Show NOW NON DENIES PREVIOUS TESTIMONY firs S Story ory Is Somewhat at ShaRen K h by by Cr Cross ss Examination Examination- HER INSINCERITY i IS CLEARLY SHOWN Wrote Loving Letters to Husband While Planning Planning Planning Plan- Plan ning Divorce DENVER Nov 25 Prosecutor Prosecutor Benson Benson Benson Ben Ben- son compelled Gertrude Gibson Patterson Patter Patter- son on trial for forthe the alleged murder of her husband to reverse a reply which she made yesterday when the cross examination n of the defendant was resumed re reo re- re earned in Judge Allens Allen's court today The defendant admitted writing 3 letter let let- ter although she slie denied the fact yes yes- erday The letter lotter declared that if the elder Mrs Patterson would not pay her sons son's hospital bills biUs she could send him to Dunning an institution maintained by Cook county county- in which the city of Chicago Chi cago is situated and to which among other patients impoverished consumptives tives tWos are arc consigned by court order The Tho cross ross examination at this point reverted to alleged ne negotiations which the state asserts Mrs Patterson entered into for the the- purchase p of 1500 interest interest inter inter- est eat for her Jim husband in in a Chicago printing esta establishment t Witness repeated repeat repeat- ed her ber denial that she had conferred with ith members of Pattersons Patterson's family on the subject Used Initials of or Maiden Name Taking up pp p the purchase e of if f a trunk by Mrs Patterson on 00 which she had cau ell to be be imprinted the initials I U C G G. G G G. G Mr Benson BeDson inquired why she bad had not used her initials as a married woman f Because e Iwas expecting to secure sec a divorce and aDd lc resume ume my maiden name was the reply somewhat de de- What You Tou did this at the time you OU were writing endearing letters to your Jour husband telling him liim to take tako care of his health that you yon were comin coming to him within a month an and d declaring clarin that you must never nover be separated a again again- ain ain- not Dot even a ni night ht from your soul Yes HYI she said aid still defiantly A letter written by the defend defendant nt to her hus husband and two weeks before the tho shooting was vas read U Dear Chick Your Chick Your letter wa was wal cr very ery sweet I have hae just put an advert advertisement advertise alvertise e. e meat ment in the paper to sell erlI my amy hou house liouc e and my dog and und my say sealskin coat I have Ilav not Dot a n cent in my checking acc account I Iam Iam am sin worried very mu much b about money Continued on ou mining pa page I. I NOW DENIES NS CO Continued f from page 11 1 One by one everything goes goes my my my end endI end end- I prefer death to poverty po Is Dispelled When Gertrude Gibson Patterson re resumed resumed re- re I th the stand this morning moring to face the continuation of ot the remorseless Crl cross examination ex cx- of oC Special G. G Benson more than a a little lite of that haze of romance and anti suffering that has baa has softened the picture In wl which ch she she I is the most prominent figure had been ben dispelled Un Until t yesterday afternoon she had been beer to most of or those thole watching the progress of her trial for the shooting of her husband a R frail frai woman of appealing beauty who claims lainis to have been made the pawn of ol two men the one buying her girlhood and slid the other selling eling her on wifehood wifehood wifehood-on on the Installment On direct examination she had ha told a astory story of o abuse and cruelty and nd gross bestiality bestiality bes bes- on the thE part of her husband husband- She Se had told of hi his Incessant h demands that she shA get mone money for him from the millionaire million million- milon- milon aire admirer of of- her girlhood and of the brutal beatings that followed her refusal Sh She had declared that despite all this when he contracted tuberculosis she had nursed him had come with him to Denver Denyer r rand and bought a home here had endured more beatings and aud had shot him only to save saYe her life when hf he hf was waa making maing an unusually unusually un un- un- un usually vicious attack atack upon her and she Ehe thought really meant to kill kU her Defendants Defendant's Defendants Defendant's Letters Introduced Today when she resumed the stand stanc again to face the pitiless plies questioning under Under under un un- der which she had writhed for three terribly long hours yesterday the storks storks' of of her husbands husband's brutality had lost much of Us Is force Against it I the prosecution had Introduced her own letters written to her husband on dates subsequent b bj by only a few i.-few few days days to those on which she testified he had administered beatings so severe ere se that she hp was confined to her bed Those Thoe letters were full ful of or love lo f and en endearment endearment en- en dearment told tol him that ho he was the only cure UT for unhappiness declared that they must never pr n be s separated a again not again not ln-not not even i ifor for a single night night and and spoke poke of the bungalow bun bun- bunI I galow alow she the had fitted up for him with wih a alte little sleeping porch just jut off of my room rom Just be happy ChI Charlie rie h she wot wrote and arid the way to b be happy happ Is to know that you jou have got the best little loving helpmate 0 In the whole world Those Tose letters raised the unspoken ques ques- tim tion ton How blow could she ShA li write in such a astrain astrain astrain strain with lh the bruises of his beatings still on her body and that question loomed large In the minds of many o of those thoSE who watched her on the witness stand toda today About her hel story of her trip abroad with will Emil EU W. W the millionaire clothing cloth cloth- coth- coth ing lug manufacturer of Chicago the th state had cast a doubt The trip she had ha t tes tes- s- s had iad been made at the solicitation of her husband huband to whom she had given 1500 she had received from Crom By direct h interrogation and by innuendo Special Prosecutor tor Ren Benson on y placed place before the Jury jur the theory that tha Patterson was ignorant of or the true source of the money moey that he lie had received behaving believing be be- having lieving it I to come ome from an inheritance that he had been led to believe beleve that she was accompanying who ho had sen sent her abroad as a girl to learn lear French to assist him In a wa way because her knowledge of the language would be o ovalue of value to him in purchasing goods he go goan got gotan ot otan an inkling of the tru trues state of affairs and sent her a telegram before she sailed beg begging ng her to come back bark an anti and that after he learned leared that she was nol not traveling under her own name he wrote to 10 lien her that tha If she sho did not return immediately he I would follow her and kill kil he her I and too Admits Receiving Telegram Mrs Patterson Paterson admitted rEc receiving the telegram before she sailed saied Of the letter teler hp he hp sent after her lien she he had her story declaring it i to lobe be one of the many times he hp had threatened her with death tinder th the interpretation placed upon I Iby it I by the state It appeared in an entirely different l light the the ht the natural outburst o oan or of oran an au 3 indignant and outraged husband and and some of oC that impression remained remainEd today todY Tile The Impression that as a 1 girl of 16 16 she had Te been sent abroad by h s to be educated to become his wIfe antI and that a n afew afew few Cew months later h when n he brought her lien herback herback back to Chicago she had been betrayed d dunder under promise of was u-as rudely rudel shaken SIte She admitted ted when she first firs frt went abroad with he lie exercised the privileges of a I husband and that he lie had been a frequent visitor during the three months previous to their sailing t at which time tinie she wa was a guest at a I fashionable fash fash- hotel In iii Chicago How tho the daughter of a mine engineer in a little I Illinois town could afford aford to sta stay at audi suel suela audia a I place was left lef to the imagination o othe of I the jury jun |