National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-07-07
4 HOrribic IrdOedV.
MORE Rum AND RUN,

ing families. Adams was man
about fifty years of age, very will
full and revengciul. Randall was
younger and dissipated, but not nat
urally malicious. There had been
trouble between the
two men previous to that time On
the morning of that day, Adams
went with II friend of his to West
Topsham Village, passing Randall's
house, and had some hard words
with a woman who lived in Rams
,lall's family, named Sarah Scott, a
town pauper.
About the same time Randall and
his wife went to Orange on some bu.
sincss, and whilo there procured
some liquor, as he was in the habit
Of doing. His wife now says that
he obtained the liquor from the liq-
nor agent at Orange, who is in the
habit of selling all he can to people
from West GrotOn, and taking shin
gless for pay. Randall returned
home somewhat intoxicated, and
was eating his supper when Adams
and his friend Carter came back
from West Topsham.
Randall, upon being informed that
Adams was coming, got up from the
table and went ont to the road, re-
marking "that if John Adams did
not take back what he had said
about him and the town pauper be-
fore mentioned, he would give him
a whipping;' which remark Adams
heard, and Immediately took the
board on which he had been sitting,
in bis lumber wagon, and jumped
out, and told Randall to come on, he
was enough for him. Randall's wife
came out of the house and took
hold of him, and told Adams to go
along about his business, which Adj
ans refused to do. Randall was so
much intoxicated that his wife could
handle him, she being a muscular
woman. But altogether they got
up quite a fight, and the woman
and her daughter took Adams and
put him over the fence towards AID.
ans home, his horse having gone
along alone.
While the scutile was going on at
the fence, Randall came up, and
Adams, reaching over the fence,
struck him twice with knife, in the
left side, below the heart. Randall
cried out, "JoLn Adams, you have
killed me-" and staggered back into
or near the road and fell to rise no
more. Adams Immediately ran for
home, followed by Randall's wife,
;rying, "YOu have killed Frank p
A dams, after running some distance
.urned and "set" his dog upon the
who was saved from being
torn to pieces by the sudden appear
lnce of neighbor. Randall was
found by other neighbors lying in
the road, and was carried into the
house. He lived till nine o'clock the
next morning, most of the time I'M
Adams was arrested that same
evening, also his friend Carter, who,
t is GAINED, sat in his wagon dur
ng the fight, telling Adams to Civ G
t TO him, Sc.
1t seems to common sense people
If the vicinity, now more than ever,
hat this indiscriminate sale of poi.
ION to the poor people of West Gro
on and vicinity, and by an author
zed agent, too, should in some way
,e stopped. Words cannot express
he contemplate neanness of the
nan who, knowing Frank Randall,
would sell him rum. He obtained
hat day pint that his wife knew
If, and two quarts that she did not
NOW of until she got home. Shall
hese rumsellcrs be left to be pun
shed by their own cOnsciences! Or
ave these usually faithful monitors
nd avengers been forever silenced
" the dollars this traffic brings
heir possessors And what of the
county Commissioner, who, in the
ull possession of the facts in regard
o the practice of the Orange agent
or the last year, licensed him anew.
Cor.
Groton, VT, July 3, 1871.
The Belfast, (Me.,) Republican
,ives the particulars of the fall of
in aerOlitp of twelve hounds weight.