The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-25

ing date of Feb. 8, 1899. In it occurred
a statement as follows:
Il don't want to be unfair, even to
one love even to madness, but L think
your letter unfair to me, inasmuch as
L have been doing all l can to get
ready.
Don't, for heavens sake, release me,
or you will be sorry for it.
! mo, don't want you TO suffer in ST.
lence, and say L had best leave. 1 am
J doing all | can
yes, I'm going to be ready to marry
you as soon as you are through there,
and before, but 1 want TO be able to
before.
He was cross-eXamined as to state
ments for newspapers, wherein he said
the girl had been bounding him, and
insisting that he marry her. and said:
Il did not suppose Miss Geertson was
going into this subject
Prosecution Rested.
The defense called S. H. Cave, deputy
sheriff. He testified regarding the pis-
tol. In examining it the cylinder may
have been turned.
A. p. Hayes testified that Fisher
told him Sunday that the first shot had
passed by his head.
j. Z. Davenport, chief of police, teS-
titled to making examination of the
rooms and finding the bullet and trac-
ing its course through a screen, thence
through a picture frame, whence it had
fallen to the floor. 1t had struck the
wall eight feet four inches from the
floor, having ranged upward.
c. S Pulver testified to a CONVERSE
ton had with DR.. Fisher on Monday,
when he drew diagram which the lat
ter approved. 1t illustrated the posi-
tons of DR.. Fisher and Miss GeertSon
during the struggle.
He had also examined the room and
the bullet marks with Chief Davenport,
and had made some measurements
based on the trajectory of the bullet,
which went through the screen into the
picture. The result showed that DIR.
Fishers statement was incompatible
with the course of the bullet.
Miss Geertson's Story.
Miss Geertson testified that she came
TO Ogden last week ago Monday. She
denied having had the revolver in her
possession. and denied the statement of
Mrs. Croker that she had threatened
TO kill DR.. Fisher. She was in DR..
Fishers office Sunday; was in the back
room when patients were there, but
was in any and all rooms when they
were away. The conversation was
about the marriage.
Coming down to the description of
II
stepped into the laboratory. When she
came out she asked him if he meant
what he said about the affair being at
an end, and he said yes, but not in
mild language. Il stepped back to the
desk" she said, and as 1 appeared
again he was at the opening of the lab
oratory, and he said, If 1 can't get rid
of you one way. 1 will another and
he had a revolver. / grabbed for the
6iCChay.Opd T
got hold of the revolver and it was
turned toward him, and it was dis
charged, and he cried, My God, Laura,
[ believe l am burned. During all the
struggle we were in the laboratory, and
after the shots were fired the gun was
pointed toward the floor. l was
screaming, and people began to come
up to the room, and let go of the gun
and rushed out. Our positions were
never changed Ny back was always
10 the north and he was facing me. AS
remember II, we We're IN the labor
atory all the time during the scuffie.
tried TO discharge the gun without
hurting anyone"
In regard to Mrs. Fishers testimony,
Miss Geertson testified that what she
meant in the conversation was that she
would commit suicide. She never had
threatened any harm to DR.. Fisher.
Cross-examined. she said she had
held onto the pistol till people entered
the room. In regard to the statement
OF Mrs. Croker. Miss Geertson said
that lady promised to keep her visit
secret till Monday night, but had not
done so, as DIR. Fisher knew of it
What she had told Mrs.
Croker was that DR.. Fisher had
threatened to kill her if she ever dis
closed those facts to any of the Crock
er's. Mrs. Crocker had said. People
say many things they do not mean
Miss Geertson replied, Il am afraid he
will do it,
DR.. Fisher and she had conversed
several times about his promise to her,
and he had said if she would be very
patient for several days he might be
able to bring it about. He had become
with someone else during the
past several months, and he could not
break it off. When she became urgent.
he said the only way for him TO get out
would be to leave between two days
She had urged him to be frank with
the woman and tell her so.