The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-20
SHE Is ON HER DIGNITY
MRS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DAUGH-
TER-IN-LAw RESENTs IN
QUIRIES OF DETECTIVES
SAYS SHE HAS A CLEAR ALIBI


All Day Thursday and Thursday
Night, and Says That She Did Not
Know Where Mrs. Schwemberger
Lived, as They Were Not on
Friendly Terms.
AS much mystery as ever surrounds the
savage attack made upon Mrs. Zelda
Schwemberger in her room on the third
floor. of the block at 327 Wabasha street
last Thursday. The police have ex-
hausted every clue and are still working
on the case, but little or nothing has de.
veloped to show conclusively who was
Mrs. Schwemberger's assailant. The
woman regained possession Of her facul-
ties yesterday, and so far as everything
but the assault upon her is concerned
talks nationally, but she processes to be
able to remember nothing Of the attack.
OF events previous to the assault and
afterward, Mrs. Schwemberger shows an
active mind and retentive memory, but
the closest questioning could elicit
nothing from her about how she was in
jured. On this subject, she says, her
mind is blank. The police regard Mrs.
Schwemberger's attitude as rather pecu-
liar, and Chief Getchell, who questioned
her at the hospital, says he believes she
Is Keeping something back. In fact,
Chief Getchell says he thinks Mrs
Schwemberger could tell who assaulted
her If she so desired.
In company with Assistant County At
torney Zollman, Chief Getchell interview
Sob
her conversation Is concise and clear as
to everything but the assault Mrs.
SchWemberger says the last thing she re-
members Thursday was that she was
early in the afternoon preparing to go to
Minneapolis to collect the rent of cot
tage she owns. She recalls all of the
details of her preparation, even to the
putting on Of her overshoes. but here her
memory fails her, she says, and the next
th1ng she claims to be able to recall is
When young Bone visited her apartments
about 10 o'clock Friday morning. Mrs.
SchWemberger says she remembers that
Bone came to take his music lesson and
that she spoke to the young man. She
says Bone said something to her, she
does not recall just what, and shortly
afterWard left the room. Mrs. Schwember-
ger says she recalls distinctly when her
son found her in such deplorable condi-
ton several hours after Bone left and
that she was fully conscious of what was
going on about her until she was taken
to the hospital. She gave the police
no hint OR clue to whom her assailant
might have been.
One reason why the police think Mrs.
Schwemberger has not been entirely frank
with them is that she refuses to tell
where she kept the money that Is sup.
posed to have been stolen from her room.
She admits that she usually has some
| money about her room, but says she does
not remember Of having told her son
week ago Sunday, as the latter claims,
that she had $50. She will not say just
how much money she had nor will she
make known its hiding place, so that
it cannot be definitely learned If robbery
was the motive of the assault. AS an
indication of the clearness of her mind
Mrs. Schwemberger tells the police some
thing about the $50 certificate Of deposit
found in her ROOM She says she in
dorsed the certificate months ago so
| that IN the event of her death there
would be no trouble about the money. In
connection with this certificate, Prof.
Mozzara told the police that he had once
advised his mother to indorse it. Now
out of the finding of the certificate. grows
another theory to the effect that some
one may have known Mrs. Schwemberger
had the certificate and, thinking she had
cashed it, assaulted her to secure the
| money believed to have been in the house.
But the police do not credit this theory,
being strongly inclined to doubt that rob-
berry had anything at all to do with the
| attack upon Mrs. Schwemberger.
Detectives Sweeney and Campbell yes
terday called upon Mrs Mozzara, at her
home, SIT Wabasha street, to interview
her about the assault upon her mother
| in-law. Mrs. MoZzara resented the intru-
sion Of the detectives. 10 a reporter for
the G O b e Mrs. Mozzara said:
..It is an outrage for those detectives
to come here insinuating that L know
anything about this affair, asking me inn
pertinent questions and accusing me of
having been at Mrs. Schwemberger' ,
rooms Thursday. know absolutely moth
ing about the matter, and do not even
know where Mrs. Schwemberger lives. ]
was never in her rooms and couldn't
find the place If started out to look for
IT, I was not outside Of my own home
all Of last week, q fact that 1 can easily
prove and so far as my movements on
last Thursday are concerned l can give
a satisfactory account of myself. I was
home sewing all day, as the two seam
stresses employed by me can prove, and
1 remained in the house all evening also.
as one Of the girls who sleeps here can
prove 1t is true that Mrs. Schwember-
ger and did not agree. When the fam
lily lived together. up to last spring, she
and I had our domestic differences, but
there was never a serious quarrel be-
tween us. Up to last September she
| lived up stairs In this house, but had
her own apartments. While she was here
| we did not speak. I never went to her
rooms and she seldom came to mine
while I was at home. She did not leave
here as the result Of a quarrel, but be-
cause she wanted a hall where she could
teach dancing. 1 have never visited her
since she went away from this house and
did not even know her address"
Mrs. Mozzara is Prof. Mozzara's wife,
| the couple having been married about
seven years Prof. Mozzara was d.
yorced from his first wife and married
| the present Mrs. Mozzara in Minneapo-
| lis. .
Ms. schwemberger Is entirely out OF
danger and today another effort Will be
made to induce her to remember more
fully about her mysterious experience.