The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-19
Charles ! I'll Picked EN-
U r Bullet Crashed
INTO His House
PROVING GOOD CLUE
TO PERPETRATOR
Another in Series of Incl
dents on Trow Hill Oc-
Cured Yesterday

Another bullet nosed its way into a
house on Trow hill yesterday. When
the news percolated through the sub.
strata OF conversation on the hill in the
late afternoon, neighbors recalled the
fact that Schoolmaster Kent went into
the Cobble hill schoolhouse one morning
last fall and found leaden missile that
had embedded itself in the grammar
room wall after having passed through
one OF the windows. To Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Rowell, in whose house near the
Winch place the bullet came, yesterday
it served to recall number of similar
instances so numerous, by the way,
that they can scarcely tell Just how
many times they have lodged bullets in
the last year or so. Things have reached
frightful pass, they say, when man
can't be safe in his own house, and as
yesterdays experience made Mr. Rowell
Just little mite nervous, he decided it
was time to tell his story to the author.
tiles.
just how near the bullet came to hit
ting someone may be judged from Mr..
RowelFs recital of his wife's experience.
The couple were in the living room. IL
was late afternoon and Mrs Rowell stood
at the window. Without a warning. of
course, for the window was down and
the bullets little song as it sped along
ITS air line did not reach the ears of
those inside, one pane of glass was sud
denly shattered and the fragments struck
the woman full in the face. Almost at
the same instant something thudded
against the wall on the opposite side
of the room. Recently the husband has
been in poor health, but he rushed to the
window and thought he saw thin curl
OF smoke ascending from the edge of the
woods about eight rods away Calling
to a passerby in the road, he made his
way to the spot where the smoke was
seen and found two rifles of improved
pattern. In one was an empty cartridge
shell, but the other gun had not been
used. Mr.. Rowell took them home with
him and that night decided that some
thing must be done. The "details of the
story We're told to the authorities here
in the city last evening.
Around the whole affair there hedges
a halo of mystery. According to the
Rowells, their little girl was picking sun
flowers in the garden last fall, when a
bullet went tipping past her ear. Not
long before, Mr. Rowell himself had the
same trying experience He, too, was
in the garden and his narrow escape
from death came in the broad glare OF
the monday sun. The bullet came un-
near his head and the hum
ming sound as it cut the air was plain
ly audible above the dronng of the bees.
Not to be spared the unpleasant sensa-
ton of being target for some careless
or even evil minded marksman, Mrs.
Rowell stepped into the yard one day
last fall and heard the hiss of speeding
bullet. 1t was about the same time that
Mr.. Kent, the teacher, found chunk
Of lead over the blackboard at the
From the course it took.
It was figured At the time, that it would
have at least grazed one or more Of the
students. had the school been in session.
Whether the shooting is the work of
maliciously inclined person, or whether
he bullets in most instances have been
,pent, is a question the authorities are
working on. Two good clues to the
IDENTIFY of the person or persons who
lid the shooting yesterday are available
II the rifles which Mr. Rowell fetched
lome from the bushes. Among people
IN the hill there is tendency to believe
hat the same party is responsible for
III of the shooting. Anyhow this last
Incident has fustered good many folks
md pressure has been brought to bear in
he hope that the perpetrator may be
,rought to justice and served with salu-
arv punishment. The case in hand re-
minds people here in the city of the mar
ow escape which the young son of
feorge Morehouse encountered while
licking adder tongues on the East Mont
,elier road a few weeks since. The lad
vas hit by bird shot but was not Sc
iousIv iniured