Putnam patriot., 1916-10-06
DELOR DUMAS
 SHOT IN FRANCE
No Details of Shooting Received by Rel
 atiyes. Later Advises Expected
Is in Military Hospital No. ls, Cologne
Wife and Parents Live in Putnam


 A telegram was received here Sun' day by Mir. and Mrs. Adelard Dumas, smith street, that their son, Beior Du- mas. 27. had been shot through the head, September 18th, and was in military hospitsl No. 13, at Cologne, France. No details of the shooting or inc injury received was contained in the dispatch.
 A later dispatch received Thursday stated that further news would follow soon. i've ,have wired London for more information" the dispatch read. This dispatch came from the head ouarters of the Canadian regiment, to which Dumas belonged, at Ottowa. and more details are expected by rela- tives here.
 Dumas is the son-in-law of George Farley, Providence street. After her husband enlisted Mrs. Dumas went to Canada and staid for some time re- ceiving half pay from the English government.
 Dumas is well known in Putnam, especially in the north end of the city. He had some reputation as boxer and was ready to fight at the drop of hat. He was before the Putnam city court several times for assault.
 On the afternoon of July 18th, 1913, in nf Brady's news room on Front street talking in loud tones and using in- decent language. R. H. Bradley re- monstraled with him and he told Mir. Bradley he would talk all he pleased. Captain John Murray of the police de- partment was notified.
 Captain Murray went to the place and told Dumas to stop and Dumas said he, the captain, couldn't stop hlm. The captain then told Dumas he was under arrest. The captain reached out to take hold of Dumas and as he did so Dumas punched him in the mouth cutting his lip. The captain 'then erappled with the man and in the
 
 struggle the captain was put through the plate Iglass window in the store. rhe captains uniform was badly cut bv the edges of the glass and he real ized he was in precarious condltlon' He clung to ais prisoner and called TOT assistance. Two men went to help him and after a struggle all the way to the police station Dumas was landed behind the bars.
 The following Monday morning there was such a crowd in the court room that the prisoner twas arralgned in the large room up stairs. He plead guilty to breach of the peace, assault, resisting an officer and using aousiVe language. He was sentenced to pay fine of SlO0 and costs,of Sl4.s9 ana to nine months in jail.
 Dumas brsgged to some of his friends that the jail could not hold him. lie made hls threat to escape good. oh Friday morning, August 18th he broke out. Dumas loosened a bar Tn ms celi and climbed upiseveral tiefs oi ceiis, pried of piece of the corrugated Iron ceiling and made his way to the attic, thence to the roof of the jail. It was thought his decent from the roof was py the outside iron bars on the Jaii windows.
 This was the last seen of Dumas In this section. It soon became iuihofeu that he had enlisted in Canadian re- giment and had gotten into some sort of trouble with a superiar officer Just what this was was not learned by any except his relatives. He was next heard from as at the front ID the European war.