Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-06
DEATH OF MRS.
TELLER RECITED
CHAUFFEUR OF AUTO THAT
KILLED HER IN COURT
AGED HUSBAND soBs OVER THE
TORN GARMENTS
Carl Amand Fischer, Charged with
Felony, Is Pale and Self
Contained as He Hears
Grewsorne Details

Pale and seif-contained except for a
nervous tremor and a few tears when
the most grewsome details we're re-
counted by witnesses for the people,
Carl Amand Fischer, the chauffeur who
is charged with having run over and
killed Mrs Dora FelIer at San Pedro
and Eighth streets, July 10, appeared
for his examination in Justice Summer
fields court yesterday afternoon and
went through a terrible ordeal as he
listened to the witnesses called against
him.
There was some delay at the opening
of the case against Fischer when it
was found that the complaint had
been made out incorrectly and charged
the automobile driver with having
killed Mrs. Dora keller" This COM
plant was dismissed and the prisoner
was rearraigned and then stood for ex-
animation.
The first witness called by the peo-
pie was John Feller, Sal San Pedro
street. the 74-year-old husband of the
woman killed, and he told in dazed
and befuddled manner of having seen
nothing of the accident at all and OF
having only been made aware that
something had happened to his wife
when he heard a yell
Saw Wife's Dead Body
On running back across the street he
found some strangers holding her dead
body. A grewsome exhibit at this point
was the torn and muddy remnant of
what had once been part of the skirt
worn by Mrs. Feller, and the old man
in broken tones stated that the last
time he had seen the tattered black
cloth it had been worn by his wife.
Testimony which appeared to visibly
affect Fischer was given by Frank
Harlan, a motorcycle police officer, who
arrived at the scene of the accident in
the patrol, and G. K. Willett of Bresee
Bros undertaking company. Both OF
these witnesses mentioned the grew
some appearance OF the body of the
dead woman. During this recital the
defendant hung his head, and tears
were seen glistening in his ewes.
C. Meyer of Reidmann & Meyers un-
dertaking company was placed on the
stand to identify the body as that
which was turned over to him py VIII
lett.
stephen P. Vesselich, 631 West Fourth
street, a mechanical engineer, under
went a long and severe examination
when he took the witness stand and
described what he had seen at the time
Of the accident.
Ran Into Street
He said that he had seen the woman
run out into the street about fifteen
feet from the curbing on the west side
of San Pedro street, at the corner OF
Eighth. Then he heard a thud and
saw her body lifted UP into the air and
then drop below the line of vision and
under the automobile. At this point
counsel for the defense and counsel for
the plaintiff became engaged In
wordy war and alternated at re-exam-
lining the witness. Defense believed
that the evidence showed conclusively
that Mrs. Feller ran out and bumped
into the automobile, while plaintiff felt
convinced that Veselich had proved all
that he wished to maintain.
The witness was SO excited that he
gratifed both lawyers in many ways
by falling in with all leading questions.
Veselich was not allowed to testify as
to how fast the automobile was NOV
ing at the time of the accident, but he
was permitted to say that he thought
1t was going fast" after the impact.
The case will be continued today.