The evening world., 1894-05-25
Mrs Fitzgerald Unmoved by the
Recital of Her Crime.
jsnltress ShackIady Tells Of the
Shooting Of Mrs. Pearsall.
How the Accused Woman Watched
for Her Alleged Rival.


iaR, when Assistant District-Attorney
mernon M. Davis opened the trial for
a,urder before the jury and Judge
Towing in Part ii. of the Court Of
aaeneral Sessions.
mMrs. Fitzgerald maintained her stoical
tosmeanor. She is exceedingly cranky"
piith her lawyers, Friend & House, her
fiSusin, James w. Mclaughlin, and her
sister, Mrs. MCGOWAN. To friends who
bone and take her hand in encourage
enent she Is cold, but complaisant.
sometim $ she appears to be exalted,
Ind to imagine that she is receiving
much distinction. bearing out the report
of Drs. Macdonald and Flint sent by
District-Attorn Nicoll to examine her.
They reported that she was insane
when she killed Mrs. Carrie Pearsall.
and is still insane.
Judge Marines commission that re-
ported that she was sane was confirmed
by one physician and two business men.
Big Capt. Pickett. of the Eighty eighth
street station, bent over Mrs. Fitz-
geralds chair and placed upon Prosecu-
tor Daviss table beyond the 32-calibre
revolver with which she took the life
OF the woman she suspected OF alienat-
Ing her husbands affections.
As 1t lay there Mrs. Fitzgerald gazed
at in half curiously, but showed no
Mr., Davis told the story of how she
lay in wait for Mrs. Pearsall in a
East Eghty.sixth @ G 1ne street tn Till MRS MTs Pear
sail returned to her home above, ana
shot her on the afternoon of Oct. 2.
Mrs. Sarah shacklady,- who was the
tanitress. Of the fats 515 and bl7 East
Eighty-sixth street, where the tragedy
OCCURRED WAS the the FIRST witness 1o,n w
and their two daughters occupied the
top fiat at 5lo. three flights up -
ssrfle ocacf Iahs hs She 3aeGr 3asReG Il Sf Mrs
sail lived there, and on being told that
sit In Mrs. Shackladys front window to
watch for Mrs. Pearsall.
81 think Mrs; Pearsall will follow my
husband this afternoon said Mrs. F1tz-
patrick. according to the witness,
Mrs. Shacklady told her she could see
nothing there. but might make obserya-
which was empty. There she waited
for three hours. Then Mrs. Pearsall
came. She had no sooner entered the
shots sounded upon Mrs. shacklady's
II stayed in the vacant fiat a few few
"'oh, am / crazy? want to see Mrs.
Pearsall, l think, she is going to my
husbands office want to see her' ana ana
widows hat so she won't know me. I
sdon't want to do anything in my house
Of aua my Sen fSs1 s sns ef her.
She wore veil over her face, said the
witness. l., suo.,,.
well. not very neat nor very careless.
Her clothing was nice"
Mrs. Sha eklady reported to the neigh
bors that a lady was waiting In the va
ynt nat. At about o'clock she saw Mrs
70 rsall enter. Then she heard three
II H., and little boy said somebody had
shot.
went into SIS by the basement SS door
Serald standing in the hall and Mrs
sail yng sn 'es opaned the sab tns @t
% heard i another bang. When I
n the hall, about five feet inside was
FitzSerald and Mrs; Pea Pearsail at at
i faiHi did it.
. ran downstairss and out into tc 9TH the
coming out at the basement. door.
'ay. She looked crazy. Her Her eyes
a; / did / was so excited.
w hen l came to l was on the roof
5l7," continued Mrs; shacklady. u
,w how ! got there. / remember that
S. Fitzgerald did say, as she came out
4 II II shot her / did 1t in elf-defense' ;
Ines Before that day. A Few days be;
fre she called at my house. She told
ke she had hired a detective, and he
isd seen Mrs. Pearsall and Mr.. Fitz.
early in the Summer I sat at my
Nwindow when strange lady came and
me i ME- earsa wns saS yes s0ms but
Nm" WI Wife s; Vas away. She said: We'll
Mr.. Pearsall had better tier 60 to the eoun, m
try after he" fpr t she gr, Is May
as II her heart would break because
her mother had stayed away all night, !,
Mrs Fitzgerald told me that she mad
had nine children, five of whom were
,'she said her husband had been go
ing on for twelve years, that hGr NE IRE
Pearsall had been al hotel as Mr. and
Mrs. Pearsall. That her husband
thought more of that woman than or
his wife. and that she must break up
her home and get divorce. had seen
= seii &c 6sr. what vii, nv moor children do >,
exclaimed Mrs. Fitzgerald.
n Mrs. ShGcklady evidently told the
truth when she said she was sorry for
Mrs. Fitzgerald for she wept as the
. Mrs Doyle's great orbs We're suffused:
too. and there was dew in the eyes OF
several of the jurors. but Mrs. Fitzger-
AIDS face was impasslve.
Police SerGt. William Dean, OF the
Eighty-eighth street station, testified
that Mrs. Fitzgerald entered the station
the afternoon of Oct. ., walked rap
idly to the desk much excited, and en-
tered the iron gate. She had bag In
one hand and pistol In another Wit
ness was frightened and called to Sergt'
Ehire who was near:
"Getu p, quick, and get that pistol.
Shire Jumped. but he woman laid 1t on
the desk. saying quietly:
"I shot that woman. l shot her
"I led her into the Captains room.
did not know what had happened" said
Dean. "She stared up at me and
asked her:
"'Dont you know me. Mrs. Fitzger
aid? Don't you know Rillv Dean?
'Oh, yes she said wearily. | left hei
alone, for n policeman came in and re-
ported that a woman had been shot
when l returned Mrs Fitzerald sal
nolding her head in her hands. She
mumbled
dren. Oh, God"
'I tried to recall her to her girhoot
days. / ha known her nearly all hel