The Press., 1897-03-04


 Deputy Sheriff Hall of Manchester had an exciting days work with two desper, ate criminals last Saturday. He had been notified in the morning to look out for two horse thieves that were reported tO have gone towards Bolton. Thursday night Chauncey Abbe's barn of Enfield was broken into and his team was stolen. The next night Mir. Abbe's team was ex- changed with one they found hitched in the street in Rockville, belonging to Dr.. E. P. Flint. Deputy Sheriff Hall sus. pected that the thieves might have gone to the house of Tom Daley, south of Bol- ton Center, resort for horsemen, and decided to go there.h He asked Louis Chartier to go with him and to take his horse. The Daley place is quite dis tsnce from the road, and some distance from any other house. As they ap- preached the house, which had been stated to them to have been uhoccupied all winter, they saw man close the barn door, and they found the man in the barn and placed handcuffs on him. They found Dr. Flint's team in the barn, but failed to ind the other man in either the house or barn. Leaving the prisoner in charge of Mir. Chartier in front of the barn, Sheriff Hall went into the barn and began har- messing the horse, but had been gone but 8 few minutes when man appeared around the corner with double barreled shot gun, which he pointed at Mr. Char tier, and demanded the release of the prisoner, and Mir. Chartier being un- armed, quickly complied with the request. The sheriff, hearing the commotion, hur- ried out of the barn in time to see the two men going away and started after them. The two then suddenly turned and ad- yanced toward Hall and Chartier, the one with the handcuffs on having revolver and the other with his gun covered them, and ordered them to throw up their hands and hand oyer their watches and money. The sheriff and Chartier hastily got into their carriage to drive away, when the man with the gun demanded that the handcuffs be taken of from his compan- lon, and when tn sheriff refused to do so, he stepped to the horse's head and fired at the horse, hitting the animal in the nose, making an ugly wound The man fired again, without effect, and then made of. The horse was bleeding badly, and Mir. Chartier drove as quickly as possible to Manchester. Sheriff Hall hitched up Dr. Flintls horse and followed, and or- ganized an armed posse to go back after the thieves. They reached Bolton, and heard of place where they had enquired for file, which they used to remove the handcuffs. The two men were finally To- cated in hunters hut, and one of them was captured, but the other escaped, but was wounded by one of the shots fired at him.. The captured man was the same one that had been handcuffed. He was brought before the Rockville court Mon- day, and bound over under 5000 bonds and taken to Holland jail He gave his name as James Riley, but Is thought to be William A. Thompson. who has served Q number of terms in states prison. The man who escaped is said to be Dimelow by name and very desperate character, and has been heard of in several ioealI- $ ties, but has escaped capture so far. The people around Manchester and Bolton are very much excited over the affair.