Show ATTACK M MADE A it E N y U rl 11 U an b AI miss emma merritt throws intruder on floor and drives him from house shoots him with borrowed Bor roved revolver detling was wrought to a high pitch in certain portions of the community tuesday by bv the report that some scoundrel in human form entered the merritt ahme on main anthe on the preceding night opened all the doors ind id windows chloroformed chloro formed one of the oung women nomen and struggled with miss emma merritt until she brew threw him to the floor ind and he was compelled to flee fee in order to escape more serious I 1 injury n the intruders attack on the 3 oung in women omen is conceded to be one of the most dastardly things thing that have transpired in months to mar the peace and quiet of community the and there have been some rumors of a lynching lunching lyn ching ape if ine afi r succeed in ampre henaire the villain not content with having made this unpardonable attack and having ving been thwarted in his attempt to rob the young woman of her honor he returned to the house a few minutes later only to be checkmated check mated a second time his intended victim had in the meantime secured a revolver and as he was trying to force an entrance at the front window she pulled the trigger it is said and the bullet found lodgment in the night prowler prowlers 0 wrist my god my god said he as he be grasped his left wrist ran across the street and disappeared in the darkness we child childen en were at home alone said miss merritt aishe told of her experience with the intruder martha and one of the other girls aid a id I 1 were sleeping in the bed in the middle room and my other sisters were in the back room wren we wert tc bed we left a lighted lamp lamo on the table in our room when I 1 awoke a man was wagon on the bed he held me by the wrists and when I 1 tried to scream he be caught me by the throat the room was dark for he had put out the light As we struggled we woke my little sister martha she screamed and the man loosened his hold on me and caught her by the throat 1 I wrestled with him for a long while and martha hit him va with ith a shoe finally I 1 got him on the floor and when I 1 let him go he walked out of the front door he lit several matches to find his way through the front room one of the girls ran to the street and screamed and this brought marshal coons to the house I 1 told him N what hat had happened and he went back to the street and met a man who was walking in front of the house he looked like the man who had struggled with me mr coons asked him what he be wis was doing on the street he said that he was staying at the johnston ahouse house and biao A a out taking a walk I 1 guess he put up a good excuse and mr air coons let him go when mr air coons coon came bak back into the house he ga gave gae e me his gun A short time after he had left I 1 heird heard the man trying to get in at the front window I 1 v ent cut into the front room and saw sau him standing the window do when I 1 shot he held his left wrist and cried my god my god and crossed the street and ran south 1 I believe he chlo formed my sister lillie lillic who was sleeping in the back room when I 1 was struggling with the the man and after he lift left the first time we tried to wake her but ne me do it he had teen all through the house and had opened the windows v and doors and I 1 think he chloroformed chloro formed lillie marshal coons corroborates the story of miss merritt by saying that he was called to the house as stated and thit that he talked with the man on the street lie he says that the man was a stranger st ranzer but that he told a sible story concerning his and thus avoided arrest |