The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-08
DR. FISHER WAS NOT HELD
JUSTICE HULANISKI DEFINED
TO HOLD HIM ON CHARGE.
Said the Evidence Was Not Sufficient
Lively Tits In Court Room Be-
tween Lawyers and Principals.

DR.. II. B. Fisher was released last
evening. Justice Hulaniski declined to
hold him on the charge of assault on
the evidence produced.
Evidence was put in until 5 O'clock
in the afternoon. There was consider
able cumulative testimony on both
sides and several spirited arguments,
not only between opposing counsel, but
also between the defendant and Miss
Geertson.
The letters written by Miss GeertSon
in contemplation of death and publish
ed in The Herald, changed the nature
somewhat of the case. The defense
claimed that the death contemplated
was suicide, while the prosecution in
sisted that this strengthened their case
and that the death feared by Miss
Geertson was from violence expected
from DR.. Fisher. w. L. Watts was
recalled by the prosecution in the af-
ternoon to identify the letter addressed
to Miss Croker. He testified to max
ing a trip to Huntsville Tuesday night
to get the letters for publication in The
Herald. He examined the seal of the
letter to Miss Croker and found it the
same as when it left his possession. He
also identified the contents of this let
ter On cross-examination Mr.. TAFT
questioned his ability to identify the
letter after it had been out of his pos
session. 1t then developed that the
witness had made a photograph of all
the letters, had kept the envelope of
the Crocker letter in his possession all
the time after the seal was broken and
had compared it with the negative.
DR.. Conroy gave important testimony
for the defense, saying that while he
was attending DIR. Fisher, Miss Cert
son once exclaimed: 20, if l had killed
him.
The testimony of A. B. Hayes and
c. S. Pulver about DR.. Fishers state
ment of their positions during the scuf-
fie and the course of the bullets was
denied by DR.. Fisher and by Mr.. Crock
er who was present.
Mr.. Fisher, in telling of the visit to
his office by Miss Geertson and the con-
versation and happenings shifted his
chair and said: Il want to look Miss
Geertson in the face when / say this"
Miss Geertson quickly retorted: IT'S
the first time in long while that you
have cared TO look me in the face.
At another time after Fisher had cor
rected some testimony given a few
minutes before, Halverson said: You
lied then a few minutes ago, did your
Fisher retorted: Even in the condi-
ton that l am, if you'll come outside
I'll show YOU
InerS was also not dlteTCdllOl Ut
two between Mr. TAFT and Mr.. Halver-
son. Several of DR.. Fishers letters
were introduced to show that he had
expressed unbounded affection for Miss
Geertson even as late as April, and fur
thermore that he had acknowledged
owing her money. DR.. Fisher explained
the Huntsville trips as being primarily
to see other parties supposed TO know
something of the case.
The court in the afternoon curtailed
the testimony by excluding much that
was offered and about o'clock brief
argument was made by Mr.. Halverson.
The attorneys each scored the other
in their arguments. Mr.. TAFT being ex-
pecially bitter towards Mr.. Halverson.
At the conclusion Justice Hulaniski
summed UP the case and decided that
sufficient evidence of guilt had not
been shown to hold DIR. Fisher. He said
that if he were guilty at all it was a
very serious matter, one not covered
simply by a charge of assault, and he
would not hold a man under such cir
cumstances unless the chain of evil
dence was complete.