The Monitor, Concord, NH, 10/6/81

Monday, February 1, 1982

Frank Hutchinson, 69, hid in the back room of his Unity, N.H., house as a young burglar, who police later said was hallucinating on drugs, broke through the front door. But when the housebreaker neared his hiding place, Hutchinson fired his .38 pistol, wounding the intruder in the abdomen.

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