The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-12-23
ENTERED
HER ROOM BY
A LADDER

Recause he entered the room OF Marion
7. Hall on North Main street Berkley,
Taunton, and threatened 10 shoot her IL
sbe stirred, Harry Hanson. employed on
n neighboring farm. was yesterday In the
district court held in $500 for the grand
hrv on a charge Of breaking and enter
ing.
Miss Hall who Is II years old lives
with her mother and grandmother, Mrs
LYDIA H. Chase. on the latter's farm I'm
Berkley. According TO her version, When
she saw I'm the dim light form near
the window and an instant later a voice
which she recognized as Harris saIn
I'm here, and IL you move or STIR III
shoot you dead
a chair and minute later Mrs. Chase,
who had followed her upstairs with n
light. having heard the noise came INTO
Hanson crawled under the bed and Miss
Hall jumped into IL. ,..,,,
Mrs. Chase saw Hanson disappearing
under the bed and screamed MISS iiaIl
ran for help, and Hanson crawied from
under the bed and ran through the mousse
and disappeared.
FOUND GUN AND MASK.
Hanson was caught later In ms room
at the Caville farm. and sS a reNIb1eva' tbeve'
eearchlight and mask were found theie q,
A ladder covered with mud was also
found on the farm. ,o,,,,,
Sheriff Corey and other officers Hanson
said that he wished he had used ON
Mrs. Chase and the rest OF them wiz wiz
had made bother for him. lie declareu
that he would do so before he got throug
Later. ne admitted that he might as
we'll tell the truth. that he was lh w" ~"
ppo mand they had him dead 10 rlBhts
Tben he wanted 10 know why the matter
In telling her story before Judge Woods
this morning. Miss Hall said she hau
known Hanson for some time ana kne"
that her people did not want him TO keep
eomnanv with her, and that she did not
desire 10 herself She denied that she had
opened the window for him. or that ne
had ever been i'm her room before.
Hanson came 20 work on the Coville
farm three years ago and became quite
friendly with Miss Hall, II is said He was
welcome TO the Chase farm until ne want
ed to keep company with her and she
didn't care to.
SAYS SHE LET HIM IN.
Her father. Lou" Hall, a well-known
horseman In this city. says he told Han
son a year ago 10 keep away from the
girl. Miss Hall says she has not spoken
TO Hanson since last June.
Hanson tells a different story. He says
that sine he had been warned away from
the Chase home he had met Miss Han IRE
quently by appointment. She had given
him lnTlStuldS pTcHtuN pillN i'N'h'iS'
he says. and he also declares that he met
her Thursday in the basement OF her
house
She told him 20 get up 20 her window
he says and that night. like Romeo and
the lovers OF old he procured ladder and
climbed UP 10 the window
He gave the signal agreed upon by tap
ping the window pane and she opened the
window and propped II up with n book.
He further says that in accordance with
instructions which he gave her, she went
downstairs and told the folks she was go
ing to bed and then came back and as.
sisted him into the room.
They talked about half an hour when
Mrs. Chase attracted by the draft from
the open window came up with a light
lie went under the bed and she went into
n fully dressed. When Mrs. Chase
screamed he crawled out and made good
his escape.