The daily sentinel., 1909-10-04
SAYS La FAIR WOULD KILL THE
CHILDREN.
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| i'll treated and whose minds, she al
leges. are being poisoned against her
The following is from the Colorado
4 Springs Gazette of Saturday:
a tragedy was narrowly aver ed
| Friday afternoon at Edgerton, lew
miles north of Colorado Springs, by
| Deputy Sheriff A. o. Taylor.
Just as an automobile containing
Mrs. Mary Massey and her brother.
| George Bryan, both of Grand juno
tion, was halted at the Massey ranch
by Bruce Massey, who leyeled shot
gun at the occupants of the auto,
Deputy Sheriff Taylor stepped from
a train and quickly put a quietus to
the threatened hostilities Massey
was disarmed and Bryan was arrested
on warrant sworn out in Justice
o. h. Dunnington's court last June
charging him with assaulting his l2-
year-old nephew, Eben Massey, son
of Mrs. Mary Massey. Bryan was
brought here, where Mrs. Massey Sc
cured his release on a $500 bond. He
will have a hearing Monday
Mrs Massey, who lived here for
many years before going to Grand
Junction, and Bryan went to her
brother-in-law's ranch at Edgerton to
secure possession of her two sons,
Weston and Eben, aged IL and l ?
years respectively. Massey, who had
received word of their intended visit
and purpose, was waiting for them
with a loaded shotgun While Mrs.
Massey and her brother were on their
way to Edgerton from Colorado
Springs. Massey's sister telephoned
the sheriff's office that Bryan. for
whom there was a warrant in Justice
Dunnington's court, was in Edgerton
Deputy Sheriff Taylor was at once
sent to arrest him.
After the murder of her husband,
Eben Massey, in Grand Junction
few years ago, Mrs. Massey sent her
two little sons to live with their uncle
at Edgerton. Recently. reports reach
ed here to the effect that the children
were being mlstreated and overwork-
ed on their uncle's ranch. She de
termined to rescue them and immed-
lately care here from Grand junction
with her brother.
The charge of assault lodged
against Bryan was made last summer
by Bruce Massey, when Bryan at
| tempted to liidnap Eben Massey from
the ranch, that the boy might be
taken to the bedside of his mother
who was dangerously ILL., Massey
claimed that Bryan struck the child
Mrs. Massey will start a suit at
once to gain possession of her chill
dren.
The second and still more sensa-
tion chapter of the developments at
Colorado Springs are told in Sundays
Colorado Springs Gazette as follows:
Testifying in Justice o. R Dun
nington's court yesterday afternoon
in the case of George Bryan, charged
with assault, Miss Ellen Massey
housekeeper at the Alamo hotel. de
clared that she had been trying to
keep the two small children of Mrs.
Massey of Grand Junction from their
mother. because She believed that the
nan who murdered their father would
kill them ii they were permitted to
return To Grand junction.
A jury found Bryan not guilty and
discharged him. Mrs. Massey. it is
understood will start proceedings in
the county court to compel the rela-
tives of her late husband to return
her children to her.
Miss Massey swore out warrant
in Justice Dunnington's court several
| months ago, charging Bryan with as
saulting his nephew, Weston Massey.
- years old. on July /, at the ranch
of Bruce Massey, near Edgerton, Colo.
| Bryan was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
| A. o. Taylor at Edgerton, Friday
noon, while he and Mrs. Massey. who
had gone there to obtain the latter's
]. children, We're being kept from the
children at the point of shotgun in
/ the hands of. Bruce Massey
Miss Massey was a most dramatic
witness, and at times while giving
her testimony she was unable to con-
lrol her feelings. Asked by Attorney