Connecticut western news., 1915-09-30
ATTEMPTED MURDER
Drunken Father Shoots His Daughter
 Through the Body.


 Frederick Chatfield, of East Canaan, a veteran of the Civil War, aged 72, is in Litchfield jail awaiting the outcome of injuries inflicted upon his daughter, Katherine Chatfield. aged 22, whom he shot through the body with revolver. last Wednesday night
 The affair has created considerable sensation and has been the topic of local discussion since. According to the details of the story as they have sifted out from among the confusion of rumors, Chatfield had been ill this viii lage and had been drinking. Abont s o'clock he engaged Joseph Allyn to carry him home in his jitney. When the daughter heard the automobile come into the yard, she told her mother, who was lying in bed sick, and the latter immediately bolted the door between her room and the sitting room. Chat field shouted that he wanted to see his wife but the daughter told him that she was sick and that he could not see her. Shortly after that Mrs. Chatfield heard the shot that wounded the girl. She unF olted the door and her husband en- tered the room fourishing a revolver and she believes that he intended to shoot her if possible. She grabbed his arm and took the revolver away from him. The daughter rushed into the room and the two women knocked the man to the floor. He got on his feet again and knocked his daughte: down, who already had been shot through the body, and pounded her. Joseph Allyn, who brought Chatfield home, was filling the radiator of the machine with water in the Chatfield yard when the shot was l fired. He turned around and as he did so he saw Katherine Chatfeld in the doorway. He immediately ran to E. $. Roberts house, some distance away and telephoned to Constable Rhoades | Dr. Pinney, of Norfolk, also was sum, moned.
 Constable Rhoades went imm ediately to the scene and hegan a search for Chatfield, who had fled, but was unable to get trace of him at that time. The wounded young woman was hur ried to the Winsted Hospital, where it was found that the bullet, from the B. calibre revolver, had penetrated lung, and 1t was at first feared the injury would prove immediately fatal. Later reports indicate that she will probably recover, if nc complications set in. The search for Chatfield was con. | tjnued by Rhoades and other officers during the next day, but he was not found, and it was thought he had killed 1 1, that his end was not far off.
 Friday morning, however the fugi- tive was found hiding in his sons barn. up near Wood Creek, and was given Foyer into the custody of Constable Rhoades, who brought him to the Ga naan lookup. His face was frightfully bruised, it was said as a result of the pounding which his wounded daughter had given him with the heel of a shoe Chatfield claimed, however, that he got most of his bruises by falling off high rock in the woods.
 He was brought before Justice Ford Friday, who held him ill $10, 900 bonds as stated above. The prisoner was | familiarly known as "Axhelve Chat feld," as he made his living by making and selling axhelves. He is said to have been quarrelsome when intoxicat- ed, and his family lived in terror of him.
 He had recently been an inmate of the Soldiers Home in Noroton for about five months, but left that place and went to North Norfolk to live with his son. He professes ignorance of the occurrences of Wednesday night, and professes to love his daughter above all people on earth.