El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-28
EYE WITNESS To
PATTERSON KILLING
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seemed to be quarreling, he declared.
They turned at a street corner, he said.
and he proceeded straight along. When
he was some 300 feet or so away from
the couple, he looked back, he told the
jury, and saw the woman, apparently
reading newspaper clipping. She
handed the clipping TO the man and as
she did so, he struck her in the face
following 1t with a second blow that
felled her. She struggled to one knee,
he said, and fired twice in rapid sue
cession, following with two more shots
after a short pause. The man, fell and
the woman entered the grounds Of the
house in front Of which the shooting
had occurred through driveway near
On eros examination he said he had
seen A. B. Shugart, the eyewitness
placed on the stand by the state, run
ming to the spot, but had not gone over
to the body himself. having turned
down a street and taken a street car
back to the city, because, as he told
the jury. he did not want to get mixed
up in the affair.
Did Not See the Biting Episode.
In her story of the shooting Mrs.
Patterson had declared that a short
time before Patterson had struck her
the blows that led her to shoot, he had
sprung at her and bitten her on the
shoulder and she had screamed. The
witness denied having seen this oe-
currence, although, he admitted, he
must have been about IS feet behind
the couple at the time Mrs. Patterson
alleged that this had occurred, and
would have seen it If it had taken
place.
On the fact that Easton made no ef-
fort to go to Patterson after the shoot
ing and had made no report Of what
he had seen, the prosecutor dwelt with
emphasis
PattersOn's Mother Testifies.
Easton was the last witness for the
defence, and after his cross eXamina-
ton the state commenced its testimony
In rebuttal its most important witness
being Mrs. Mary K Patterson, the
mother Of the dead man, who sat op-
pOsite her daughter in law at the coun-
seTs table. When the elder woman
took the stand, the prisoner covered
her eyes with her hands, and did not
look up while the examination Of the
witness was In progress
The elder Mrs. Patterson, the purpose
Of whose testimony was to impeach
the defendants testimony on number
Of points, told Of a family conference
lust prior to her daughter in laws trim
garding the advisability Of investing
$500 in a printing establishment in
Chicago for young Patterson. The pTis-
oner had denied that such a conference
took place.
COntradicts Woman's Testimony.
The witness also declared that when
the son was i'll at her home, at time
when the Younger Mrs. Patterson had
declared Patterson made an assault
upon her the boy was so weak that
he had to be lifted in bed to be fed
and that he had been taken to the sani-
tarium on a stretcher-
Whenever the witness referred to her
daughter in law she called her "the
defendant" She contradicted the pris-
oner on a number Of other less impOr-
tan points.
When court adjourned yesterday
there was a DrosDect Of the case going
to the jury by Wednesday. The state
has finished its testimony in rebUttal
and it is declared by attorney Hilton
that the testimony in sur-rebuttal VIII
be brief.
The defence introduced letters writ
ten by Patterson to his wife. Mrs. Pat
terson buried her face in her arms and
rested her head on the table beside
her. She did not look Up until fully a
half hour after the subject had been
dropped.
COmpOsure Il Gone.
The cOmposure which marked her at
titude in the first days of the trial
has deserted her entirely. Apparently
Of cross examination. She has been a
Saturday.
newspaper photographers who took
the day of the shooting. They testi-
fled that they saw no marks on her
face.