Show Sf STATE A IE DEMANDS j DEATH PENALTY t Will Endeavor to Convict Mrs t Patterson of Premeditated Murder I A cr nver Nov 20 P O.-P pro progress ress In Into to tho selection of at a Jury Jun marked the first of at the trial of oC Gertrude Patterson Kl i char charged cd with the murder of ot her bus- bus Pl Charles A. A Patterson which be- be IVan an in In Iii the tho district court before Judge today At the close of ot Georgc W Allen lIen court ourt with nineteen examined P twelve men pa passed sed for tor cause USo were In Inthe inthe the Jury Jur box and the state and the dc- dc each had exercised one of oC Its tense fifteen peremptory challenges The prospect 0 of securing a jury JUl b by the time limo l for tor I adjournment was declared to bo be boi by b both sides i hood good KI Little took tool place toda today to vary an tho time I fa J monotonous grind of examining tales tales- Imen men On only ono One point point time the question t f whether opposition to tho the death penI pen pen- I ally wa was ground for a challenge e for tor dId cause did cc counsel clash On this early carl P in the tho proceedings tho the court ruled Ina Ina in Mi a a Qualified n negative Later when Sic Sic- clai Prosecutor Horace G. G Benson put matter squarely to the court challenge chal- chal Ithe the thc fr lenge on this ground round was wag allowed Des Des- the fact that the state is asking the tho extreme l penalty for a 1 woman lit lit- tIe tic opposition to capital punishment I Itoda those examined feT vas as developed among todaY toda V Questions put to by counsel counsellor the Indicate Ifor lor the state were taken to or int intention to tr try to show that the lie of ot Patterson was WIS rc- rc n dilated and deliberate and that a of or murder in tho the first degree l 4 verdict with the death e th penalty penally will be C asked stress tre 5 was vas laid on the time tales tales- roanS Iman's flOSS to send end a woman to 4 g allows galios ff if It the evidence c warranted it Do you OU believe that under the law 11 n pert ons arc equal malo male or female I and would you rou OU be bc willing to impose I the thc death penalty penally upon this defendant readily as If you find her hor guilty as would upon a man man asked Special you I Benson of each cach BY Do you ou believe belloe In the tho law of oC self self- defense and do you believe a entitled to its Hs protection as well as as' as asa a man was one of or the questions put to b by Attorney O. O N N. Hilton Corthe for Cor forthe the time defense Significance was attached to another of his questions Should it appear that this defendant believed herself hersel at atthe the time In danger of oC death or great reat bodily Injury even een if tc It later latel appeared that she was wrong could you ou bring In a verdict of or acquittal acquit acquit- tal talon on the tho grounds of or self defense Time The name of or Emil millionaire clothing manufacturer of oC Chicago was brought Into the proceedings b by Special Special cial dat Prosecutor Benson who a asked led If It thc they were acquainted with I him |