News: Colby (30 Oct 1878)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Freeman, Hogan, Preston, Siegrist, Swarthout

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 10/29/2014

Originally published in the Colby Phonograph, 30 October, 1878

Two young men, Ike Preston and Mike Hogan, working in Lamont’s mill, just south of the village, visited this place on Monday night, and after having drinks with the boys and having a good time generally, asked John Siegrist to go and show them the way to the meat market.

John, being a quiet and accommodating young man, started with them, but just as soon as they got out where there was no one to interfere they commenced an assault on him that was brutal in the extreme, one holding him while the other done the pounding.

The young men were arrested last night by Deputy Sheriff Swarthout, and brought before Justice Freeman for examination, which was adjourned until tomorrow morning, and the young men placed under bail for their appearance at that time.

There has been too much of this knocking down and pounding of inoffensive citizens, in the past, and it is to be hoped that an example will be made of these festive youths.
           

 

 


© Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

 

Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not copying it to any other site without our permission.

 

Become a Clark County History Buff

 

Report Broken Links

A site created and maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
and supported by your generous donations.

 

Webmasters: Leon Konieczny, Tanya Paschke,

Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,

Crystal Wendt & Al Wessel

 

CLARK CO. WI HISTORY HOME PAGE