Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23
The Outrage at New Lisbon.

chronicle so fragrant an outrage upon
decency and the rights of the least in
community, as that perpetrated at
New Lisbon onl y week or two ago.
Something like two weeks ago Mrs
Burdick residing at Wausau had occa-
sion to visit friends at Rochester, Mimi.
She proceeded via. Valley Road to
Tomah, reaching that point about 9
o'clock in the evening. The same
evening, at about 7 o'clock, a woman
and succeeded in passing a raised
check, raised from 1918 to $50.15
upon one Hurd, merchant at New
Lisbon, distance some twelve or fifteen
miles awey. On Mrs. Burdick's re-
turn from Rochester on Saturday, just
as she was about to take the train for
Wausau, she was rudely taken into
custody by Marshal Cash Of New Lis
bon, as the offending woman who had
passed the altered check. The des-
cription given of the person did not in
the least resemble Mrs. B., neither in
contour Of feature or person nor in
dress, yet the obstinate and fendish
marshal must needs tax her into Gus
tody, although she offered to prove
then and there an abb, which to a
reasonable man would have been sufi-
cient to warrant her immediate release.
But the drunken Cash was memorable,
and Mrs. b. was consigned to a room
for safe keeping, and treated as a COM
mon felon, till she could be taken to
New Lisbon. On the arrival of the
train at the Lisbon depot a crowd of
impairment gazers had assembled, and
Mrs. B. was subjected to taunts and
abuse, and obscene and blasphemous
remarks, while she was jostled along
to the Georgia House, a house noted
for it's low standing and debauchery
Here she was unprotected, and treated
more like a brute than human being.
Disreputable persons were permitted to
crowd themselves into her presence and
even to 90 SO far as to insult her with
language fit onl y to be repeated in q
brothel. Her room was not sacred,
and no protection Of the law usually
accorded to the worst criminal was
given. After days of WEAKNESS and
insult, subjected to the tender mercies
Of as bloated an old fend as ever satan
has gone into ecstacies over, whose in
itials are CASH, her examination came.
Even then, though defended by Mr..
L. p. Powers. and Mr.. Hatch of New
Lisbon, who did everything that could
be done to prove her entire innocence,
and did shoe conclusively that she
was miles away when the crime was
committed, proving an abb that in
any other than Judge Buffers court
would have been ficient to have
given her an instant discharge, the
minions of the law were constrained
to hold her still for further persecution
Old Cash had good thing He had
woman and he was her master, and
instead of being her protector, he
made her target for the shafts of
ridicule and insult of New Lisbon
mob.
We have no room to give 1.-THE of
the injustice, -the hellishness of that
week of suspense, when she was de-
MED the presence of friends, while the
lowest and meanest were permitted to
abuse and insult her by words and
gestures which decency compels us to
make no mention OF.
Judge Buffers court was bedlam.
Under the August-eye of the Law,
this shameless judge permitted Mrs
B. to be subjected to such remarks as
these: go, she's cheeky" ''See
how she brasses it OUT ssShe's a
cheeky one" ''See how red her ear
is, while the dignifed fool, dispenser
of justice. made no attempt to protect
her from the rude assaults of the de-
PRAYED mob. We conjecture there is
no contempt of court with Esq
Butler. He ought to have a calls
liver hung about his judicial neck by
the bowel of a hyena.
After her release, which was more
forced than otherwise, strange as it
may seem, a second arrest was made
by Marshal Buckly, of Madison, a.
mainiature CASH. who is only excelled
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