Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-12-02
Pretty Woman Acquitted Of
the Murder Of Her Husband
Is Filled With Rage at Gen.
sure She Has Received.
TRAvEsTY DECLARES
PROSECUTOR BENSON
Attorney Says Scenes in That
Court Room Recalled stor-
les of the Arena in Rome
When the Mob Applauded.
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Denver, Dec. 2.--Tlitterly rcsentfat
against Denver and fte peopie, Ger
trudc Gibson Patterson. slayer OF her
husband. but reieared from tho
charge of murder BY a Jury In tho
criminal court here "Wednesday lnsi.
In on her way to her old home at
sandoval. III. She said she would
never return 20 Denver.
when Mrs. Patterson boarded q
burlington TRAIN for ~. Louis Hhe
was accompanied by her mother.
father. her sister. Mrs. Myrtle Farn-
ham; >. J. Hopper. detective. and
her brother. chaAes Gibson.
Horace a. Henson, the prosecuting
attorney. was outspokcn In condem-
nation of the acqulttal of Mrs. Pat
terson ana he declared u q traveEty
on American Justice and honor. M.
Benson said;
what do think Of the verdiotf
have stated that, In my opinion, IL
was ana il a tarvesty ON iusticr. and
as I heard the mob hurrah for kill
ing over shis acaulttai az the crlm-
ln0i court ! thought OF that far-off
long ago when some poor devil MUIR
dured another In the arena In Rome
and men ciapped their bands and
yelled and hurrahed and women
screamed with deiirht. The arena
swlms around him. he II gone. eva
ceased the inhyman shout which
halted the wretch who won. He
heard II, but ne needed not. hia mind
was with HIS heart. aud ina, was far
away
T'And I know n this roncourse OF
people at tho West side court could
have seen Chick. the eircady dying
man. shot N the back down npon
hla hands and knees. crying out. oh.
God, my 0Odr ~ she sent another
bullet crashing into his back nad
/ through his heart. they would have
stood petrified with horror. ana
would have forever damned a verdict
OF acuuittai as u sham, a farce.
moekcry. a travesty on justice and n
blot on the fair name OF the state
Of Colorado"
~ never said q word that was not
corrohorated in the record. and ! had
the record before me all the time
was speaking. Every charge l at
tered IL In evidence. Mrs Patterson
was proven immoral from the time
she was 10 years of age. She II 30
now. She has been at least guilty uf
immoral conduct for ~ years. and
she did not deny or dispute Il.
III the truth based upon that char
acter OF evidence. admitted by the
court as competent testimony and as
being o proper subject for argument,
II such truth and AIN argument based
on lt Ia brutal and inhuman eonducs.
then her own testimony makes me
stand convicted OF the charge OF
being brutal
~ the fact that sought this truth
as the objective and conviction as
the end. ~ the truth warranted II. u
brutal then I stand convicted,
"If to raise my voice In bitter de-
nunclation Of confessed perjury AZ
shown by the record is 30 convict
me OF brutal conduct. then 1 siaDd
convicted.
"if to tear the mask from the faco
uf faischood by the admission OF
their own witnesses. az shown by the
record. IL brutal and inhuman con-
duct. then I stand convicted.
"If 10 ask for Justice upon a rec-
ord which discloses a. my mind
villful deliberate. premeditated, ma
lcious murder Is wrong. then ! stand
convicted.
"In my opinion. is you would ask
the jurors what did Il. and they dared
to answer truthfulls. they could tell
you'