The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-01
A SERIES OF CALAMITIES.
TROUBLE CAUSED BY DRINB AND
 ACCIDENT.

Frank Chnse of Lamberton srcot Abuses
 His Wife and skips rown-His Twelve
 Year-Oid Boy Meets With serious Injury
 Town May Render Aid.
 lt Is true saying that calamities never come singly. This is well Illus trated Tn the case of Mrs. Frank Chase of 2o6 Lamberton street. The Chase family moved here from Bridge port about three months ago. where they own a pleasant and comfortable home. On account Of the inability of the head of the family. Frank Chase. to find work in that city. they decided to come here. He Is a mason by trade. and moved here with his family to work for Contractor O'Brien in the new Fair Haven cut. There are four children in the family, all of them under twelve years of age. Mir. Chase's only failing is that he gets drunk occasionally and abuses his wife. Since he has been with a man named Henry Rooter. more commonly known as Mp" Rooter. who has quite a long police rec- ord, Mrs. Chase says that this mans influence over her husband has been decidedly for the bad and that he has done much to alienate his affections from his family and to cause him to spend his money in any but the proper channels
 The climax of the domestic infelicitY came, however, last Thursday morn- ing. Chase had been off on drunk the night before, and went out in the morning to take a sobering-up nip When he came back his wife was in the bedroom. As she came out he rushed at her and struck her severe blow on the side. She tried to reach the door and make her escape and in so doing stumbled over a chair. As the woman fell Chase kicked her on her left thigh near the hip. bursting one of the large blood vessels. One of the neighbors who saw the deed rushed to the rescue. but Chase threatened to kill her.
 She then went out to find police man. Chase, however, made good his escape and by the time an officer could reach the house he was seen dis appearing over the Consolidated road spies toward West Haven. He has not been seen in the city since. Chase was the man who was injured in the Fair Haven cut about a month ago, when his ribs and hip were broken. He had not been able, in consequence, to do anything for the support uI ills 1aln- lily since that time, and had only been to work since week ago last Monday morning. So that by his precipitate departure he left his family almost des- titute.
 Their trouble however. was not at an end. Monday afternoon the oldest boy, Clarence Chase aged twelve years., went out on the gravel train which is at work near the New York spfles He returned on the train about o'clock in the afternoon. The train came to a stop with sudden jerk, which threw the lad down between the cars and under the wheels. One of the wheels passed over the shoulder and upper part of his arm, crushing the flesh almost to jelly, tearing the muscles from the bone of the arm, in which compound fracture was inf1ict- ed A protruding railroad spike also cut through the muscle of the arm. The wound bled terribly and had it not been bound up temporarily by Georxc Clinton, one of the neighbors, the Ind might have bled to death before phy- sician arrived. MT. Clinton carried him home and Drs. Lambert and McCAbe of Howard avenue were called. They pronounced the compound fracture one of the worst cases they ever saw. and were fearful that lockjaw might set in as result of the wound inflicted by the railroad spike. :"
 As Mrs. Chase is herself in a very prs- carious condition on account of tho wound inflicted by her husband, tha matter has been reported to the town authorities and the boy will probably be taken to the hospital, unless tAa father, who took all the ready money with him, returns to provide for hia family. His wife thinks he may hav, gone to Dover Plains, Duchess County N. r., which is his native place anA where they were married Seighte>. years ago.