Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
Joseph Grady Gets Bullet
Through Left Arm
While Passing Cardinal House,
Near Snowp|ow, Saturday.
No Arrest as Yet, But Interesting
Developments Expected.

ploW," was brought to the attention OF
the public early Saturday evening
through being the scene of a shooting
affair which was apparently carried out
with intent to Kill. and while owing
probably to the darkness the person
shot at received wound which is not
considered necessarily dangerous. had
the nne who did the shooting taken bet
ter aim the story of the affair might
have been very different.
The locality mentioned is, like the
famous "Hayseed avenue" which also
adjoi.ls the Home reservation but is
located farther TO the eastward. well
known TO the police of Augusta and
shrriffs of this section of kennthec
county on account of the Illegal liquor
traffic, and the raids in search of the
contrabanci have in the past been
many.
The SnoWploW has been much in the
public eye Of late because of the
searches for liquor on the part of City
Mar. hal Fletcher and his officers, Of the
Cardinal house. so-called, near the
north entrance to the Home rcserva-
| ton, With the result that Frank Cardi-
nal the owner of the place is in Jail
| awaiting trial at the present term OF
the superior court on a charge of main
| tanning liquor nuisance.
| It was in front Of the Cardinal house
| that the shooting occurred, and the
| victim is Joseph Grady, age 10 years,
and said to belong in Whitefield, who
| had been working for Charles Shaw on
/ tho Spring road.
From information thus far secured by
the police Grady and C. L. Shaw, aged
| IS years and a son of Charles Shaw,
were passing along the road soon af-
ter $50 Saturday evening, and when
| opposite the Cardinal house three shots
were fired in the darkness, the third
Of which struck young Grady in the
| left arm.
The two boys hurried to the house of
Charles a. Jones, who lives across the
road from the Cardinal place, where
Grady showed the wound in his arm
and then the two went to the Home
| hospital. where the wound was dress
ed. Meanwhile Mr. Jones notified the
| police and City Marshal Fletcher and
| Night officer Ferran soon left for To-
| gus in 4 team.
| On arriving at the Home the officers
went at once to the hospital, but the
boys, after Grady's wound had been
dressed, had gone back to Shaw's,
where they were found by the officers
! later Drs. Ridlon and Stinson of the
/ force Of surgeons at the Home, told
| Marshal Fletcher that the wound in
Grady's arm was a small one and was
| probably due to a - caliber bullet.
| which had penetrated the flesh near
| the elbow and after striking the bone
| had glanced, coming out Of the other
side OF the arm. about three inches be-
| low the point at which it entered. The
! bullet was not found.
When seen at the Shaw house and
asked about the shooting Grady told
! City Marshal Fletcher that he and
young Shaw We're passing along the
road and when opposite the Cardinal
place he heard two pistol shots fired
but took no particular notice of them;
that he then heard q third shot and
felt something strike his arm, and he
feli; that he called to Shaw who was
| walking just ahead Of him, saying that
| he was shot in the arm, and that the
two then made their way to the Jones
house, where his wound was examined
after which they hurried off to tho
! Home hospital Grady claimed to the
marshal that he was not acquainted
with anyone in the Cardinal house.
I &. l.. Shaw's story TO the marsha
was mat he had head the shots and or
looking round saw that the flashe:
from tire pistol came from a mario"
SPACE or alleyway between the stable
and the barber shop on the Cardlna
place: that he started to run. anc
Grady called to him telling him that he
had been shot. The balance of his stor!
was the same as that told by Grady.
The two officers then went to th'
Cardinal house. which is now occupied
by Charles Rhodes, arriving there a
about $40. but found that the house
hold had retired for the night. The.
were aroused. however. and were fount
: to number four people, Mr.. and Mrs
Rhodes and Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Carr.
They were asked about the srootins
: but disolaimed all knowledge Of it
, had not heard any shots and did no
know that any had been fired; neither
did they know that anyone had beer
shot. When asked what they had beer
doing at the time that the shooting
occurred they claimed that they were
in the dining room eating supper ant
( chewing the rag" as they expressed
( it. Charles Jones and son, VINO live
on the opposite side Of the road, botl
: heard the shots.
Up to last night the police had not
: secured a clue of sufficient strength t
warrant an arrest being made. but they
are still working on the case and it is
: not unlikely that some interesting de
velopments may be forthcoming today
Architect A. G. Wing is making The
/ drawings for a schoolhouse which il
, to be built in the town Of Readfi"l'
, during the coming season, and Will
: it will not be a large building tn
: style of architecture shows that
will be very neat in appearance an
we'll arranged for the use for whicl
| IT. is intended. The building will be
r single story in height, 26x36 feet C