Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-30
COLUMBUS. O., SATURDAY MORNING.,
The next week Mr.. Moon c,oyo was - ,ceomn,nel. !,

The next week Mr.. Moon was compel
led to attend court again. After an in
terval of several nights, while two of Mr..
Moons neighbors were inside the house,
watching the front door, some one came
to it, and struck forcibly on the door or
sill, from appearances seen through the
side and top lights, most probably with
the butt end of musket. The first stroke
aroused the whole family. One Of the
men fired through the door at him. Mr..
Moons sister-in-law saw him from an
upper window run around the corner of
the house and pause to peep back to see
if he was pursued. She fired at him
twice from the window which was open,
with little pocket pistol. He fell to the
ground the first fire, and moved off after
some hesitation. The men rushed gut
in wrong direction to hunt for him. He
was seen in the yard again that night.
A little closet window overlooks the shed
at the back of the house; the closet opens
into an upper chamber-the back pass
age window up stairs looks across this
shed. These two windows are about six
feet apart, and each fronts across the
line of vision from the other. Hh
The next night Mr.. Ms sister-in-law
saw from the closet window a tall man
coming from the direction Of the ice
house door, which is about twenty-five
yards from the house. Half his form
was soon lifted above the shed. He had
probably stepped on an old goods box
which was by the side of the shed, and
from that on high shelf below the eve
of the shed. She Immediately reported
to the three men then on guard in the
house. One of them stationed himself
at the back passage window. Before
the ladies left this guard, footsteps were
heard on the shed; the scraping of
matches was also heard and light seen
on the shed. The lady went back to the
closet window; the man on the shed had
been alarmed and had disappeared. In
few minutes, however, he appear
ed again, and Mr.. Ms sister-in-law
again reported his presence to the guard
at the back passage window. She went
back Immediately to the closet window.
The guard stood ready to shoot him if
he came in sight. just as she opened
her closet window to look cut, she saw a
man crouched close to the wall between
the two windows scraping of matches
was heard-a light flashed in at both
windows, and the man on the shed, rush
ing by the closet window on the roof Of
Mr.. MS chamber, fired pistol at her
barely missing her head, and singing hel
eyebrows and hair. The powder black
ened the side of the house next to the
window, and the ball struck and glanced
off. The man ran over Mr.. Ms cham
Der roof, and Jumping down on the Other
side, escaped. f.f,-s.,sr5 ans r-r- -1..j
Since this last described night severa
weeks have elapsed, but no night has
passed in which the burglars did no
demonstrate their presence, unmistak
able, in some way or other. Lights have
been thrown in at Mr.. Moons windows
every night, and frequently over thu
heads of from ten to forty armed men,
Sometimes small light, no larger thar
a quarter of dollar, is played upon tn,
walls of his house-sometimes a mucl
larger spot - then a broad or marrow
streak; sometimes fash, and sometimes
a broad glare. A bright, radiating ligh
has been seen on the shed, at the cham
Der window, and at the Office window.
The men who watched in Mr.. Moon
parlor last night, say that light wa
thrown in there, they suppose, at leas
fifty times, and apparently an effort wa
made to throw the shadow Of men on thu
walls. Nearly every night knocking o
scraping sounds have been heard on th'
sides Of the house. Stones have beer
thrown on top, or against the house
Footsteps have been heard on the shet
and chamber roofs-windows have beel
opened, or attempts made to open them
or something of the sort has occurred.
One morning roll of "cloth' six in
ches long, and an inch in diameter, satu
rated with Kerosene oil, and burnt at on
end, evidently a wick for a large light
was found on top of Mr.. Moons shed
On another morning, bottle was fount
in the flower border, covered with tw'
folds of flannel, and having leathe
string for loop to hold it by. The frag
ments of broken glass vessel, probabl..
about the size of an orange, have beel
found on the top of the shed. $50
i IL We should add that in the last sever
al weeks the burglars have been seel
five or six times, and shot at twice. Th
demonstrations last night were yiolen
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