The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
me to the ground and kicked me-.

ST opened my bag and got out the
revolver and fired"
How many times?"
81 don't know
more than once 20
yes"
well. how many times ?"
II don't know
do you remember anything after
that?''
NO"
"TilI when?"
mot until I awoke in jail the next
day."
witness here was turned over to the
state for cross examination.
Begins Her Story.
Danver. Col, Nov. 24.-At 3:45 o'clock
yesterday afternoon Gertrude Gibson
Patterson, charged with the murder
of her husband, Charles A. Patterson,
commenced the recital of her married
life by which her counsel hopes to free
her. An hour later the defense had
passed its most critical stage. The
expected objection of the state to the
introduction of her story had been
made, the point had been argued and
the court had ruled favorably upon its
admissibility.
Standing erect upon the platform that
holds the witness chair-a trim, at
tractive little figure in her neat blue
suit-Mrs. Patterson slipped quietly into
her seat and in a low. but distinct
tone, began her story. She told of her
marriage to Patterson at Carmel by
the Sea, Cal, in September, 1908 after
a three months acquaintance and OF
her return to Chicago soon after
In November, she declared, Patter-
son began to make incessant demands
for money, which she was unable to
give him.
zone day he said to me- she told
the jury, leaning forward in her chair,
I know how to fix it so we neither
Lee xxvfT1 hox r.
down to Georges place "a Chicago
resort). An attractive girl like you
can get lots of money. l don't care
what you do so long as l am in on IT,
Some time afterward, Mrs. Pat
terson went on, "dr. Patterson came
to me and asked me to make prop
osition to Emil w. Strouss. of whose
Friendship for me he knew He SAID
You tell StrousS to rent an apartment
and live with you as his wife and have
me live under the same roof and en-
joy the same privileges 1 ordered
him from the flat and he gave me my
first beating, from which I was in bed
for two days"
She Told StFouss.
Then Mrs Patterson told the jury
how she had met StrouSS casually on
the street and had told him of the I'M
happiness of her married life.
He said he pitied me- Mrs. Patter-
son continued, land that he was going
to Europe and wished he could take
me with him. l told Mr.. Patterson
and he said, Tell Strouss he can take
you to Europe with him if he gives
me $780,. And when I refused he
flew at me and called me vile names
Tell the jury just what he said, |
her, but she sat silent and looked ap- |
pealingly at her counsel.
Did he call you a bad woman? ?"
Mr. Hilton asked.
1T was a vile name"
In this encounter with her husband /!
Mrs. Patterson said he tried to throw
her in a CRATE fire and beat her.
After this experience, Mrs. Patter-
son continued, she again saw Strouss
and told him what had happened and !
he agreed to give Patterson the $1,000 /
and take her to Europe with him, pro- |
vided Patterson gave him written |
statement, clearing him of blame in
the matter.
Patterson continued. land arranged to
meet him at the bank, where l gave
him the $1,000, which he deposited to
his credit
statement that Strouss wanted. she
said he called Strouss a name and re-
fused to give it to her.
Then Mrs. Patterson described how
Patterson had taken her to the train
when she was to leave for her trip |
abroad with Strouss and said she met
Strouss on board the steamer in New
York
from her husband.
81 have about come to the conclusion
that you don't intend to come back to
me- she said the letter read, 'and if
you don't return at once IN follow you
Gave Her $4,000.
'I showed the letter to Strouss,'' said
Mrs. Patterson, and he gave me $4,000
and sent me back on the next steamer.
l have never seen him since
On her return to Chicago, she said,
Patterson met her at the train.
He asked her how much money she
had brought back and when she told
him she had brought none back and
asked him what he had done with the
81, 500. he flew into rage and, she said
beat her.
quarrels and beatings that arose from her
refusal to sell her electric automobile
and give the money to Patterson To two
Of these, she said, there was q witness,
street, Chicago, who lived near the Pat
terson home Mrs. Campbell. it is said,
is here to testify in Mrs. Patte-son's be-
It was here that Special Prosecutor
Horace G. Benson interrupted Mrs. Pat
terson's narrative with his objection to
the admission of such testimony After
was rendered, court was adj
journed for the day
outlining the story Mrs. Patterson is to
tell on the stand, the defendants counsel,
in his opening statement, declared that
the defense would show that Mrs Pat
terson had fired the shots that killed her
after he had struck her twice
and had knocked her down and kicked
her as she fell, and that she had shot !
while she was on her knees struggling to
get to her feet This, he declared, would /
be shown by an eye witness to the en-
tire affair His statement created de-
sided sensation, as the only eye witness
10 the affair heretofore known is A. B. i.
Shr1erart carnenter- vrhn testified for