Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-05-05
Who SHOT SHAW
II was John NJ. Bose|y, a
Confederate Soldier
STORY OF THE BATTLE.
1t Does Not Differ Materially
from Telegram Story
Of That Day.
Especial to TELEGRAM.)

Especial to TELEGRAM.)
Mlddlebury, May 5.--2.3o p. m.
There is no change in the condition of
Frank Shaw this afternoon and the
doctors are confident that he will re-
cover. The only danger is from blood
poisoning.
Woodstock, May 5.--The excite
ment over the capture of Shaw murd-
erers ran high. There was a large and
eXpectant crowd gathered about the
Jail at train time to see the elder Shaw
yesterday, who :: came up late in the
afternoon from the Junction.
Middlebury, May 5.-Frank Shaw's
chances of getting better from his
bullet wound inflicted during the
fight with the sheritfs yesterday are
about even. Last evening Shaw's
mother and sister came from Glcns
Falls, to see the prisoner and were
admitted to the county Jail.
Rutland May 4.-The Herald had
a first class man with the officers, who
was an eye witness of the battle with
the outlaws. His statement occupied
three columns in the Herald today.
He says:
THE shooting occurred in an open
lot near the residence of Harrison
Holden, a mile and half south of
Middlebury, on the west side of Otter
Creek. About Is shots were exchang-
ed between the Shaws and Sheriff
Chapman and his party before yo'Tng'
Shaw dropped with bullet through
his left lung and Dustin Shaw, his
father, threw up his hands and sur
rendered.
The story of tracing the Shaws from
East Middlebury to Holden's barn is
almost word for word like THE TELE-
GRAM story Thursday afternoon.
Loomis, Knight, Harrison and Hol-
den went through one of the barns
without making any discovery, but
when they climbed to the loft of the
sheep barn they came upon The hunt
ed Dustin Shaw partially covered up
in the hay. Shaw entreated them to
say nothing about his presence there
and they withdrew without making
any attempt to capture him.
Jumping into his carriage Mr..
knight rode with all speed to Middle
bury and gave the alarm. He had
some difficulty in getting men to fol-
low him, but he armed himself with
revolver and returned to the Holden
place with Ira Taylor. -Four boys on
bicycles followed the men, and in
passing the house of John Bosley they |
notified him that the ShawS had been |
seen. Mr.. Bosley's wife brought out |
her husbands rifle and he, taking his
horse and buggy, drove down through |
the meadows to head off the Shaws if
they should attempt to escape from
Holden's barn.
knight, Taylor and the boysarrived |
at Holdens S just in time to see the
Shaws come out of the barn and start
to run across the meadows. 1t is said |
that both of them staggered as they
ran. knight pointed his revolver at
the fugitives and called to them to
stop. Frank Shaw raised his rifle to
his shoulder and Knight, thinking
that his own weapon was too small,
put it into his pocket and the Shaws
continued their run across the fields.
At this juncture Sheriff Chapman
md his party, on their way home to
drove up from the south.
The men were in four carriages. Mar
Gus Carr and newspaper man occu-
pied the first carriage, Deputy Sheriff
Cobb and Noble Sanford the second
Sheriff Chapman and Deputy Sheriff
Alden the third, and M. T.>Butter-
field and newspaper artist the
fourth.
Marcus Carr was the first man to
catch sight of the Shaws running IN
the fields. With a shout of "That's
5hem," the whole party jumped to
The ground and vaulted fence into
The field. Deputy Sherfls Cobb and
Alden were the only men in the
crowd who had rifles and Mr.. Alden
lid not get chance to use his, for
Mr.. Butterfield snatched it from his
land with the remark, 81 can run
'aster than you can," and was soon
)ut of reach of the deputy.