The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-23
SALT LAKE MANS STORY.
D. Margetts Gives New Phases of
the Affair.

There are very radically different
stories of the events Immediately sue
ceeding the Fisher Geertson shooting at
Ogden on Sunday told by persons who
were in DR.. Fishers rooms just after
the affair had occurred. The story
which has been published in the Salt
Lake papers, as sent down from Ogden,
is not the same, in some important par
ticulars, as that told last night by D.
Margetts of No. $50 South Second West
street. Mr.. Margetts, who is in the
employ of u. c. NJ. l. stores, and who
was the first man TO go into Dr.. Fish
er's rooms after the shooting. was in
Ogden TO attend the bail game.-between
the Ogden team and the Short Lines.
Prior to the game he was sitting on a
box in front of the Utah Loan & Trust
company building waiting for a car He
heard scuffie from the window just
above him, and after something heavy
had dropped to the floor he heard two
shots fired.
Il am certain it was not three Shots
said he last night. II heard two-Shots
and no more. ] rushed down to the
corner, where 1 saw several men, and
told them that some one ought TO GO
up. They did not seem to take me ser
iously, but asked me why l did not go
up. On telling them that / would if
they showed me the way, they did so.
Il met Miss Geertson at the door of
the vacant room on the left of the
offices.
What's the matter? 1 asked.
g Go in, go in, said she. Historically.
But what's the trouble 1 asked
again.
Go in and see him. she said, ex-
citedIy.
Her hat was off and she looked wild
and scared. She went into the hall as
l entered. On turning into the main
Office 1 saw DR.. Fisher coming toward
me with the gun in his right hand. 1t
was not lying on the floor in the mid
die Of the room, as has been said. ]
took hold of him, and as he was pale
and apparently weak, 1 asked him if he
was shot.
'' I guess So he replied
Il took him to the sofa in the second
room and began to undress him. Miss
Geertson had come back into the room.
! saw her go to a shelf in the corner
OF the main room and, apparently, TAX
ing bottle and go behind the curtain
hiding the laboratory. Suspecting
something wrong L left the doctor and,
going up, grabbed her.
." Don't do that 1 said, for l sus-
pected that she was going to commit
suicide.
'' oh. you couldn't stop me- said she.
so calmly and positively that / was
struck by the noticeable change in her |
demeanor.
II know. but don't do anything of
that kind, / said again.
Well, III do it if L want to- said /
she
LAS the janitor had come in I left |
her 10 attend to the doctor. and con-
tinued TO undress him and aided the |
doctor when he came in.
on, that woman. that woman he |
said, half To himself, many times. i |
knew she'd do this
When / had laid him down on the |
sofa / took the pistol from him. and he i
was very reluctant to give it up: he |
held on TO it. but finally letting go told |
me to take care of it, and put it in my
pocket. On examination ] found that
two shots had been fired, and the ham
mer was pressed down against a cart
ridge that had not exploded. There
was an indenture in the cap. showing
that an effort had been made To fire the
gun a third time. The cylinder con
tanned one more cartridge and one
empty chamber lit was a five-shooter
THE doctors coat. which was on fire
when / first entered. ! had put out. and
the hames of the burning curtain were
put out by the janitor. | believe Ac-
cording to my idea the shooting oc-
CURED in the front room, as was shown
by the burning curtain and the two il
struggling for the possession of the gun
had moved all the way back to the
third room, the bedroom I think that
the woman had rushed out of there
and when / was going in the doctor was
coming from that room.
DIR. Fisher said to me and to others
that it was the first shot the woman
attempted when she put the gun
against his breast and the cartridge
failed to explode. But that is absurd
for the hammer was against an unex-
ploded cartridge when | examined the
weapon. Unless the trigger was pulled
five times till it got back to the first
cartiIdse' ana on the second trial it
failed to explode his statement is not ,
correct \ young man who was in the .
room, the assistant county Attorney ]
told me that ] had better give up the /
pistol and / took it upstairs to the !
county attorney :