The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-08

His Prosecutors Throw Him Into a Pasar-
voir, Attempted to Poison Him-sbot
AT and Wound Him and at Last
Visit His Room at the Dead of Night
and Leave an AK as a Souvenir of His
visit-Ralph McKenney Arrested by
Marshal Cioudman for Some Unknown
Reason.
Young William Wallace Of Wesrbrooh
has been much prosecuted youth in the
past and 10 would appear that his ad-
ventures are not yet over as another
chapter TO the series of thrilling acoi-
dents which has befallen him has lust
been made public.
10 enumerate all the hair breadth es-
capes that young Wallace has been the
hero of in the past eighteen months
would take up great amount of space,
but few Of the most important of these
a re wort mentioning
A year ago last May while returning
homo late at night from party given
at the house of young lady in whom
Wallace was much interested he was set
upon by two men, to him unknown
and thrown into reservoir, which was
so deep that he was obliged to swim to
| save his lifo. The men who worked all
| night in the paper mill saw young Wal
lace shortly after he said he had got out of
| the reservoir and all of them bear EVIL
dence to the fact that that his clothes
were drenching wet and that he appeared
| to be much frightened and excited.
| A few weeks after this first of the
startling series of adventures which has
| befallsn him, Wallace attended the Pre-
| sumpscot fair and was there given !. q
glass of lemonade by a stranger which
made the youth deathly sick and this
Wallace claimed was an attempt to pois-
on him.
Three weeks ago Wallace was held up
on lonesome road near Riverton park
by two unknown mon who went through
his pockets but finding no money helped
themselves to a plug Of tobacco, and let
him go without injuring him in any way
The very next night, however, while
| returning to his home in Westbrook
| from Riyerton where he was at work
! Wallace encountered the would-be rob-
| bers of he night before at or near the
scene of the previous nights adventure.
| After a few minutes heated talk with
these mon during which they accused
Wallace of "sassing' them the night
before one of the men who was standing
by the bushes at the side of the road
drew revolver and fired a shot which
took effect in the calf of Wallaces' leg,
and which inflicted painful if not a
dangerous wound. Wallace fired a shot
at his assailants who ran across the
| fields and got away. A man named
| Grant who lived near the scene of tho
shooting heard all three shots and run
ming out into the road found Wallace
badly hurt and carried him into the
house where he was attended by West
brook phys ioian and afterwards taken to
his homo.
This facts of this shooting case were all
published the morning after their OCCUR
renee in the PRESS, and are doubtless
familiar to many of it's readers. Wallace
had 30 far recovered from his wound that
he had been able for several days to hob
BILE about little by the aid Of cane,
when another attempt was made on
Wednesday night or Thursday morning
either to injure or brighten him.
Tt was somewhere about two O'Clock on
Thursday morning whom Wallace and
his sister, both breathless from excite
mant and fear appeared at the house of
Constable Chute and told him harrass.
Ing story.
Wallace said Q had gone to bed early
and had dropped to asleep at once. Be-
fore no retired he had seen that every
door and window in the house was Sc
ourely holted and locked. Wallace sleeps
in room by himself, but near by him
and on the same floor sleeps his grand
mother and his sister.
About two o'clock in the morning Wal
lace heard some one moving about his
bed chamber. He Kept perfectly quiet
at first and thought he heard low whis-
pering and the sound of stealthily ap-
preaching foot steps. They had reached
nearly to the foot of his bed when he
called out to his grandmother, "There's
some one in my ROOM just at that
moment one Of the persons IN his room
stumbled over a spittoon near the foot
of the bed and fell dropping as he did
SO some object which fell with heavy
crash to the floor. Wallace's grand
mother appeared quickly ON the scene tub
the mentor Wallace was sure there was
more than one of them-had ran down
stairs and out the back door. A big
axe was found lying at the foot of Wal
lace's bed which had evidently been
brought there by his mysterious visitors.
Wallace wanted Mr.. Chute to go back to
the house with him and stay all night.
Instead Wallace was given the revolver
he had fred at his assailants the night
he was wounded and which Mr.. Chute
had taken possession Of at that time.
With this weapon to protect himself
he returned home.
II.