Litchfield enquirer., 1856-04-10
Tho Case sf Yssng Ames.

2. facts wph ca1,e toour knosledes sfegardhg ths crime of young Ames, at tAs time, or while
 ae lay in confinement awaiting hi4 trial--but
 nov that be has been released from prison. and
 eff ths countE ~e feel justified sin giiviing to
 oar readers whatwe learned of the Case from a
 psrusal of thestestimony given before the Court
 of =Enqniry, and from other sources wes deem
 reliable. We understand he has been absent from bis father most Of the time for several years, having left his employment before he be came of age, and at time when he was re-
 eeiving very generous compensation for his ser
 vices-that since he. absented himself, he has rarely visited bis father,s house, and has been
 engaged in business at East Boston and other
 places. but portion of the time out of employ
 ment and travelling, stopping at St. Louis and
 other cities of the West. He had sn inter view with hn father in New York about year
 ago, and asked for two hundred dollars, which
 was furnished him from this time he never
 sisited his father tin the llfh of January last.
 when he came to his house. at Falls Village
 and was kindly received but his manner was sullen and taciturn. He remained over night
 and late in the evening stated he had con tract to take charge of mill in St Louis, and requested his father to look at the papers--to
 which hereceired the reply that it was late aud they would postpone the examination till morning and both retired for the night. The next morning, he met his father in small sit- ting room, and threw his papers On table, re qnesting his father to look at them, but in
 manner so rude and morose as to excite s,.s- picien--whcn the elder Ames replied that he knew nothing of the men, the place or the busi- ness, and did not feel capable of giving any ad- vice that would benefit him, and declined to look at the papers. Young Ames then asked for more money, and said he had been out of employment which his father replied he ought not to ask him for money at that time, that when he received the $20O he agreed not to ask for any more, and that he need not to have been out of business that he was capa- ble of doing anything. and that his grandfather (Oliver Ames of Easton) would have been glad to have employed him to take charge of works, had he been what he ought to have been. At this moment of time the elder Ames was walk ing the room with his hands in the pockets of his pantaloons, when the son sprang from sofa on which he was sitting, and with fearful threat, presented Colts revolver within foot of his fathers breast and discharged it but ut the instant of the presentation and discharge
 (which the elder Ames declared seemed to him the young man received blow upon his arm and side, which had the effect, az was instinctively intented, to disturb the dead ly aim, and the ball missed the, person of the father and passed through divan standing in the room. A struggle instantly ensued, dur ing which young Ames while lying on the floor in the powerful grasp of his father, again cock cd the pistol and endeavored to turn it in line ofhis fathers body, declaring he would Kill him.
 but the pistol was finally wrenched from his grasp, and he became in a manner subaued :: when he confessed he had led bad life, that he had become desperate, and said his father was no more to him than any other. man, that he hated all men, and all men hated hin,-thus eooy quoting a sentiment of one of the British poets And yet, the father who had so narrow y escaped violent death, in bis own house, from the hands of desperate son, gave that son money and freedom, and bade him go to St. Louis. But Mir. Amcs, on being informed by a younger son, who had met his brother in New York, that his life was not safc-that his brother had communicated to him in New York he had shot at his f,ther--had missed him, but that he would fetch him next time, felt it had then become his duty as man, whatever might be the feelings of father, to lay the facts be- fore his friends, which he did, and by their atl- vice complaint was made to the authorities young Ames was arrested, ard after enquiry by a board of magistrates was committed to iail. on default of finding bail ill the sum of sl5 900 During the first week of the present term. he ~as indicted by grandjury of the County, con- 'isting of eighteen good and lawful men, for an assault with intent to commit the crime of rur
 fer. We are informed that during the first Iaak n ho H.