Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-29

wounded and almost unconscious from
loss of blood. IN q settee on the yer
randall, and skipped away in the dari,
ness.
These are the three events thai havt
about and created such excitement g:
we have never before seen.
The most important of course is TIN
attempted robbery and the shooting
affair.
John M. Blaisdell is 4 ma of abou
70 years and for 10 or u years has lives
alone about Z miles above Belgrad
Mills, in New Sharon, on the road t.
Pennington Falls.
He is noted for his eceentricities ant
is said-to be very careless in appear
ance and way of living. He is know
to have plentySof money with which {,
enjoy the comforts of life. yet live:
alone and in saualor and filth. Thos,
who visited the place were unanimou
in s~aying.thatr it was hardly a decen
abode for animals, so much had tn.
house gone to ruin and such was tn.
condition of the interior.
BetWeen.11 and II o'clock, he wa.
dNYlhCliCd ny lHt Suutlcu tIIlidIiCc u
at least two men into the room used b,
him as a Kitchen and into which a doc.
opens from the outside.
They made 4 dash for the loon lead
ing to his sleeping room, and, when h
demanded to know what they wanted
opened fire upon him with a revolver
Three shots ANere fired and one bulle
struck him in the right shoulder. 8
Not proposing to be murdered without
"a fight for life, he grabbed a pail from
the floor and hurled it at the dim form.
of the men. He is certain that he strucl
one and knocked him backward. Devel
opments seem to show that he was right
Then he seized a double-barrelled shor
charges failed to explode and he began to
think that his chances Were slim.
Still determined TO fight for life. he re-
membered and secured an old blunder-
buss of a gun that had been loaded fol
nearly two years, and although falnt
with pain from the wound in his shout
der. faced the rutfians.
They were then in the kitchen, on
standing in range of a window, so tha'
he could be located by Blaisdell. The
or another man was near and was
lighting a match so that his desperate
partner could see to again shoot at the
old man.
AS the fame increased and as the
form of one stood outlined against the
NlittOW, ny i"N nv
Mr.. Blaisdell blaZed away for human
game, and bagged 1t.
He saw the man stagger and fall in a
bean to the floor, with loud cries OF agony
and fierce oaths. The companion lifted
him and dragged him to the open air.
he was put in the team, which wa:
rapidly driven away. -,
Then Mr.. Blaisdell. weak and faint, fel
on the bed. How long he laid
there is uncertain, but he says that wher
he recovered his senses. he at once
tho,Ight hat he should not remain there
he knew not how badly he was
injured or but what the men might re-
turn. .o,;,a
from his he'd that very treasure that the
robbers had sought. he fled in an almost
naked condition to a ~neighborS house.
where he was attended to and medica
He has a bad wound in the shoulder.
the bail having probably gone downward
into the arm, but 1t IS tnousnt tnat no
varv serious results will follow. otwith
sta1dinp his age. No further trace of the
roblers was seen in that vicinity.
Now comes the second part of the SEN
,tiom and the particular one that has
@iven this ,illage it's excitement;
At 1905. this morning. Charles III. Aus
in nronrietor of the Central house at
w ~ pnilooca was awakened by unknown
u. ! ias raoping on his windows and call
pa, foy Someone to come. Mr.. Austin
lias and almost Immediately the
at,ocEin~ was repeated on an end win
dow from the veranda-
or noing there and asking what was
wanted. no response was nearu pul ioud
~roans' investigation showed a mar ly-
~" nn a six-foot settee, wrapped in a
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