The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-05
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A short time before 5o'clock Wednesday
morning Felise Pattenaudc, man employ
ed as ''hooker-up" at the Bessemer steel
works, left his home, No 31S First street,
to go to his work. He walked along First
and Van Buren, streets to the Hudson river
railroad track, and then down the track,
that being the most direct road to the steel
works. At a point half way between Ty-
Ter street and Polk street he met two men
coming north. One of the men was upon
the same track (the east one) as Patten
aude, the other upon the west, or down
track. Without saying word the man
who was walking on the up track, when
within few feet of Pattenaude, drew
pistol and fired at him. Pattenaude, al
though feeling himself wounded, kept on
his way and cried 'help, help" AS he
neared the steam mill, officer Con Ryan,
on duty there, hearing the cries of distress
proceeded up the track short distance
and finding Pattenaude PROSTATE upon the
track procured assistance and carried him
to the mill before he learned that he was a
steel works nian. From the steam mill he
was taken in sleigh to his home on FIRST
street, when DR.. Prefontane was called
The doctor arrived in short time and
found that the ball had entered Patten-
audes body between the sixth and seventh
ribs on the right side, and passed through
his body, lodging in his back just under
the skin. about three or four inches from
the spine. The doctor without much diff
Guilty succeeded in extracting the bullet, a
small Smith Il Wesson, which he after
ward handed to Captain OLoughlin for
safe keeping. From the direction taken by
the ball, DR.. Prefontaine is of the opinion
that it passed through the upper part OF
the mans liver it might have passed
through the lower part Of the right lung,
but inasmuch as Pattenaude has spit no
blood since he was shot, the lung is proba-
bly, uninjured. In case the ball did not
penetrate the liver and inflammation of the
bowels does not set in, Pattenaude will
probably recover at present, however, his
condition is precarious.
When visited Wednesday morning by a
Press reporter Pattenaude was suffering
considerable pain, probably from hemor-
rhage of the peritoneum. Coroner De
Freest was notified and took charge of the
case. Various rumors are industriously
circulated in South Troy, some are to the
effect that Pattenaud was mistaken for an
other man, and that the other mans name
is JOdoin. No reliance, however, can be
placed upon the truthfulness of these ru-
mors the assassin probably intended to
shoot Felise Pattenaude, and knowing his
practice of walking the track when going
to work, determined to do the deed in the
| dark, and for that purpose proceeded up
the track at the time Pattenaude usually
went to work, in the hope of meeting him
The plot was successfully carried out, and
| now poor Pattenaude will undoubtedly
have to part with his life rs q penalty for
seeking work to keep himself and family
| from starving. Who did it is the ques.
| ton which will be anxiously asked, for no
man can tell when his time may come. We
| take the ground that that the cowardly
| deed was done by some of the strikers or
| their friends and we believe that this opln-
Oh WIN VIVIAN aihohS the haJVAhr VI '''
readers. 1t is sad commentary upon the
intelligence of Troy's workingmen that
they seem TO think it necessary to resort to
violence in order, as they say, to assert
rights. What little sympathy existed in
| the hearts of our citizens for those men
who are out of employment through their
| own foolish actions has been driven out by
| this assassin alton. A man who resorts To
| violence TO maintain position he has la
| ken, at once shows the weakness of-the
| platform on which lie stands and the more
| violent he becomes the weaker grows his
position. The disaffected men can expect
| no good to grow out OF the shooting OF
| this man but rather they should see that the
act will have strong tendency to set pub
| lie opinion against them.
| 1t should in justice be said that the strikers
as body as well as the men who are now
| at work are a unit in their denunciation of
| the cowardly attempt to take fellow
| workman's life, and none of them will
leave stone unturned in the search of II
| clue which may lead to the arrest and CON
viction of the wOuld-be assas sins. AT one
o'clock, when Coroner De Freest visited
Pattenaude, he was asleep and SCENE To
| be easier than he was in the morning.
| Wednesday afternoon Superintendent Nc
| Kenna, Chief Squire and Captain OLough-
| lin visited South Troy in search of any
possible clue to the assailants. Sergeant
| Mccarthy, who was at the factory ON the
morning when the shooting occurred, ran
| from Main street to the Clinton foundry
along the railroad track, but failed to dis
cover any trace of Pattenaude's ASSISTANTS.
Messrs. Griswold & Co. willimmediately
offer reward for the arrest and convc-
| ton of those who committed the outrage
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