Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-24
AHson SHOOTING AFFAIR.
Mystsrieus Shooting New Being Investigated
by the Grand Jury.

The Madison correspondent Of the
Bangor News tells this story of re-
cent shooting affair in Arson:
Five or six weeks ago, Misses Carrie
and Minnie Morris of Bingham, came
TO Madison and got work in the Indian
Spring wooden mill. At about the
same time Mrs. Nellie Merrill of The
Forks, a cousin of the Misses Morris,
came to town. The trio engaged rooms
with family on the Arson side of the
river, where they have since resided.
Last Sunday, Frost Quimby, Charles
Sprague and Joseph Nichols, all we'll
known young men. went to make a call
at the rooms of the trio.
At about O'Clock. the call came to
a sudden end. Quimby was hurriedly
taken to the office of physician, and
the report that he had been shot by
Carrie Morris went out over the town
with more or less rapidity. At once
all was denied and the matter was
kept so quiet that even County Attor-
ney Small and the officers did not
know of the affair till Wednesday
morning. At once Deputy Sheriff
20 make an investigation.
The facts of the case, as told to the
News correspondent, are these: on
Sunday afternoon, the three young
men went to the rooms occupied by
these women, where they remained I'll
the shooting took place. They had
some liquor with them, but all nave
made the statement that none OIL them
We're under its influence.
Early in the afternoon. Miss Carrie
took a 32-calibre revolver from dress
ing case drawer and one of the young
men cleaned it for her. She then took
it. loaded all five chambers and put it
back in the drawer from which it was
taken.
At about O'Clock, Miss Minnie went,
at the request of young Quimby, across
the room and sat down in his lap. At
this Miss Carrie is alleged to have said:
We'll, this matter has gone Tar
enough" and went to the drawer, from
which she took the revolver and fired,
the ball entering Quimby's left arm on
the muscle The ball went up to the
shoulder where it glanced on bone
and down toward his heart, again
CHANGING on bone and lodging under
the arm, where II was lOulu anu It.
moved by the attending physician.
At the best, the escape was a very
narrow one and the wonder was that
the ball did not touch his heart.
Whether or not this is a deliberate
case of attempted murder. brought on
by jealousy. or a case of didn't think
it was loaded" remains for the grand
jury to decide. Both Quimby and Miss
Morris are very guarded in their state
ments in regard to the case and ii was
the absolute wish of Quimby that the
matter drop right where it is now.
Miss Morris declares that she did not
remember that she loaded the revolver
and that she had no thought of such a
thing as shooting Quimby. The par
ties in the case are we'll known. The
three young men have lived in this
town and Arson for a good while and
have all been of good reputation, ex-
cept that they might have been lit
tie wild" a times.
Mrs Merrill has been sued for a di-
vorce by her husband, Mark A. Mer-
riil, who alleges in the libel that ''she
has been guilty of cruel and abusive
treatment and adultery"
1t is said that Miss Morris is being
watched very closely and will not be
allowed to leave town if she should at
tempt to do so. as the case is now be-
fore the grand jury.
Several witnesses went to SkOWhe-
gan, Thursday afternoon.