Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-09-30
Jefferson.

Mr. Zohr,aut. proprietor of the jefferson
House, in this village, effected sale of that
entire property last week to Mr.. William
Stamrn, of Racine, and as the result of this
sale we understood that Mr.. Zohrlaut be-
comes the owner of a splendid farm of 200
acres in Walworth county. near the viii
II lage Of Burlington, in this state. By the
terms Of the contract the ne proprietor
Twill take possession of the House and pro-
perty On the first day of October next.
The II o'clock freight train, going south,
yesterday, run over a cow near the old
brick yard on the fraction smashing both
OF her hind legs We understand the COW
was owned by John Baumgartner, of this
village.
Would it not be we'll for our Village
Board to pass an ordinance prohibiting the
running at large of cows as we'll during the
day time as at night?
In the Circuit Court, last week, the ca Sc
of the State against George Walker, for
forgery, was tried and the prisoner found
guilty. This young man was sent up from
Justice Bruett's Court for trial, sometime
last spring. He hal been employed by Mr..
D. Johnson as groomsnan, for some time,
but had ''got on spree" habit quite COM
m on with him, and in a desire to raise
''little needfup' he stepped into the mill of
Johnson & Wolf found blank check by
the desk which he took and filled up to the
amount of $4,000 and signed the name of
"Johnson & Wolf to it, and then present.
ed it at the National Bank Of Jefferson for
payment; but Mr.. Mcmahon discovered the
forgery and sent him away. He then took
the check to Mr.. T. Whipple, and by tell
ing him ''little stray" succeeded in getting
an advance of three or four dollars on it.
On Monday morning last, the prisoner was
sentenced to three years in the State prison,
the LIST and I'd days of January during the
term to be solitary confinement.
The State against Frederick Zellmen, for
the murder of his wife last spring was also
tried last week. A considerable interest
was manifested in this case which occupied
the whole of Friday and Saturday. The
Sheriff was ordered to strictly guard the
jury night and day that no outside infu-
enee might be brought to bear upon them.
Mr.. Zellmer, we believe, resides in the town
of Concord. At the time the facts in th 8
case were brought out before Justice Bruett,
the county papers made mention Of it as a
most brutal transaction, and such it seems
to be although there was no evidence
tending TO show willful murder,-on the
contrary, it seems that Mr. Zellmer and
his wife, had lived very happily together
that they were very fond of each other
and that he was very much grieved at her
death-that what he did do be innocently
admitted, and told how he done it from the
beginning to the end, in straight forward
way-and that his wife consented to have
it done. in fact, she fairly prayed for him to
do it to save her life. That Mr.. Zellmer
was guilty Of willful murder we did not
then, nor now, believe. But we believe
him to be guilty of criminal carelessness
and misery greed. and through desire on
his part and on the part of his wife to save
the expense of ply stefan, he attempted to
do what no one but thoroughly competent
physician should Go.-and the death of his
VII was the consequences We believe this
to be the worst case of stupidity and ignor-
ance on record. The verdict of the Jury
was 'snot guilty" -Banner