The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-30
HAS BAD RECORD.
The New Sharon Burglar Identified
By Detective True.

He Was Badly Used Up By Farmer
Levees at the Belgrade Hotel.
Belgrade, September 29.-The burglar
who was shot In an attempt to rob the
house Of John M. Blaisdell at New Shar-
on, is at Charles q. Austin's hotel at
Belgrade Mills. He ia holding contin-
uous levee and Is greatly disguised. Yet
he is q fair mark for curiosity and no
one is excluded.
The man is about 80 years of age
short, broad features, with skin as
swart as mulatto's. His stubby NOUS
tache is sprinkled with gray and his hair,
close cropped. lie also slightly gray.
The left arm is !, gone to the elbow. His
wounds are serious, though he Is grow
Ing more comfortable under the care of
DR.. Meeres OF Belgrade.
Several of the larger shot aave pene-
trated the neck and lie SO close to the
large veins and arteries that the surgeon
does not dare to probe for them. The
neck Is much swollen and blood poison
ing may supervene. The jawbone is
also badly shattered and his thumb was
shot away. Yet the man can talk volubly
enough il he likes.
At first he wouldn't say word and
wouldn't even admit that he was con
cerned in the Blaisdell affair. He
wouldn't tell who loft him on the
piazza of the Central house SUNDAY
night.
Horaos N. Jones of New Sharon, arrived
at the Mills early this morning and
squarely accused the man of the crime.
Then he admitted that he was one of the
men, but that he didn' t do the shooting.
To Deputy Sheriff Greenleaf of New
Sharon, Philip Ross. az the burglar calls
himself, unbosomed himself bit more.
He said that be did the job in company
with resident OF the section, and that
as long a. two years ago this man had
told him about Blaisdell and had tried
to COAX him to go into the job. Final
~, Ross said, he consented.
AL this talk of Ross.s was evidently a
shrewd subterfuge to divert the attention
OF the officers SO that his companion
GOULD get away.
A certain man lives on cross road
about two miles from Rome corner and
he answers in degree to the description
given by Ross. Last evening this man
was placed under quasi-arrest and was
led to Ross's bedside.
Is this the manP' he was asked.
"No. snarled the wounded burglar i'm
patiently. 81 never told you that the
man lived in Rome.
rived from Hallowell and at once recog-
nized the man as one Ross and had
some interesting information to impart
concerning the fellows criminal history.
In the parlance of the police. "he's
bad one."
Ross has prison record. In 1886, No
vember 3, he was sentenced in the Lin
coln county court for assault with in
tent to kill, having shot and wounded
the keeper Of the toll-bridge at Wiscas-
SET that summer. - 49,.
The state prison gives the following as
uln I0OOfO NO. oDO. Aurou LIZ 1lO6S,
aged IS, native of the Island Of Corsica,
sentenced November 8. 1883. for six years,
from Lincoln county"
While awaiting trial In Wiscasset JAIL
he, with one Reed, in for horse stealing,
at Bath, and one Jones. overpowered
Tailor Patterson, looked him In the cell
and escaped.
Mr.. True captured Reed in Lynn,
Jones in Waldoboro and Ross in Bangor
jail, where he afterward said he secured
commitments purposely, Knowing he
would be caught, and hoping by the
time his 30 days were up he would have
been forgotten.
When Detective True entered the room
at the Central house last evening, the
Corsican looked up and said feehly,
Hello, Ira"