Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-28
PROSECUTOR OF MRS. PATTER-
SON QUOTES kiPLINo POETRY
TO JURY.
LAST WITNESS HEARD
AND CASE NEAR JURY
mrs. Patterson Near Collapse When
Courts Instructions Are Read-Pros-
ecutor Scores Defendant as Expert
sncsd Woman Of the World When
She Met Strouss.

Denver. Nov. 2S.-"A fool there was
and he made his prayer,
Even as you and I.
ITO a rag and bone and hank of
hair
I'VE called her the woman who did
not care,
but the fool. he called her his lady
fair
"And she shot him in the back
Was the way Prosecutor Benson OPP
der trial here this afternoon.
The prosecutor then took up the
early life of the defendant in an at
tempt to convince the jury that it was
no unsophisticated 16-year-old child
but an experienced woman who won
the devotion of Emil w. Strouss in
Chicago. He declared that the evil
6ence showed that Gertrude Gibson
met the Chicago clothing manufactur-
er and five or six years older than
Charles A. Patterson.
Last Witness Heard.
1t is regarded as probable that the
hands of the jury tonight.
The last witness was heard this af-
ternoon. Judge Allen instructed the
jury and Special Prosecutor Benson
began his opening arguments for the
state.
In his instructions Judge Allen gave
an exposition of the law defining MUIR
der in the first degree and second de-
gree and voluntary and involuntary
Mrs. Patterson Near Collapse.
During the reading of the instruc-
tions Mrs. Patterson's face was waxen
in its pallor. This appearance deepen
ed as Benson, laying stress on every
bit Of testimony which he believed told
against the defendant, in measured
tone addressed the jury.
When AIrs. Patterson entered the
court room her face was very pale and
deep circles under the eyes gave evil
dence of sleepless night.
Mrs. Mary Patterson. mother of the
slain man. being recalled. testified that
she had paid all the expenses attend
ant upon her sons illness excepting
those for two weeks.
New Witness Aids Defense.
The defense in the Patterson mut-
der case today placed on the stand the
eye witness to the shoot
ing of Charles A. Patterson by his
wife, Gertrude Gibson Patterson. an
of whose existence by At
torney Hilton created sensation.
He was Francis J. Easton, SO years
old, who testified he had come from
to appear in Mrs. Patter-
sons behalf He corroborated the
story told by Mrs. Patterson that she
had shot her husband after he had
struck her twice and knocked her
down and was standing over her.
On the morning of the shooting. he
said, he had gone to the sanatorium at
which Patterson was a patient. Some
distance from the sanatorium. he OBJ
served man and woman. apparently
quarreling. He said he saw the wom-
an, apparently reading a newspaper
clipping. She handed the clipping to
the man and as she did so he struck
her in the face following with sec
ond blow. that felled her. She strug-
gled to one knee. he said, and fired
twice, following with two more shots
after short pause.
On cross examination he said he
ness. placed on the stand by the state
running to the spot but had not gone
over, because he did not want to get
mixed up in the affair.
Special Prosecutor Benson, on cross
examination, questioned the witness
closely in regard to his life history.
"Do you know Emil w. Strouss?" he
asked.
II do not" was the reply
"Have you been back to the scene
of the shooting for the purpose of
testifying here?"
81 have. Once
On the fact that Easton made no
effort to go to Patterson after the
shooting and had made no report of
what he had seen, the prosecutor dwelt
with emphasis.
"Why didn't you tell the police that
YOU had seen murder committed?"
he asked.
"I wanted to keep my foot out of
it,"
Victims Mother q Wieness.
Easton was the last witness for the
defense and after his cross examina-
tion the state began its testimony in
rebuttal. its most important witness
being Mrs. Mary X. Patterson. When
she took the stand the prisoner covered
her eyes with her hand and did not
look up while the examination OF tho
witness was in progress.
The elder Mrs. Patterson, the pur-
pose Of whose testimony was to i'm
neoch the defendants testimony, told
of family conference Just prior to
her daughter laws trip to Europe.
regarding the advisability OF invest
Ing $500 In a printing establish
ment in Chicago for yoa;;s ps.ses=
son. The prisoner had denied that
such a conference took place.