This 1891 map of the Town of Strafford, NH shows the approximate location — known locally as "Sodum Road" or "Sodum Plac" - near the Mohawk River, where Deputy Smith was wounded by Julius H. McArthur.

The former "John Dill Place" continues to exist and is a private residence located at 647 Route 202 in the Town of Barrington, NH. The present residents are not related to the Dill, Cater or Smith families.

Calef’s County Store is still in business near the intersection of Route 9 and Route 125 in Barrington, NH. In late April of 1891, Julius H. McArthur, posing as a salesman, took up lodging at this store and later stole two prize horses and a buggy belonging to a member of the Calef family.

Photos by Deputy Paul B. Rowe, Strafford County Sheriff’s Office

Deputy Charles E. Smith’s final resting place after succumbing to medical complications and infection from the gunshot wound resulting from a pistol discharged by one Julius H. McArthur in the Town of Strafford. McArthur had two stolen horses and a buggy with him at the time, and was attempting to flee with them to Haverhill, Massachusetts.

The left side of the Cater Monument lists the Smith Family members buried in the Cater Cemetery. Deputy Charles E. Smith, 47 years, 6 months, 3 days; his wife, Ellen J., who remarried to a Walter Beebe, 1851 to 1914; their child, Jasper L., who died at the age of 2 years on September 13, 1880.

The Daniel Cater Family Cemetery is marked with a large monument with the Cater and Smith family names engraved upon it. The front lists Daniel Cater, 72 years of age, who died on April 8, 1895, his wife, Sarah H. and a Henry F. Cater, born on June 4, 1856 and died on July 24, 1915.

Strafford Ridge and turned easterly down over the ridge to the farm of E. R. Smith where he turned left on the Sodum Road toward Second Crown Point Road. He then turned into the woods and hid the horses and buggy until nightfall. Early the next morning the thief started to drive the horses to Haverhill but miscalculated the distance. It was daybreak by the time he reached Strafford Ridge so he decided to retrace his steps down over the ridge to his hideout. James Henry Foss planned to load a car of lumber that morning at Barrington Depot and to pick up a Mr. Shepard on the way. Shepard heard the team of the thief and looked out the window as it went by, thinking it might be Foss. Romanzo Smith also saw the team go by. Foss and Shepard did not think too much about the incident until they arrived at Barrington Depot where there was a è