Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-19
PATTERSON TRIAL BEGINS TOMORROW
 EIC|TEs INTEREST
His Murder Following the Dis grace CIouded Husbands
 Life of Promise
STORY OF THE TRAGEDY

| DENVER, Colo. Nov. lS.-Great in- terest is manifested here in the case of Mrs. Gertrude c. Paterson. the opening of whose trial upon the charge of having murdered her hus- hand. Charles 4. Patterson on Sep tember 25 last, is set for next Mon day. in the criminal court of this city. ! Both the state and the defense are reported 10 be ready for the trial and | it is expected that the proceedings i will be unusually interesting and sen sational
 ] The tragic death of Charles A. ' Patterson, formerly a promising young
 man with a bright mind and fine athletic record. but. at the time of ! his death 6 physical wreck suffering from tuberculosis, was the culmina- ' tion of several years of misery owing i to domestic infehcity. Patterson came from a good family. His mother
 is the principal of one Of Chicagos public schools and his brother, Harry ! s. Patterson, Is one of the counsel for
 the International Harvester company. Charles A. Patterson was a high
 school student in 1907 and stood well ' in his studies besides being one of ! the crack athletes of the school. While Toiler-racing in the winter of that year, when he won the championship of Illinois, Charles became acquainted with Gertrude Gibson. a handsome and attractive girl a few years older
 than he. It seemed to be a case of mutual love at first sight, although | later events had a strong tendency
 to make this match appear in a some | .lg suhf Ts hA rfr1 i who proposed marriage and the hoy
 was only too willing to accept tine pro posal. They were married in Chicago | in 1908 and for willie seemed to live ! happily in a handsomely furnished | fiat on the South Side.
 1 The marital happiness, however, did not last long. Confessions which his young wife was said to have made to him concerning her former relations ' to Emil w. Strouss, head of tiie firm of Strouss, Eisendrath & Co, clothing manufacturers in Chicago, changed young Patterson's life from happiness | to misery. He began to suspect that ' his wife, although she had tried 10 minimize her guilt in her confessions and had asserted that she had com pletely severed her relations with Strouss. was not true to him, but con.
 tiuued her intercourse with Strouss i and received money from the latter. Only a few months after her mar. riage to Patterson Gertrude Patterson left herr home and went to Europe, where, 1t is said, she tray eled several months with MT. StrOuss. During her
 absence Patterson had an attack oi pneumonia, which left him an invalid,
 suffering rom tuberculosis. He was
 not strong character and. though
 knowing his wlfe's past and realizing
 that be had ample cause for jealousy,
 hc continued to love her and would have willingly condoued all her pas. offences, had sine reformed, and re.
 niained true to him. Partly on account
 of his phy ysiCal condition, partly be cause Of the unrest and unhappiness
 which poisoned his life the young
 man, who was only twenty-siX years
 Of age, was unable 10 work and his
 mother and his brother supported
 him.
 When Gertrude Patterson returned
 from Europe. her husband took her
 back and for a while peace seemed 10
 be rciguiug in their house. Patterson s
 health, however, failed so rapidly
 hat he went 10 Denver, accompanied
 by his wife. Tine change Of climate
 only temporarily bcRltted Patterson
 condition. After SIX or seven months he became SO III that be entered a
 sanitariuu for cOusumptiycs- lis
 wife, on September i0 filed a suit 10! divorce against him in Denver. charg
 ing cruelty and about week later
 Patterson filed a suit in ChicasC
 against StTouss, asking S25.0OG dam ages for alienatinE his wilc's alice
 jiOns.
 On the afternoon of September 2,
 last Mrs Patterson called al the san
 itarium and asked for an interview , with her husband, hoping 10 induce . him to withdraw his sui againsi Strouss They took q walk in the sub urb nf MOntciaiT and during an alter cation Mrs. Patterson. it is charged shot and killed her husband with ; revolver. firing two bullets in his bael She was arrested and, upon the test mOny of several witnesses formalll charged with murder. When ar raigned she pleaded not guilty ant
 claimed that she had fired the shot in self defence.
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