The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-07-09
A Shooting Affair in Monroe.

| MONROE, July .. At about two o'clock
| this morning Rodnah Haswell was awaken
| ed by hearing some one moving about the
house. Mr.. Haswell got up, took his revol-
| yer and started to investigate. He soon dis
| covered a man getting out of the front room
window and ired twice at him. One bullet
took effect in the hip. The man ran away
but was traced by the blood that was flow
ing freely from his wound. He proved to be
| a weak minded fellow named Hiram Spar
row, who works in the neighborhood. DR..
| j. S. Cole of Swanvile was called to dress
| Sparrow's wound, but was unable to find
| the bullet.
| The question naturally arises as to what
| Sparrow was after in the Haswell house at
that time of night. Mr.. Haswell and his
| daughter Eliza live alone and she keeps
| house for her father, as her mother is dead
She is girl of good character and respect
ed by all in the neighborhood. Your CORE
| Spondent visited both parties and got their
stories of the shooting Mr.. Haswell says
| he was awakened in the night by hearing
some one coming up the stairs near the
| room where he sleeps. He sat up in bed
moment and listened and soon became CON
| vinced that some one was in his house. His
| daughter was asleep down stairs. He Jump
| ed out of bed, taking his revolver with him,
and the intruder hearing him get up ran
| down stairs to get out the way he came
| in. Mr.. Haswell followed him through the
entry and sitting room and into the front
| room where he could just see a man getting
| out OF the window. He then fired twice,
with the result as above named. Mr.. Has
we'll showed considerable courage, for he
aid not know what the man was after nor
how many there were, but he says he ex-
pected that there We're others in or about the
house. After the man ran away he aroused
the neighbors and at daylight the man was
tracked. The people of the tow feel that
Mr. Haswell was justified in shooting, as it
seems by investigating the affair that his
daughters honor was concerned.
Sparrow is not strong in intellect and
takes queer fancies into his head some
times, and when asked what he was doing
in the Haswell house at that time of night
he said he got up in his sleep and knew
nothing about it until he was shot by Mr.
Haswell. But when further questioned he
told the following story That he woke up
in the night and thought he would 90 up to
the Haswell house and see Eliza. (Mr. Has
we'll lives about quarter OF mile from
where Sparrow works) He did not stop to
dress himself and all he had on was his
shirt. When he got to the house he went to
the window where he supposed the girl was
sleeping, took out the screen and climbed
in, but the girl was not there, as she had
changed her room to one that opened from
the kitchen, which also opened into the sit
ting-room which Sparrow had to pass
through, but her bed was against that door
and he could not find her down stairs He
started up stairs thinking she must be there,
but only went little way, five or six steps,
when he heard Mr.. Haswel get out OF bed.
He then ran down stairs and went out the
way he came in, but before he got out he was
shot. He started for the place where he
works and aroused the folks, telling them
that he met Haswell in the road and he
Shot him. OF course in a quiet neighbor-
hood like this the affair caused a great deal
of excitement and many are the stories that
he had ever been to see Eliza before. and he
said, 'No, never and to sum up the case, it
seems to be too much OF fool running at
large. HR.D.