Show STARTLING STORY OF LOVE LOVEIS OY AND BETRAYAL V S V IS J TOLD BY ACCUSED MRS PATTERSON Colo Cob Nov IS Gertrude Certrude Gertrude Gibson ibson Patterson who will be placed on trial ilal next Monday i on a charge of murdering murder murder- Ing ng her huab husband nd Charles A. A Patterson haS baa as written a remarkable biography for tor time 10 use of ot her attorney O. O N. N Hilton in which which site she acc accuses ses Emil the mil mil- cloUting clothing manufacturer of ot Chi cago ago of ot 1 haying ruined her life and of ot having laving bribed Patterson to marry her She he and she avers lived together together to- to gether ether aV as man and wife for tor five 3 years ears Excerpts of ot this story of ot love and tragedy made public late yesterday are characterized by Attorney Hilton as being beings as s black a a. record of ot betrayal as ever a aury jury ury listened to When seen at the jail Mrs Irs Patterson seemed much 1 lOss less concerned over ver over the fate a Colorado jury has In store tore for tor her than the effect her story will wl have on her bet mother Thought of Mother Oh Ohm she groaned It will wiil break my nty poor mothers mother's heart heart- to learn that I wa was never ever ma married to Emil Strauss nor di- di from 1 him lm The biography reads in part as fol- fol louts lolls When I was 16 IS years ears old I went with In ny my sister r Mrs aIrs Fantham and her hus- hus band and band We Vc stopped at the time Auditorium hotel hotel where here a fri friend nd of ot my nty sisters sister's introduced me mae to Mr Me Iro was tin o was was' much older than I for at that time me my hair hung in ina oa a a braid down my back back but but he was very kind He lie asked me rne to marry him but said sald that first I must go to school and study After many conferences with my people he finally took me to Paris Ills His Intentions always s seemed scented to be honor honor- able ble In III that city he he- provided pro rne me witha with a tutor arranged for my taking music lessons essons and arid departed almost Immediate Immediate- ly Iy y I was ws very happy and worked hard hardat hardt at t my studies as I I 5 wanted him to b be beroud proud roud of ot his future wife Mrs Patterson sa says s 's that they corresponded cor- cor responded for ifor five e ise months at the time end endot ot of which time responding to a cablegram cablegram cablegram cable cable- gram from front she returned to New Nework NewYork NewYork York ork and in company with her supposed supposed sup- sup posed benefactor went immediately immediate to Chicago where the biography states Mr r. r registered for tor- for both both of ot them themas as s Miss Gibson Gibsob and Mr Their rooms were adjoining Marriage Deferred It was here Mrs s. P Patterson declares began bean to ren renew sw w his promise of marriage but but- alwa always s 's he lie postponed the wedding dayI dayI day I was so miserable and unhappy although although al- al though lough he gave gate me everything the narrator narrator nar- nar ator exclaims for lor when when- V 1 thought I Iad had ad him he would put me off again gain until one ol day day he sent me rae back backo to o Paris T Tie Te e frill fall of ot the same year ear he came for or ire again This This- tim he told me that he e had bad given g en out the Information that we e were married and that everyone believed believed be- be eved It So we lle came again to Chicago we e stopped at the Stratford hotel in which Mr was financially InterEsted In- In V For five ears j-ears I lived with him hint as ass his s wife Ite He Introduced me me as 61 Mrs wherever whort we e went and to his friends lends No o one ever questioned that I Iwas Iwas was as Mrs least least of ot all m my peo- peo and pIe e and all that time I begged and pleaded and coaxed him hint to marry me I wanted so much to be like the time other women omen I knew kne Meets Patterson Gibson Miss as as she was then met ber future husband Charles A. A Patterson at a skating rink The They became great I friends and amid although she Valie told him her story he asKed her to become his wife and amid expressed a desire to meet Mr Strauss V After Arter his talk tall with Mr Patterson Mr came to me and said that he was glad that the biggest thing in life had bad come to me ine and he wanted m me meto meto to be happily happny married tho the narrator continues V V It wasn't until some seine little time afterward afterward afterward after after- ward that I IV learned that I had been made ma do the dupe of ot two men Imagine my feelings I was crazed with sorrow the biography says sas had lied given Patterson 1500 which cs Mrs Patterson supposed was a wedding pre present ent DurIng DurIng During Dur Dur- ing a a. quarrel with her husband eho he as asserts asserts asserts as- as that she learned that this was the sum um given Patterson for for making her his wife Thereafter she he declares life was one lon long humiliation filled with Patterson's Pattersons Pattersons Patterson's Pattersons Patterson's Patter Patter- sons son's attempts to make her secure money from Strouse According to her story Patterson even proposed that she site become an Inmate of ot Georges place in Chi Chicago cago cage She states that one erie of ot Patterson's Pattersons Pattersons Patterson's Patter Patter- sons son's schemes was that sh she should Inveigle in inveigle In- In her old admirer into a compromising compromising compro compro- position bv by means of which he might be blackmailed Accidentally meeting one day she told story of her married life He expressed sorrow and Invited her to take a trip to Europe with him she as asserts asserts asserts as- as but she Her husband however she says was delighted at the Invitation and insisted upon her liar going threatening to kill k her If It she did not riot Constant Demand for Money The True sto story goes goe on to state that Patterson Patterson Patterson Pat Pat- terson demanded 1500 front from which the latter turned over to Mrs Patterson Patterson Pat Pat- terson nhe but Patterson ft upon ar receiving c kl wt It from her declined e to write an acknowledgment acknowledgment which Strauss desired it is al alleged alleged al- al to protect himself When abroad I. I Patterson Insisted on more money V which the narra narra- tive declares declined r to o furnish and ShUn et r sent his companion pa back c to the United States She says that he gave her per per- with the Injunction that her husband be kept in ignorance of ot the fact V The latter hatter upon her return asked berhow her ber how much money she had and flew fiew Into a rage when she replied that she had none Finally he bullied and threatened her into admitting that she had which he took The jail mail mall carrier is overburdened with letters of sympathy and encouragement encouragement encouragement encourage encourage- ment which are being sent to Mrs Patterson Patterson Pat Pat- terson from frou-d all an qu quarters Her mother Is expected here tomorrow front from Sandoval Ill to remain with her during the trial Attorney y Hilton W declares that k he has reo recovered P Pattersons Patterson's Dank bank k book showIng showing show show- In ing that he deposited 1500 1500 to his own credit on the day of ot his marriage to Gertrude Gibson SIrs Mrs Patterson shot her husband while the they were walking together in a suburb on the morning of September 25 25 29 last The beauty of ot the prisoner and her tragic fe stor story promise to make the trial one of the most clo closely ely watched in the recent history of ot the tho Denver courts |