Europe with him"
Nine or ten months after"
What did he say to you befol
you went?"
"He promised me"
go on, Mrs. Patterson; sta
briefly what took place.
"Mr. Strouss took me to boar
ing school in Paris. | stayed the
until March, when he came oy
and brought me back. We lived
the Grand Pacific hotel | as Mi
Gibson and he as Mr.. Strouss."
there?"
Until the following fall, VIII
he took me to Paris again and sa
he would marry me after ! HI
finished school He promised |
month in and month out. Wh
ave came back to Chicago he to-
ne to the Stratford hotel and
troduced me to his friends as
wife,
Mr.. Hilton took up the matter
the letters written by Mrs. Patti
son to her husband. EXplaini
the writing of these letters
said:
II tried to get along with
Patterson. He said | was mean
him. / never felt any malice
ward him for the way he h
treated me-iust tried to
along" and Mrs. Patterson laid
head down on her arm and sobb
Mrs Mary d. Campbell, prop
ter of dying and cleaning est
lishment in Chicago, followed NJ
Patterson on the stand. She C
roborated the defendants testimC
regarding two assaults on the p
of Patterson.
Miss Marie Gillen, tran
nurse, now living in Minneapo
Alinn who innk carn of pAtter