Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-28
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San1ue! Stacy Of Benton Charged with
srca-ering to Shoot.

Salnuol stacy Of Benton, was ar
laiaEod before Trial Justice Dana -
! roster i'll the @U.t rior court room III
! N" City buiidin", yesterday, on the
! rhir%" Of threatening to shoot Charles
"A. True Of Clinton. Several witnesses
We're examined by the court and Hon.
:. :. brown, VINO appeared for stacy
After hearing ail 0fthe evidence Justi "
Foster decided that the costs OF tn
hearing should be paid hy the county
ana ti.at Mi. stacy be put under bonds
to Keep the peacc. Mr.. brown appealed
and AR. Stacy furnished bonds in lne
sum of $50.
/ From the evidence it seems that the
whole trouble was caused by dogs
owned by Mr.. Stacy. He testified that
these We're pups about 10 months Old
belonged to one litter and that they
used 10 chase teams and bark as pups
Will %. but that they never harmed
any one. Mr.. True testified thai they
had caused him great annoyance Iii
summer, his business taking him by
Mr.. St&cyS place ut frequent Intervals.
Z lie had complained to the selcctmen
and mad been told to shoot them.
| Air. True told his story first and in
substance it was as follows: -About
Thanksgiving tiinC, last fall. he in
company with his son, Was passing
Mi. Stacy's house when TIE dogs ran
out at him. Ills son fired one shot at
! GIG and missed AMI then fired Il Sec
,, und, hitting the dog. He claim Il That
some one in the Stacy doolyard thea
fred q slot IL his direction and That
he @nt away quickly as he could.
1n n
short tine ago, Mr. True said that sev-
erai people yc;!ed at him through the
window, telling him that if he diin
keep off that road HI would be shot and
that ,-Is Toys would be shot too # lie
didn't keep them away. Mr.. True
though. all the people in the w.ndov'
said about the same thing. He said
thai he thought MI. STACY would shoot
him because l.o had said h would.
Mr.. Tue said that he had commune
rated with County Attorney Leigh re-
gardin@ the matter and had been ad-
viscd TO see Mr.. Foster ana Deputy
Sheriff Colby Getchell about it, which
lie had done.
Mr. True was subjected to a pretty
rigid cross-eXamination by Mr.. Brown
and was not wholly clear on some of
Charles ". Goodwin testified that he /
lived - o. 50 rods from Mr.. Stacy and |
ttat Ie had heard shots III that vicin-
ity i'll November although he was not /
sure about The exact dates. Mr.. Stacy |
had told him about the dog being shot |
ana had asked him which OF Mr. rTrue's
boys Gid it. ny. Goodwin thought Mr..
Stacy WAS pretty mad at the time ana
I'll l,a 4
that the boy would suffer for it He
did not hear him make any threats
against Mir. True and none against his
sou except that he would make him
suffer"
Frank Wyman testified that he had
never heard Mr.. Stacy make any
threats against Nj. True, but that they
had not spoken to each other for five
Years. Mr.. Goodwin had told him about
he dog being shot.
William i. Warren, one of the Sc
lectmen Of Benton, stated that COM
plants had been made to him about
the Stacy dogs and that Mr.. True was
orc of the complainants. He didn't
'now anything about Err Stacy threat
ening Mr. True. lie had talked the
matter over with the county attorney.
George a. Shorcy testified that he lives
,sithin about half q mile of EIr. Stacy
lie didn't know anything about the
;lreats being made by Mr. Stacy.
Mr.. Stacy, the respondent, then took
The staad. H. said that he had known
r.. True since he was boy ana that he
lad never threatened IL shoot him and
lad never had such Il thought. HIS dog
lad been shot outside the limits Of thr
DAD in the Reed field. He saw M. Truc's
eldest son do the shooting and that ne
tired once near Mr. Stacy's yard and
missed and then fred again down by the
Reed field and hit. lie said that they had
been shooting III his dogs all SIMMER
%nH that he should say they had fired
some - shots in all since last June Tho
dog that was shot was q pup about 10
mcHths old.
He never fired shot at the time. lie
was working. in the barn ana came out
Without anything in his hands when h
Ecard the shots. No shots had boon fred
from his doOlaard and no threats made
40 threats had been made from inside
the house when Mr. True passed n short
tine ago. Nothing like the incident de-
sc'ibed W. Mir. True, when several PEG
Me threatened him from inside the house
Lad occurred.
MIR. Stacy was very positive that he had