Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-24
MRS TYRRELL'S GUN
Brought Down Man Who Walled
 iD ihe Dark.

|
 Hill road, above Forest park lake.
 entered the city court this morning
 shortly before o'clock smiling,
 about the same time that a dark
 haired. pale faced, sullen looking
 man with his head wrapped in
 Dandages and a protuberance over
 ms right eye, entered the court
 room from the cells of the police station and took seat in the dock.
 Mrs Tyrrell took glance at ths man with the bound up head, but he paid no attention to her. She was evidently in smiling mood. She was dressed in white, and Ath~ | only break in the color was made | by her dark hair. The man in the dock was black all over except his face and the bandage above it. His name was Canio Gerardi and he was charged with assault with intent to rape.
 The Tyrrells live in what is called the bend of the Chestnut Hill | road" It is quite a lonely place, particularly if the night is dark as last night was.
 Mrs Tyrrell had a woman friend visiting her last evening and when 1t was time to go home she accom- panied her to the trolley terminus. nirs Tyrrell has done this so often that she is quite accustomed to make | the trip alone, but she seldom goes without the company and self as- surance of small revolver conceal ed in her dress.
 As she was saying the good night words to her friend at the car ter minus she observed two dark conn plexioned men standing in the shade of the peanut and soda stand at the turn of the road from the park into North Main street. After a little while the trolley car came along and bore her friend away leaving herself alone in the dim light of the neighborhood. Chestnut Hill road from North Main through Forest park up to the bridge, we'll known to fishermen, goes through high trees and is very dark. In this lonely spot Mrs Tyr rell felt she was followed She turned round and saw two men, pre- sumably the two she had seen ay the trolley terminus. Preferrine to meet the danger if any there was. face to face, the woman stood and got hold of her revolver. She had the satisfaction of knowing that she was on ground she knew every foot Of and in a neighborhood shex was well known in. As she stoodR with her revolver concealed, but\ ready for action, one of the men stepped forth to accost her. Then she flashed the weapon and the man made a grab for 1t. As he did Sd she fell, but whether she was knock. ed down or slipped on a stone in the excitement of the moment she could not tell, but the revolver was dis. charged and as the echo of the ex- plosion went reverberating through the woods 1t was accompanied by the sounds of fleeing footsteps. Again and again Mrs Tyrrell dis. charged the weapon as she lay prone On the ground, and then sud, denly she felt her hands grasped by the larger and rougher hands of man. The next sensation she ex. psrienced was pull and she felt she was disarmed. Then she screamed with all her might. She looked around and found herself alone, her eyeglasses broken beside her on the ground, with some of her front teeth.
 She arose and listened and heard footsteps rapidly approaching from the direction of her home and in a minute her husband was with her. It transpired that MT Tyrrell had been speaking with Adolph A. Zweibel, proprietor of Belleview. further up the road and they re. sponded immediately to Mrs Tyr. relrs cries for help. While MT Tyr. rell helped his wife home, Mir Zwei- bel took up the echo of the still fleeing footsteps, until he lost the sound in the buzz of an approachina trolley car at the terminus. Mir Zweibel continued down North Main street and came up with man who was bleeding profusely from a bullet wound in the forehead over the right temple. as he was entering McLinden's drug store. Mir Zweibei held the fellow until Officers Myers and Cavanaugh arrived and while the former took the bleeding man to the station house the other went on the trail of his companion but failed to find him. At the police station Dr Graves removed from the wounded mans forehead a flat. tened 22 caliber bullet. which would exactly fit the revolver which Mrs Tyrrell had carriedl
 No evidence was taken in the matter in court to-day and 1t went over to Wednesday on bail of s2, 000