Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04
BARRE man
Is Alleged To Have Shot
Woman
IN new HAMPSHIRE
Quarrel Between NeIghbors
Has Fatal Results

Bellows Falls, Nov. 4.-George A,
nriggs shoo and killed Mrs, Chaunce y
Jones In Alstead, N. II Saturday ia
quarrel over right Of way across
some land.
Briggs has given himself up. H.
shot first at Jones boy Is years old
but missed him. Then he fired four
shots at the mother with fatal re.
suits.
Briggs was driving home some cat
ale from a pasture mar the Jones
house, when Cleveland Jones came in
the field, an Briggs alleges that the
boy purptstlJ frightened the cattle,
causing them 70 scatter. Young
Jones claims that he went into the
field to get an old copper 30 Ter there,
and that he did not Intentionally
scare the cattle. A lively dispute is
said to have enSued, in which hard
names we're called by both and there
wa much profanity. Finally Jones
made retort that angered Briggs so
that the boy saws Briggs said, with a
horr BILE oath, Ill clean out the
whole lot of you.
Briggs then went to hi house. a
sh' rG d'Sta nee away, and afI er St Gu ing
revolver. went to the Jones house.
From the highway ia front OF the
house he yelled that he would shoot
the first one who came out of the
house. Mrs Jones aid her five child
rfn, # VIII m Cleveland Jones is the
eldts were ia the house at the time.
Cleveland } neS says that none of
them went toto the yard, anu that
b iggs then came to the back door
Toe uother went to meet him in the
,h,ll, wht n young Jones says Briggs
ti'ed his revolver and Mrs jones ran
rttn the kitchen crying, ''My & d, he
mas shot me.
Briggs, according to the boy then
rus ed inro the kitchen az d shot Mrs.
Jones i he back twice. She ran in
to the sitting r. om and fell to the
II "r. Young j. hes gr bb d Bliggs
b} the kn4es, and he says Briggs fir
ed two shots at him, neither taking
ttf'ct. The revolver by this time
was tmpt7, and the chldr succeed
ed ia tsuaping to neighbor's.
The neigh orS say that there has
heen much trouble between the Briggs
a ID Jones families for the past six
months, it having started over a dis
pute as to right of way through
I'd which Briggs claimed belonged
To him. Mr.. Jones made an aoplica-
1io 20 the Selectmen for the right OF
Way. Briggs IT sis ed the laying out
Of the 10 d,and it is said hy the neign-
tors that there have been continual
qu trrels b tween the two families
ev' >iuce.
Briggs is 45 years old and lived in
LangdOn with wife and WO children
having come there three Years ago. He
Is SAID to have fairly good repnta
tion and never to have caused the New
Hampshire authorities any trouble.
He is understood to Lave come from
VT, where he has rel
ntlves, and he is believed to have a
brother ia Barre, Vt. IL is said that
he had wife and one or two children
living in the vicinity of the latter
place, Although the woman who
pissed as his wife in Langdon b d
lived wi h HIM rae years. the neigh.
oors assert tn sac was only married |
10 him week ag The ceremony tax.
ng place In Greeuti Id, Mass. Briggs
3 sal to have liv d TO several years
q Ca ifurnia and Nebr ska.
B'iggs lad had Some trouble with
he We mOut authoriti.s recently, and
)ffice came here from that stale 70 in
,erview hin about mortgaged horse
le was alleged to have sold.
George H Briggs was born 10 VII.
where his parents still n.
ide. They are Mr.. and MIS-. Albern
Briggs. lie has two br 'thers In VIII
JAMESTOWN, Dennison, wi o lives IT
lome. and Charlie, who is married, as
veil as two sisters, one married and
me unmarried. Another bro her, X.
J. E iggs, lives in this city and runs
blacksmith shop on Pr spect St.
Seven years ago this coming Febru-
" he deserted his wire and three
mall children while living in Norris
lille. Mrs. Briggs came to this Cit,
nd blourht up her ch,l iren here.
'nree ears ago last May she secured
divorce from him on the grounds of
esertion. A few weeks ago, after
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