Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-02-28
AIMED REVOLVER.
James {. Mountain Arrested fol
Assault on Augusta Citizen.
A Stranger Here and Belongs i
Providence, R. !.
Held in $500 for April Session oi
Grand Jury. o..

In the municipal court, yesterday af-
ternoon, Recorder Anson Nj. Goddard
held James f. Mountain, who claimed
Providence, r. l., as his home, in bonds
of $500 for his appearance at the April
session Of the grand jury. Mountain
was charged with intent to kill while
armed with dangerous weapon. The
hearing drew a big crowd of specta :
tors.
| The complaint against Mountain was
made by Fred A Wilson, who was the
ivictim of the assault. From the evil
dence presented these facts in the case
were CLEANED:
1t seems that, yesterday forenoon,
Mr.. Wilson was being shaved at De-
lano < Harwood's barber shop in the
City hotel building. Mr.. Harwood was
shaving Wilson When Mountain same
into the shop and began talking about
, the characteristics of different nation
alities. During the course of his talk
he made use of an Opprobrious epithet
which he emphatically declared ap-
| piled to Englishmen. Mr.. Harwood
turned to his customer, Mr. Wilson,
| and said:
Hear the -- - talkt"
Mountain got mad and stepping up
to Wilson demanded that he take back
what he had said. Harwood told him
that Wilson had said nothing, but that
he himself had made the remark, and
which he meant.
I'll make him apologize" said
Mountain and he went out of the door
leading into the hotel. In a few
minutes he returned with a revolver.
Rushing up to Wilson he aimed the
weapon at him and cried:
Take back what you said, or I'll
plug you!"
Wilson was somewhat frightened. as
well he might be, and he told him that
he didn't say anything. If he had done
wrong he would apologize.
HarwOod asked Mountain what he
was doing that for and he dropped the
revolver and removed the only car
fridge that was in the weapon. Wilson
went out and told Marshal Breen and
Mountain was arrested. The marshal
found the revolver in Mountains right
hip pocket and he also found there
three 32-calibre cartridges in one of
his vest pockets.
During the trouble there was in the
shop, besides those already mentioned.
Mr. Delano and Jack Smith.
At the hearing Wilson and Harwood
told the story of the affair substantially
as related above. Then Mountain took
the stand in his own defense. He had
no counsel and attempted to make
light of the whole affair. County At
torney Leigh, however. assured him
that the trouble he had gotten himself
into was no laughing matter, as he
would soon find.
Mountain said that he came here,
Wednesday. from Bath and put up at
the City hotel. He belonged in Provi-
dence, R. l., he said, though he was
born in Boston. In reply to questions
by Mr.. Leigh he said:
Il am in the stationery line. Travel
around selling to the stationery trade.
Left Bath at o'clock, Wednesday
morning. and got here about 9. Didn't
feel like work and so walked about
town. Went into Hotel North and
Cony House Played billiards in the
latter place for a time. Went to bed
at City hotel between 9 and 10 in the
evening. Drank considerable liquor
during the day and night. Had a bot
tie in my room. Drank, this morning,
when l got up.
Went into barber shop, this morn
ing. and this man made remark
didn't like l pointed the gun at him.
but there was only one cartridge in It
and that was away from the trigger.
I'm probably guilty Of that. But
did not touch the trigger at all.
You admit" said Mr.. Leigh, that
Won pointed the revolver. at Fred Will
son and told him to take it back or
you'd plug him?' f-f.
yes
"You didn't have this in your pos
session when the talk first began, did
you?"
NO"
where did you get it?''
Went to my room in the hotel and
took it from my case"
Wilson called me a bad name and
/ wanted to make him apologize"
would you have shot him If he
hadn't taken it back?' g: .r.-F-
No" . .. -.
During the whole examination Noun
tain kept smiling up to the time When
Recorder Goddard announced that he
placed him under $500 bonds for his
appearance at the April term Of court.
Then his countenance fell. He was
| a stranger in the city and he did not
know whom he could get to go on
his bond. The officers allowed him
AN opportunity to secure bail, but he
failed i'm doing so, and was later locked
up.
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