Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-18
WOMAN INDUCED
TO WE'D ANOTHER
Mrs. Patterson Pens Alleged
Biography for Use of Den
yer Counsel.
TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER
Charges Having Been Tricked by
Emil Strouss, Wealthy Chi
cago Merchant

Denver, Col, Nov. 1S.-Gertrude
Gibson Patterson, who will be plac-
ed on trial next Monday on the
charge of numbering her husband,
Charles A Patterson, has given out
what she said was a sketch of her
life.
Mrs. Patterson seemed less con-
cerned over the fate jury may have
in store for her than over the effect
her story will have on her mother.
She said that it would break her
mothers heart to learn she was nev-
er married to Emil Strouss. a Chi
cago clothing manufacturer, whom
she has heretofore mentioned as hav-
ing been blackmailed by her hus-
band.
Mrs. Patterson says that when she
was 16 years old she went with her
sister. Mrs. Farnham. to Chicago,
where a friend of the father intro
duced her to Strouss. She says he
asked her to marry him, but said
that first she should study. He sent
her to Paris.
STROUSS CABLES FOR HER
Mrs. Patterson says that five
months later, responding to a cable
gram from Strouss, she returned to
New York, and. in company with her
supposed benefactor, went immed-
lately to Chicago, where, the biogra-
ply states, Mr.. Strouss registered
for both of them as Miss Gibson
and Mr.. Strouss." Their rooms
were adjoining. 1t was here, Mrs.
Patterson declares, Strouss began to
renew his promise of marriage, but
always he postponed the wedding
day Later, she says, he sent her
back to Paris.
THE fall of the same year he came
for me again." she continues. This
time he told me that he had given
out the information that we were
married and that every one believed
IT. So we came again to Chicago,
where we stopped at the Stratford
hotel. For five years 1 lived with
him as his wife,
Miss Gibson, as she was then, met
Charles A. Patterson at a skating
rink. Although she told him her
story, he asked her to become his
wife and expressed a desire to meet
Mr.. Strouss.
ALLEGES HUSBAND WAS BOUGHT.
After his talk with Mr.. Patter-
son Mr.. Strouss came to me and said
that he was glad that the biggest
thing in life had come to me and he
wanted me to be happily married" I"
the narrator continued. ''It wasn't
until some little time afterward that
1 learned that / had been made the
dupe of two men. Imagine my feel
ings. l was crazed with SORROW"
Strouss, the biographer says, had
given Patterson 81 500, which Mrs
Patterson supposed was a wedding
present. During a quarrel with her
husband she asserts that she learned
that this was the sum given Patter-
son for making her his wife. There
after, she declares, life was one long
humiliation, filled with Patterson's
attempts to make her secure money
from Strouss.
FORCED INTO EUROPEAN TRIP.
Accidentally meeting Strouss one
day, she says, she told the story of
her married life. He expressed sor-
row and invited her to take a trip
to Europe with him, she asserts, but
she refused. Her husband, however,
she says, was delighted at the invi-
tation and insisted upon her going,
threatening to kill her IL she did
not
The story goes on to say Patterson
demanded $1,000 from Strouss
which the latter turned over to Mrs.
Patterson.
While abroad Patterson insisted
on more money, which StrOuss, the
narrative declares, declined 10 fur
nish and sent his companion back
to the United States. She says that
he gave her 50, 900 with the injunc-
tion that her husband be kept In
ignorance Of the fact.