The Daily Oklahoman
      November 30, 1998

      Blind man subdues attackers with chain saw
         STILWELL, Okla. (AP)  _ Adair County officials say two men who
      broke into a blind man's home were seriously injured when the man
      defended his family with a chain saw.
         Injuries were about all the two men took with them following the
      altercation with J.R. Colston on Thanksgiving.
         "I don't think they got away with anything except their lives,"
      said Undersheriff Gary Sinclair.
         Colston's brother, Raymond Colston, said the incident began about
      noon when the two men started throwing rocks through windows of
      Colston's rented house southeast of Stilwell.
         Family members said by the time the men forced their way inside,
      the family was frantically looking for weapons to defend themselves.
         "He did the only thing he could and got a chain saw after them,"
      said Bonnie Colston, his mother.
         Sinclair said both men ended up with serious injuries. One was
 sent
      to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa and another went to the Stilwell
      hospital. The Adair County Sheriff's Department would not identify
 the
      men. Sinclair said he expected charges to be filed against the
      intruders sometime next week.
         Family members said Colston, 50, blind since birth, was injured
      when one attacker hit him in the back.

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