Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-30
STATE SCORES AGAIN
in HAGERTY CASE
Witnesses Tell Of Incidents and Con-
VIBRATIONS Tending to Connect Young
Woman on Trial With Acid Throw
ing Which Disfsured Pretty Steno-
qrapher.


Special to Times Republican.
Dubuque, Oct. 30.-The state again
scored yesterday in the trial Of Miss
Carrie Hagerty. indicted by the last
county grand jury on charge Of as
sault with intent to MAIN. Miss Hag.
erty is charged with being the myster-
ious woman in black who visited the
home of beautiful Miss Ella Geary, 81
ear-old stenographed,, and threw acid
in her face as she was leaving.
Mrs. Bertha Fischer, a former en-
ploye in the household of the Hag-
ertys, testified at the trial yesterday
following the prosecuting witness her
self, that The defendant had asked her
to so to the home Of the Gearys and
pose as a magazine agent. The de-
PENDANT also asked her, she testified,
to follow certain man whom she said
she did not know Miss Hagerty, the
witness continued arranged to have
the man call while Mrs. Fischer was
secreted behind a door in the same
room where she could see his face
She did this, she said, and after some
maneuvering, got look at his face.
Further questioning brought out the
fact that Mrs. Fischer did not know
the mans name. but later she identi-
fed him as Paul Schutzcr, the man
in the case" She lost Schutzer in the
crowd, she told the court and report
ed this fact back to the defendant
On another occasion. Mrs. Fischer
testified, Miss Hagerty asked her to
get up early one Sunday morning to
see II this man went fishing with Miss
Geary. She said she had agreed to
go but did not and told the defendant
that she had either mstook him for
some one else or they had left before
she got there. Mrs. Fischer further
lestihed that she was sent to the
Geary home again to secure a sample
OF the handwriting Of Miss Geary. the
victims mother which she did. Pos
Ing as magazine agent she secured
an oroer and with 1t the signature Of
the mother.
Her story was mistaken during cross
examination
Mrs. George Fern. who followed Mrs.
FISCHER on the stand said that Mss
Hagerty had frequently called her up
at her home and told her that Miss
Geary was a bad girl and that she
CMrs. Fern) should watch to see II
PAUL schutzer and Miss Geary went
out together.
Bernard Reugnitz. a local druggist
and member Of the board of education
was then called to the stand. He As-
tihed that Miss Hagerty, the defend
ant, had asked him to find out who
Paul Schutzer was, and his business.
After several attempts. he failed. ac-
cordins to his testimony and when he
reported back to her she referred him
to friend OF Schutzer who he later
questioned. He discovered, he said.
tHat schutzer was chemist and a
soapmaksr and man OF good repute
Following this Miss Hagerty asked
MIN. the witness testified to find out
something about the character Of
Miss Ella Geary. the victim of the as
sault. After several attempts he told
Miss Hagerty that he could discover
nothing evil about her. Miss Geary.)
According to the witness, Miss Hagerty
then told him that he probably had
overlooked something. "She miss
Hagerty) told me that while Ella was
going to school she was not a moral
GIRL he said. II told her." he continued
that had failed to find any one who
would say Ella was immoral and
furthermore, did not believe it."
Mrs. Anne May. former bookkeeper
at Finley hospital, where Miss Geary
was confined following the assault, tes-
tiled :sh:at Miss Hagerty, the defendant.
had called there and had talked to her
OF the incident. She testified that Miss
Hagerty had asked her II she knew
what kind of a girl Miss Geary was,
to which the witness replied that as
lar as she knew she had always been
a good girl. She Miss Hagerty) ac-
cused Miss Geary Of being a bad GIRL
saying that she was going aror:I nth
married men, and that several families
were removing their children from the
Sunday school which Miss Geary at
tended because the latter was there"
the witness said. Mrs. May testified
that she told Miss Hagerty that she
would not permit her to say one more
word against Miss Geary, as she had
known her since girlhood and did not
believe one word she said.
The witness Was still on the stand
when court adjourned at o'clock un-
til Q o'clock Tuesday morning.
The court room was again crowded
to capacity at the trial yesterday. and
scores Of men and women who had