The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-16
WAS SHOT ON HIS WAY HOME
4 SOUTRINGTON MERCHANT cor
 FOUR BULLETS IN HIS BODY.

An Unknown Man Fired at Him From the
 Opposite Side of the Street and Then Made
 His Escape--The Victim is Probably Fa-
 tally Injured-A Possible Clue to the
 Would d-be-Murderer.
 Southington, Feb. 15.-Charles Rugg, a we'll known hardware merchant in this place and siXty-five years of age, was shot and probably fatally injured al o'clock tonight while on his way home from his place of business in Plantsville.
 MT. Rugg had been at his store all day and shortly before o'clock he closed up his place and started to go to his home in Plantsville. The elec- tric cars in the place were not running in consequence of an accident and MT. Rugg walked to Plantsville, While passing through Bristol street and un- der an electric light, some unknown man, who was walking on the oppo- site of Bristol street, fired three shots at the aged hardware merchant. Then the assailant started on 8. run down the street firing another shot at MT, Rugg.
 All four bullets took effect two in the neck, one in the cheek near the ear and the fourth in the back. One of the bullets that was fired went through Mr. Rugg's hat He fell to the ground and the neighbors, who heard the pistol shots, rushed out of doors on fbn CiHpJNa Ily with the blood rushing from the wounds in his neck. He was conscious, but was very weak He was carried into the house of Robert Ellrich, foreman at Peck, Stowe & Wilcox's shop, and Dr. Kelley was summoned The phy- sician probed for the bullets, but up to late hour this evening the sur geon had not extracted any of them.
 MT. Rugg was growing very weak and it was thought tonight that he would not live. He does not know who his assailant is, neither can he give a description of him. The man who fired at him ran down Bristol street as soon as the shots were fired and the police have not been able to learn his identity. MT. Rugg was one of the best known citizens in the place, and one of the representative business men of the town.
 The news of the shooting spread rap idly through the town and the greatest excitement followed. Parties were or ganized to make a search for the as- sailant, but the efforts of the townspeo- pie were fruitless, as they were without any description of the assailant.
 It is suppose that the motive for the shooting was robbery, as it was known that MT. Rugg carried home with him every night the cash taken in at the l store during the day. He had a large | amount of money with him tonight 1 when he was shot. It is regarded as strange, however, that the assailant | should shoot MT. Rugg down in the well | lighted part of the road where he was found. He was a man who had no en- emies in the town, and it is thought that | the only motive for the shooting was | that of robbing the merchant. Rugg | has a wife and small family, who were | completely prostrated at the news of | the shooting.
 The weapon used must have been a | 32-calibre, judging from the size of the | wounds in MT. Rugg's face and neck.
 Late tonight the police found pair of shoes and shirt near the scene of the shooting. The articles had been purchased of Barmuch & Co. of this place. It was learned from the mer- chants that the goods had been pur- chased by Ed. Crawford twenty-five years old, and who was connected with a stabbing affray in this town less than a year ago. The police think that Craw- ford is the man who did the shooting md fhax baUa hepJIn a search for him |