Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-27
MRS TYRRELL TALKS
On ihe Witness Stand To-Day Against Csnio Gerardi.

Canio Gerardi for attempting crim- inal assault on Mrs Frederick A. Tyr rell took place in the city court to- N day before Judge Peasley. The ac- # cused was represented by Attorney F. P. McEvoy and the case was prosecuted by Attorney c. c. Meigs.
 Mrs Tyrrell stated that she had seen a friend off on the 10:22 car from the trolley terminus on North Main street last Sunday evening, and on turning around she saw a man step from the shadow of the house on the corner of North Main street and the road running up to Forest park. She proceeded on her way home, which is on Chestnut Hill road, and the man walked ahead Of her. At the corner of Chestnut Hill road and North Main street the man spoke to her, but what he said she did not understand. She said to him:
 Now you go about your business and will go about mine She was as positive as positive could be that she used those very words, and that ] she added a moment later:
 T am able to take care of my self" Then the man disappeared.
 A little further up the road she heard sounds as if some one was running and then she saw the ac- cused again.
 Il knew l was in for it then, said she, and I stepped aside" The tA bn. hot seemed to be Come on or 'Go on'' or Come for walk" To which she answered by advising the fellow to go about his business. Then another man showed up and he asked what was the matter and Mrs Tyrrell said she told the second man that she wanted the accused to go about his business. The name of the second man, though not mentioned in the case so far, is Nicola Rosa, and 1t IS supposed he has left town. At all events, he has not been seen since Sunday night.
 After Mrs Tyrrell had told the second man that she wished the first one to go about his business and she would go about hers, both men stepped into the middle of the road way or they were there already. She Twas not sure on this point. At this wage of the hearing she identified che accused as the first man who had hcosted her.
 s( Resuming her story, she said, she told both men to step aside and they spoke again. Then she said that ii they would not step aside she would shoot, whereupon the accused said:
 If you shoot I'll shoot too." Then he stepped forward and bang" went the womans 22 caliber revolver.
 ''I had the revolver in my hand all the time" she said, leaving tho inference that she had it in her hands since she left home with her friend to go to the trolley car. She could not say if she had fired a sec ond time before Gerardi grasped her and threw her town. The best her memory told her on this point was that she fired in all three or four times, and meanwhile she was screaming. There was a struggle for her revolver and in the scrini- mage she lost her teeth and her glasses fell of. Gerardi did not re. lease his hold on her till he had tho revolver. Rosa said quite plainly: Let her keep the revolver" A moment later Gerardi had secured the weapon and both men ran away
 q knew had wounded him ' said Mrs Tyrrell, because was covered with blood. remained where I fell, but when my husband came up he struck a match and we looked for my glasses and teeth"
 Under cross examination Mrs fyrrell stated that she has carried the revolver two years because oi rumors she had heard of women be ing held up. She did not distrusi every man she'd meet out nights but she thought 1t better to go out with the protection of a revolver around her. There were six bullets in tho weapon on this Sunday night. ShC paid particular attention, she said to the appearance of the accused when she first saw him near tn, terminus of the trolley. There is ar electric light at that point and shs saw him before he had got into tho shadow. She, admitted being famil far with the use of a revolver and she has used the one in question al target practice. She identified 2 light colored soft felt hat with a bull let hole and a powder scorch in ths top of it as the hat that she picked up where she was thrown down or the road.
 Officer Peter Myers testified ht and Officer Cavanaugh arrested tn, accused. They were dispatched iron the police station to arrest the maI and they were going up North Mair street on a car when they saw tn, accused being helped along by tw, men. He had no hat His righ hand was up to his forehead and hi. coat sleeve was full of blood Ac cused gave the revolver to the officer saying that he had taken 1t from { lady who had shot him. He also in - formed the officers that he had beer to Naugatuck with a friend and or coming back the friend Rosa sug gested they go to Forest Park ana meet some girls. When he saw Mr, Tyrrell he simply said good ever ing to her and she fired the re volver at him.
 The morning after his arrest. th, man was identified by De,ectiv, Colesanto and accused informed hin that when he and Rosa saw tn, uoman iook hack after fhav has