The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-26
WAR IN CARLTON COURT.
Jack McShea Storms the Abiding Place
OF the Huters.

The Bombardment Began With Big Rock
Hurled Through Window, and End
from a Second Story Window-A Case
for Judge Robinson.
There was very sensational scene on
Carlton Place yesterday morning about
O'Clock. Mrs. Catherine B. Huter,
wife Of Jacob Huter was driven from
her home and the building itself was
badly broken up.
According to the story told by Mrs.
Huter the previous evening one Mary
Robinson colored woman-Mrs. Huter
is also colored-came to the house and
walking in said to Mrs. Huter, SIS Jack
here?" To that Mrs. HuGer replied
Do you mean Jack McShea?"
ayes"
"You know I've told him not to come
here agar.
Mrs. Huter had hardly ceased to
speak when Jack McShea himself walked
in and according to Mrs. Huter went
y
struck her sharp blow in the face. Mrs.
Huter then ordered them both to leave
and as McShea went out he said "I'll
come back and make things lively here"
and he seems to have. kept his word.
Mr.. Huter is at work in Boston. and
about 10 O'Clock Mrs. Huter and her son
George FL. West, went to bed. Mrs.
Huter occupied the bed room on the
ground floor, and the boy was up stairs.
There are what are termed "bay win
dows" in the shanty occupied by Mrs.
Huter, and for which she says she pays
aroused from sleep between ~ and l
O'Clock, and heard a noise at the end of
the house. This was soon followed by the
sound of some one falling against the
eud of the building. as that Jack
Mcshea?n she asked, and voice from
outside the building replied Yes, its
Jack McShea and Pm coming in"
This startled the woman but before
she could spring from the bed great
rock came crashing though taking out a
window sash and all. 1t struck the
foot OF the he'd and slightly injured the
woman. She heard the man outside when
he passed to the kitchen window.
The condition of affairs about the
place" may be described as battered, if
no worse, and the man outside seized
section of the alleged picket fence, and
after sending another rock through the
back door window, completely demol-
isned one of the kitchen windows. By
this time Mrs. Huter had hail and
stairway and had seized a brick. She
saw, so she snyss McShea when he came
through theswihdow and when he opened
tho door fora, his companion, who is al
legged to have been James Mccoy She
says that when McShea opened the out
er door, he said, "Come in boys.n She
asserts that Mccoy entered. She then
flung the brick at McShea and struck
him in the face. She then went up stairs
and claims that the two men followed
her.
Then they went through the house
searching for the.inmates who were forced
to escape the best way they could. The
boy George II West got out on the roof,
and his mother was forced tot crawl out
through the chamber window to the
roofg of a shed, and from that she
dropped to the ground aud escaped to
the house OF a neighhor.
Before policeman could be called the
men had searched the house and es-
capped. When she returned. Mrs. Huter
found that her pocket book, containing
1915, was missing.
The house itself is completely demol-
ished inside, and was "a sight to see"
as one colored man put it.
Yesterday morning McShea and Mccoy
were arrested, and were sent to Jail.
They will be brought before Judge Rob
inson in the morning.
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