Litchfield enquirer., 1880-06-24
Shooting in Cornwall.

We gather from various sources the follow ing facts regarding the shocking murder of Saturday last.
 John, aged 18 and Henry, aged IA, are sons of John Trieschman, a very respectable Ger man, a land owner, and well-to-do farmer living near the Cornwall Hollow road, and about two miles northeast of the Cornwall postofice. These boys had been down to Beers store on Saturday night and were re- turning on foot at about half past eleven, and had reached the corner of the roads few rods west of Trieschman's house. Here, the road going up to Trieschman's forks each way as it. meets the main highway; and from clump of alders in the triangle formed by the forks of the road shot was fired at scarcely more than fifteen feet distance at the older boy John cried sut ''Pm shot. Run, Henry!" and started on 2 run himself towards the house. Henry hestated a moment and then ran after his brother He had scarcely gone twenty feet, when another shot was fired, and he received five shot (probably buck-shot) in the lower part of the head and neck. He fell, and cried to John to wait for him. John turned around but seeing Henry rise again, kept on, and both arrived together at the house, and fell down just at the door as their father opened it. Henry was bleeding terri bly,. Within half an hour Dr. Sanford ar rived, the bleeding was stopped and it is be- lieved that his wounds will not prove fatal, though the boy is not yet out of danger. Though suffering much less from loss of blood, John was much the more seriously wounded. Just as the shot was fired at him he had half stopped in the act of taking some candy from the back pocket in his coat This saved him from being instantly killed, as it is evident that the bulk of the charge went in front of him. Two shot, however, took effrct, ose ID the leg, the other iu tine groin, iniiicting it is feared fatal wound.
 It is supposed that the weapon used was double-barrsled shot gun, loaded, as the marks on the wall and fence indicate, with shot, slugs, and bail. Suspicion is thrown upon Frank Chagnot. a Frenchman, who lives about mile and half north of Trieschman's on the Cornwall Hollow road, from the following facts:
 Last winter son of Chagnot's WAS hurt in quarrel with young John 'rrieschran. A few days after he was taken with peritonitis caused by the injury, as was thought. John was arrested en charge of murder, but after long trial Justice T. $. Gold declined to bind him over on the more seriOus chaTpe and merely fined him for All assault.
 Chagnot was very much incensed at the re- suit, and has made frequent threats of venge- ance since. In examining the ambush in the aders from whence the shots were fred pe- cuar track was noticed make apparently by a boot with peculiar patch on one side of the sole. Tracks made by this boot were noticed coming down and going mp the Cornwall Hol- low road up to Chagnot's house. On Sunday afternoon he was arrested by Sheriff Cochrane and boot was found on his premises with patch torn off which seemed to correspond with the tracks which had been found at the place of ambush and followed up the road Chagnot was very much agitated but asserted his innocence. His preliminary trial began on Monday.
 The Treschman boys have always been peacable and well disposed and are not known to have any enemies except Chagnet. Popu- lar feeling runs very strongly against the lat Ter, and we look with interest for the result ot his preliminary trial.