Connecticut western news., 1880-06-23
Attempted Murder ii Cornwall
TWO BOYS SHOT BY A MID-
 NIGHT ASSASSIN!
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Last, Sunday morning all Cornwall was thrown into state of the intensest excite ment and indignation by the report that two TriesEanaine boys, Jshn and Henry, aged irsspec&iSely abodt-l9 and IA, had been shot lby-an: Gdknown person on the road near their residenesin Johnson Hollow, the night be- Tks details ofthe affair are briefly as fol- |lous: The Trieshmanl boys were returning from band meeting at Cornwall Plains at II oscl6ck Saturday night, riding part cfthe way wTith Amos Catlin, a neighbor, who carried tikehs hsas far as his house. which was but a short distance from their home. Leaving ECatiin at his gate,, they started afoot for Ehome, and had just turned from the main broad running from Cornwall Hollow to Corn Ewan Plains, onto a. branch road leading Epast their house, when gun was fired from clump of alders about four feet high stand iing in the fork of the road which curves to ahe. mainroaa in both. directions. leaving a 4riangular space which is grown to alders. Immediately the shot was fired, John, the eldest, called for help, saying he was shot, land his young brother, frightened by the shot ana cries of his brother started on run for the house, few rods of, but before he had Igot fifty feet second shot was fired, strik. ling him in the back of the head and neck,
 and he fell, bleeding profusely. The cries of
 the wounded boys brought Catlin, who was
 putting out his horse, to the spot, and Mrs. i Trieshman, who thought the noise was caus. cd by foxes after the chickens, came to the
 door in her night dress, to fighten' them of,
 when she found out the terrible truth. The
 boys were helped into the house, and Dr.
 Sanford of West Cornwall was sdmmoned,
 who examined the patients and found that
 Iohn.had received several shot in the hip and Ethigh, and one had penetrated the abdomen
 ii the lower region, which was the only one
 from which any danger was to be apprehend- Fed Henry's injuries were less dangerous, al.
 tRoughshe lost more blood than yohn,s his
 shirt being completely saturated, and his boots containing about pint.
 T Suspicion at once pointed to Frenchman \ named Chagnot tpfonounced' shah.nio) as .l tie only person who could have motive for such an act and who was known to cherish a 1 sincere hatred for the Trieshmans, growing | out of feud which our readers will remem. lJber, with brief al1usion. About the first of
 December last, as John Trieshman was driv. ing past the Cornwall Hollow school house at.recess time a IA year old son of Chagnot
 threw stones at his team; and Trieshman
 threw him down and punished him :. h. a .l few days the boy sickened, and died in'about three weeks. Trieshman was arrested and
 brought before Justice T. s. Gold, on charge ! 6f;murder in the second degree, but owing to.the conflicting testimony of the doctors,
 with: regard tathe probable cause of tue boy's
 death he was acquitted. Ever since that lI time Chagnot has felt bitterly toward young
 Theshman, whom he persisted in considering
 the murderer of his boy, and this unfortu- [ nate affair, added to 8 malignant and revenge full disposition, was sufficient to create a mo- tive; ;fbrsuch crusl and eowardly deed as
 was performed last Saturday night. Accord.
 ingly he. was arrested Sunday morning by
 deputy sheriff Cochrane and assistants who
 first visited the scene of the shooting, to
 gather few clues. Foot tracks were found
 leading from the clump of alders, towards
 Chagnot's house, and pieces of the wadding
 used was found, which proved to have been
 torn from the New Milford Gazette, andit was
 afterwards found that the Gazette isthe only papes that Chagnot takes. Chagnot denied
 all knowledge, but did not seem in the least surprised to learn of the affair, nor at the early call of his legal visitors He was taken I to the Mansion House, kept, under strict sur veillance, and brought before Justice Gold on fMcaday for preliminary hearing, but the case was adjourned one week to await the re- sultsof the boys wounds. Chagnot was placed undsr S20Qo bonds, which he was unable to furnish, and accordingly he was taken in custody.