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Speakers
By Nathan Dykeman
Journal staff writer
Red Men's Abram V. Smith
...honors Indian hero Nimham
extol American Indian
CrLtNHAM—Several speakers, in-
cluding former Congressman
Hamilton Fish Sr., Newburgh, extoll-
ed Capt. Daniel Nimham, an
American Indian who gave his life in
the American Revolution, at a
ceremony at the Red Men's hall
Thursday, the 200th anniversary of
his death.
Fish, a member of the
Mawenawasigh Tribe of Red Men for
52 years, told how Nimham, bitter
against the British because of a long
property fight with the Loyalist
Philipse family in Dutchess County,
was overwhelmed by a British
cavalry unit at Kingsbridge and was
killed on Aug. 31, 1778.
Turning to the current situation in
America, Fish said he was "surpris-
ed" to find himself agreeing with
President Carter's veto of defense
funds which would go for what he
termed "sitting duck" aircraft
survival of the American people and
the United States is.in jeopardy.
Others who told about Nimham,
who lived in what is now the southern
part of Dutchess County and Putnam
County, were Arthur Carver of the
Town of Poughkeepsie, representing
both the Dutchess Philatelic Society,
which has put out a special Nimham
stamp, and the Fishkill Historical
Society, and William Henke, Wapp-
ingers Falls, a member of the
Nimham District Boy Scouts ex
ecutive board.
Several scouts, cubs and sco,
leaders from the Nimham distri
also attended, as did Mayor Georl
Tomlinson of Beacon, a member
the Red Men, Beacon historian
Spencer Barnett and several post
officials.
Paul McCarroll of the Red M
was master of ceremonies and P,
Great Sachem Eugene Smil
Beacon, led a ceremony for t
heroic American Indian.
Robbery try ends in panic
Then the diners calmly contim
their meals, Briggs said.
The attempted armed robbery
curred at about 9:30 Thursday nil
Briggs said.
The two men who entered the
chert, one of which was armed wi
shotgun, ordered the cooks
waitresses into the main dii
room, Briggs said, while two n
came in the frontdoor:.
It seemed like a perfect plan: two
of the would-be robbers entered the
Mill House Restaurant in the City of
Poughkeepsie by the front door, and
two others came through the back
kitchen door, according to the police.
But when the four young bandits
got inside, they apparently recogniz-
ed off-duty patrolman Jerome
rlrnmmas as one of the customers,