The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
HENRY TAYLOR,
(who was assaulted.)

mont and told me that there was a fell
low up stairs who wanted to see me.
York said that this fellow, whom after
wards found was Ed. Allen of Sanford,
Me, wanted me to go with him toaSan-
ford and lick a fellow named Taylor,
but that he was not going to have any
thing to do with it, l could do just as
I choose. Then ne went up stairs and
sent Allen down. i don't remember ever
having seen him before. He told me there
was fellow in Sanford that they want
ed pounded and that if I would do the job
there was SIS in it for me as soon as it
was done. I thought it over for lit tle
while and finally said would do the
Rochester and it was there that L first
saw Thompson. 1t was noon when we
reached Sanford I spent most of the
afternoon in Aliens company and was
in Thompson's saloon part of the time.
I may have seen Thompson before, but
did not know who he was. Allen went
with me to the yard at the back of Tay-
lor's house. I did not know whether Tay-
lor was in the house or not when l went
over there, but q woman came to the
door and after looking out, fastened the
screen door, l came to the conclusion that
Taylora must be absent. Allen and had
been in the yard perhaps 10 minutes
when Taylor, as was Indicated to me by
Allen, rode into the yard on his bicycle.
/ spoke to him, telling him that he was
the man that had been looking for
At the same time struck him knocking
him down / did not kick him as has
been stated and | had no knife or any
other weapon about me. His hand was
on his wheel when struck him and the
bicycle fell between us so that l could
not have kicked him if / had wanted to,
and I did not. All that was to do was
to thrash him so that he would mind
his own business. [ had Taylor down and
was doing fair job, / guess, when his
wife came to the door and began yelling
murder. Taylor reached up once, and
I guess he must have knocked my hat
off, for lost it. A runaway horse had
Just gone by q few minutes before and
there was quite number Of people on
the street and / thought some of these
people must hear the woman's yells, so
/ Jumped up and ran. Their Taylor be-
gan to fire at me. 1 was not ryssbadly
scared, but of course / didn't want to
getnhit. Allen and / ran over onto the
street in front of the hotel. We did not
90 to Thompson's saloon after the scrap
but sometime between 9 and 10 O'Clock
we got into a team close by the cemetery
on the road that goes down by the fair
grounds. There were three of US in the
buggy, Ed Allen, Joe Gagnon, the little
French fellow who tends bar for Thomp-
son, and myself. did not get my mon
ey until got to Somersworth. 1t was
paid to me then by Gagnon. Ii l had
not been drunk they would never have
got me into this scrape. knew well
enough what was up when the officers
came after me the next day. 1t was a
foolish piece of businesssrig through,
and 1 wish I was we'll out of it. | am
treated well here, but I would much rath-
er be at home. I received letter from
my wife today, and l have written to her
this afternoon. The money that York
gave me when came away with the Off
GERS was money that he was owing me
for labor.
The testimony of Gagnon, will, in a
measure, contradict some of ElWelP S
statements for, ,according.to his testimony,
it will be shown that Allen and Elwell
did call at Thompson's saloon after
the scrap, and that one of them remarked
that the job was done. Joe Gagnon will
tell how L. W. Thompson gave him the
money and told him to give it to the
man who licked Harry Taylor, and he
will also tell several other things more
or less damaging to the defense. There
is little question that the Somersworth
bottler, Fred York, will be directly in
yOlyed,