The New England Weekly Review

WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—Mr. Adams Was last night awakened by the sound of a loud noise which resembled shuffling, groans, like one in the agonies of death, and a tremendous crash of glass in the third story of his house, (Danforth street,) all of which appeared to come from the chamber where his son, about 13 years of age, slept. He arose from his bed to ascertain the cause of this disturbance. His first suspicions were that some person or persons had broken into the house, who were attempting to commit murder or to plunder property.

Mr. Adams went up stairs as soon as possible, into the chamber occupied by his son. The bed he found unoccupied, the room in some disturbance, and the window sash broken to pieces.— Looking out of the window, he saw his child standing on the ground, who, on being spoken to, answered in his usual tone of voice as though nothing had happened. The father ran down stairs immediately, and found the boy bleeding in both arms, approaching the front door to enter the house. The first words that struck the ears of the agonised parent were, "father my arms are broken." The boy was immediately taken into the house, a physician called, and on examination, it appeared that the only injury sustained was the laceration of the fleshy part of both arms!

The account that the son gives, is, that while dreaming, it appeared that some person had come into his chamber with the intention of murdering him. Affrighted he jumped out of bed and seemed to defend himself for a while with a chair, but finding this defence unsuccessful, and the assailant pressing onward with greater force, he made an attempt to escape by the window.

First, he run his arm through the glass, but this hole not being large enough to jump through, he took the chain, and beating the whole sash to pieces, immediately jumped out of the third story window to the ground. Strange to tell, not a bone was fractured. Though he fell on a picket gate, and though the gate was literally broken to pieces, yet the only injury he sustained was the laceration of his arms. He is now doing well, Portland Advertiser.