The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1908-01-11
MURDER0US HIGHWAYMAN
EXCITES GEORGIAVILLE
William H. Dahan, Secondhand In Bernon Mills
Weave Shop Attacked by Robber With Gas Pipe
and Badly Injured-Assailant May Be tbs Green
Vile Murderer.

| The village OF Georgiaville was all ex-
| element this morning when it became
| known that William IL. bahama second
| hand i'm the weave shop at the Ber-
non mills was clubbed over the head with
| a big iron bar as he was returning home
| last night and that his assailant attempt
ed to rob him OF his weeks wages.
The robbery coming as II did on pay
night and just a week after the murder
OF Miss Mary Eddy. a Greenville mill
hand has caused considerable agitation
throughout the countryside hereabouts
Georgiaville is but four miles from
Greenville, the scene of last Fridays hor-
rible crime.
Dahan was attended by physician
this morning but he is still in dazed
condition and could hardly tell the police
officers his story of the hold-up. He will
be taken. II is said, TO a Boston special
ist sometime today.
After receiving his weekly pay envelope
at the mill last evening he went directly
home TO supper but returned TO the VIII
lage early i'm the evening. He went 10 the
barber shop kept by William Bucklin ana
then to the variety store, owned by VIII
liam Whipple Here he paid small bill
which was due Mr.. Whipple. Dahan
STAYED about the store until shortly ar
ter 9 o'clock when he said that he was
going home He had been in excellent
spirits all the evening and is temperate.
DIDN'T SEE ANYBODY.
Dahan boards with Mrs. Abbie Rey-
nolds on the Farnum Turnpike. According
TO his own story. which he told to the
OFFICER this morning, he did not see any
body after he left the store. lie had got
TO a point on the Pike. near the residence
OF DR. l. s. Cooke. when all of a sudden
he was dubbed across the race with
heavy instrument. The night was dark
and he did not see or even hear the APP
proach or escape OF his assailant Dahan
remembers falling face downward on tne
road. He says that he must have lain
there for two hours before he gained con-
sciousness All ne thought OF was 10 get
10 his room He says that he did not real
ize what had happened.
when he reached the boarding house he
crawled up stairs TO his room ana lnLew
himself down upon the bed. lie was
found by the landlady this mornlns' ~,
Cooke who lives not great d!s1ah-a
away. was summoned. tie found thh'
Dahan's forehead mad been spilt open
and that the lett side of has fa-c was tsi-
ribly bruised. There was long sasn un-
Ger toe mans left eye. Danan hS1o
slightly affected. and wnen ne told hla
pauses' put his hand TO his head and
seemed 10 be trying To collect LiS
HIS MONEY HIDDEN.
in bills tucked away I'm his shoe when
the robber did not get. About 81 AZ
change was distributed about the iAan
pockets This was gone today.
Town Sergt JeuCks smith mas put
Constablcs william Il. l.attun, uusiaf
johnson and Richard Teb'n OF she tass,
'They are roarchlna abuut She fseHc - I
the hold-up, which allost eliminated lii /
another murdef within The llnlss "a tiis /
town VI Smthnvld,
The only olive which has been fguhd 1
that can ~ hnS way throw ifht 1nbi tis I
Ideutitr OF tho rnbhef IVES discovered 90
ter I'm the mornina by james hrdfsvF A l
milkman. About hundred yarAH away /
from the spot whore bnhrn war Hir"sh, /
Andrews found a hla iron rtlrh n n ~ |
inches ln lcngth aud about thrrssfpuriha /
if an inch ia thickness, Nnurhy Nan Y
covered with blood, The /
iandke rchiet II a maa'r, while use lfnn 4
lub Is evidently a piece OF inill risekins l
,ry which had been thrown ou' lhts Tie /
scrap heap. -
ROBBERY THE MOTIVE.
Dahan is a we'll respected young man !