The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-23

they lay calling. to each other and pleading each
With M OthsT for help va. The n old Seo man ,t .5tSd ito to
wound, He could not rest with his head on tho
floor. He struggled and struggled and strng.
aged to raise his head to the foot OF 4, There
he gasped for breath and. calling to his sister.
to have al my property and all my papers. 1
Mary Nichols says that he continued his
struggles a few moments after this and then
she called to him hour after hour, even after
his death. Too weak to stand on her feet. she
T HisoS her. SUI Il 70 wa sS'S SPoa sd' d %Shsi end rS Ssis ra 5G,
had begun again and was coming down In tor
rents ~ She e srsTled about the o house e., She She
him; She ieit herself growing weaker and
were coming back to finish her and she did not
dare to make, her way to the door.
after tho shooting, when Miss Nichols, creeping
along on her banda and knees, often falling over
door and opened It and crawied' out into tho
yard and into the street. The rain soaked her
fhs er ssnin IN : SIN mo% mensg ann 10 sh @st ' eS her i iec te peSp
tho gate; but she fell again into the roadway,
and and craThlins; she %- made lsssdn her way up ? toward o ard
front porch OF his house. She saw. him when
che was half way between the two houses, and
her, and then he yelled to his wife.
"Phillis. there's a woman down the road a
~ ulu
Mrs. Beatty rushed out on the porch.
Cant you SEQ herf Can't you see herr
s"And there" says Mrs. Beatty, ct saw Mary
Nichols, a.looking. SO wild and so ehostly and SO
was the most awful looking creature. She was
down. She saw US, and she was just getting to
hs5 feet s sRs w wns ne asF d aenS. y Ms un lIf'i m ss
my arm around. her, and she says: Don't,
"Thcn / called Al. AL, run for a DOCTOR and
my husband he ran up the street as hard as ne
took Miss Nichols, by the arm. Miss Nichols
says: oh, my brother is dead and 1 am shot in
MY daughter, she helped her home. She put
her arm right around her and nigh carried her
right across the body OF poor Marx Nichols"
Woicott Beach was the first man summoned
%e nss sfser ri Miss ss Nichols a" and sh' B eSaSS 2 ds aSw %St
rsHShsd th %biob Gis s ~ T ran to the heo, nearest .nd
Lone hill for apother telephone, and that was
tho nearest doctors five. His telegram was to a
doctor. but the operator telegraphed to the
that got out Of the little village.
every, house on the way and snmmoning. the
neighbors. Before noon everybody within a
of them were panic stricken. They, rushed
around here a2I there. none Of them knowing
Wnat 10 90. None OF them dared touch the
S SSsyii o Sns It * fEo '9 %o@ ON foS hG San less 't to ret It
n. 5, Sieh %h;,% sP 3bs a s,S % 4 they hey placed p.S h her 10. on
that she could hardly talk. None, OF
Ing the Wounds that she had and nothing
was done to stanch the blood. Instead they Piled
She told them pieoem neal The The' story tory as asI q IS re:
lated above comes from her. She said the men
were both short and stout. They both wore
masks that came down to their breasts, and all
that could be seen was their eyes; They wore
sSi hs of e eIo.h Ms!e a aTft that 81 sh s0o COULD feiff a SlSGk
them was that one man had piercing black eyes.
T a1"Is eyes Ss s wsEe II, the , only g gSs w Of the 5skd 1%e {, ths1
talked like Germans or Yankees. She said they
talked like Americans. As she related her story
and ! thought they'd come back and kill me all
At one time she said:
.n nBoG,s knew lss t + Su Ell abi in ne the papers; don't let
Absolutely nothing was done toward ~investi-
eating the affair or learning anything about the
%sa wss sn nes s sfssTnG sns,, T tSs i sfifssrii isn b e ISs
port arrived. The village is outside of the juris-
s sos tbe of osn tns ts fan ssee sela g9lissb; 6ns wheH sn the
poson. and Medieai Esami ssai Dr. N .Sodfr re . anS de-.
tailed two of his own men. Detectives Arnold
him. pr. Hill q Bridgeport was also sent along.
was SO weak that everybody thought she was
going to die right away. Both the doctors went
hit By one bullet, that IL had entered her chest
on the left side, had shattered the collar bone
e e"d IDEAS soP% S5shkH taf in The back. o0i Il w ana m MSs
vellous that she had lived at all. While the doc
tiers sSe S SsEs OF M0rsN! ies6o T''f iit fss 'h esoG GOF q. a bad
sbs billet he examined 1Pnt had it; .,-d He found that
gone clear through the body and passed ID out on
ne right side! !TS., probably penetrating a lung in
hours afterward, when one OF the women dis
covered 1t in the sweeping of glass and blood
It had been fired when the rohber was standing
less than three feet away from his victim. In
said. would have killed a man instantly; but
Nichols, in spite OF his age, was a hardy man,
The detectives went through the house and
s ce9Isr So the Ere GROUND b d; They hey Discovered that tho
foundation. and there were twentyr.ivc or thirty
bricks torn out, of the foundation. Out In the
t 9bchaT 1d hack OF the house under an apple tree;
Some plates that had contained pie and cake.
This hnd was responsible for he suggestion that
he stayed outside to wau "S IKE 'r ro6 SsSnG Sar So
and cider out to him GDV While %H they v Wcre do sRe toGs
getting their share Of the feast. of which they
and drinking cider. 1t was plain that this cellar
door bad not been. pried Off to enable the rob
beers to enter the house. and 1t was also plain
they had entered the first time through the pan.
try window, and tho second time had burst in
the door.
The Coroner took the statement of Miss Mich.
OILS. and 80 did the detectives, and the neigbbors
went at her again and took it all over Each
time she remembered n little more. but at no
time did her story vary in any statement of
fact. The High Sheriff OF Fairfield county
got out TO the house shortly after the Cor
oner and, the detectives, and he searched
for valuables. Miss Nichols told him where
they were, and he picked up nearly a bushei-
Gasketful of stocks and notes and bonds
them. He kept only a rough count Of them as
he put them In the basket, and he said they
footed up at IA low estimate $75, 900. He took
them with hin to Bridgeport and locked them
The detectives searched the neighborhood and
questioned every person who came around.
Not one or the neighhors had seen any stranger
around for weeks. None OF them had heard any
wagon pass Ia the night, Mrs. Beatty. whose
boy was drowned a couple of weeks ago. and
who has been on the verge OF nervous prostra-
tlon since, told them that she didn't sleep well,
and that at about 2 o'clock In the morning she
h itd been awakened by a noise that sounded
She said she got UP and won't down.