Bio: Krueger, Leslie (Awaiting Trial – 13 Feb 1919)

Contact: Ann Stevens
Email: ann@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Krueger, Weaver, Fenner, Heine

----Source: Neillsville Times (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 2/13/1919

Krueger, Leslie (Awaiting Trial – 13 Feb 1919)

Leslie Krueger was brought here from Camp Grant on Tuesday morning by a soldier guard and is now in the Clark County jail awaiting trial with his mother and brother on a charge of murder. Krueger had been at Rockford for some time in charge of the federal authorities, but it seems that the government thought that the charge of murder to be brought by Clark County would give him a longer term of imprisonment, if convicted, than that of draft evasion. Leslie will be given a preliminary examination in a short time and will no doubt be bound over to circuit court and it is very possible that the celebrated Krueger case will come to trial in a short time.

Krueger looked well, physically, when he stepped from the train Tuesday morning and was turned over to Sheriff Morris Weaver. The two soldiers who brought him were heavily armed and it is understood had instructions to shoot to kill if their prisoner made an effort to escape. They were Sergt. Harry Fenner and Private Wm. Heine.