The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-19
Murders and Lynch,ng In wisconsin.


TWO MEN SHOT DEAD AND ANOTHER hoBBKD AND
HANGED, BY A PARTY OF FOUR HUNDRED MEN.
Iron the Marquette, Wisconsin, Mercury, February 90
The Land Claim difficulties, between Messrs Furman
and Cartwright which than year ago terminated in
the murder of the former had hardly passed from
tce among the chroncled tragedians the day
are again called upon to announce another similar
that neghborhood rendered shocking that
men have been murdered in cold blood-two men shot
and one hung-srung up in regular California STYLE till
dead. The facts OF the Cartwright and Furman ARRAY
have gone to the country the latter shot pierced
with two balls from the effect of which he survived but
short time Cartwright was arrested for the act and
lodged in jail to await his trial at the last term Of the
Waushara Circuit Court the trial OF the
nued TO the coming May term and the prisoner remand
ed back to jail Ever since the murder of Furman the
greatest indignation has prevailed in that neghborhool
against Cartwright Last week he bailed out and
against remonstrances returned home with the
ayowed determinaon 1t Is said to avenge himself in
the death Of others
When it ascertained that he was in their midst
the inhabitants to the number OF hundred repaired
to his residence intent upon lynchng him. He had
taken refuge in the chamber and epeng their advances
shot from his retreat and killed two of the paryJames
Iangdon, who leaves wife and child and Mr.. Troop
both of middle age; and then being sensible that fur
ther was useless himself into the
hands of officer with the assurance of protection
thence he was removed to Justices Office for exam
nation
BY this body of men he was forciby taken from the
officers, tied hand and foot and but short distance
from the place where he SEIZED and suspended by
the neck until dead He was hanged last Sunday about
5o'coek in the afternoon, and the body allowed to
remain until about TO- when the friends permitted
to remove it. Mr. G. about sixty years of age
Thus within year have four lives been sacrificed,
all for the paltry item of forty claim May not
in the county Of Waushara will long be remembered
the Bloody Ground"
A correspondent the Milwaukee Sentinel gives the
following account Of this horrible tragedy
There has been quite upon the Indian land
80 miles west of this village within the last few days
the and result of which item Of news you
and your readers may be interested in learning Frede
rick Cartwright indicted in the Wausra Circuit for the
murder of Peter s. Fur,nan was recently admitted to
rnctiO N he mur laws nv
Commissioner Buttck of Oshkosh and last week pass
ed through this village en- route to his home and family
upon the Indian land While in this village his friends
and counsel urged him not to return to his home il be
ing in the same neghborhood of the late Furman fear
ing that the friends Of Iurman would raise a mob AMI
lynch him; but Cartwright fearless and determined
to visit his family from whom he had been absent for
more than year. He left this village Friday
ing last and reached his home in the evening of that
day on the night following hostilities commenced.
About sixty men surrounded his residence log house.
and some three four of the leaders entered and in
CURED of the family for Cartwright His wife replied that
she did not know where he was; upon this they opened
the door leading up stairs and saw Cartwright standing
at the head thereof, armed with musiet; Cartwright
first spoke ordering them to come farther but
needing him they rushed up and Cartwright red killing
the foremost Instantly They then went outside and
troop led the way setting fire to the house and while
in the act of filing wood and rubbish against it for that
purpose received charge of buck shot in his chest of
which he died the next morning. The rioters then
abandoned firing the house and sent number of their
party for officers to arrest Cartwright, the balance
manning guard during the night to prevent Carwrghts
escape
The next day about noon the officers, consisting Of
constable and justice Of the peace arrived and order
ed Cartwright to deliver himself up he replied that he
would If they would protect him from the mob The Of
cers him protection from the violence Of the
mob and he then himself unarmed into
custody The officers took him to one Waterman a JUS
tce of the peace about four miles distant for examna
ton but had scarcely arrived there when the rioters
nforccd by forty fifty desperadoesrom the pinery
again nterfered took Cartwright from the hands of the
officers bound him. and strung him up upon the nearest
convenient tree where he hung until about nine O'Clock
Sunday evening, when his friends took down his body
and conveyed it to his family.
This terminates of the deadest of the Indian land
claim quaels say terminates for ii Is quite question
able whether the Grand Jury of the Unity of Waushar
will think it worth while to punish the executoners Of
last night.