Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-03-21
Woodman the Banner Town OF Grant
County.

In reply to your correspondent.
letter of March IA, rs, in relation te
the excitement of our place, we are
supposed to be a miserable set of PEG
pie by our sister towns of the County
Not denying but that we have some
hard characters here az well as other
places, as to the shooting of Lyman
Bangs on the evening of the 18th Of
March, which is claimed to be iustifi
able in Mr.. Edmund Cole for so doing
by a portion of the villagers who
claim to be respectable persons, and
who belong to the upper crust of our
town Even some of the ladies' said
If he, Cole, couldn't get away they
would help him away, which shows
very plainly the feeling of our place
and shows to the people generally
that our village is not very we'll or.
ganized. They will uphold~the kill
ing of man in cold blood but il
there is frivolous offense comes up
the ministerials are ready to prose-
cute it without Judge or Jurisdiction
which the people of Grant County
know about $500 or $1,000 to their
satisfaction, the last twelve months,
through the influence of j. l.. Parker.
On the 9Th day of February the town
Board revoked Lewis Adkins saloon
license. Adkins took an appeal to
the Circuit Court by writ Of certio-
rari and went on selling liquor as be.
fore as he was advised by his counsel
until his time would expire. J. r..
Parker made complaint before Esq,
Baldwin, of Lancaster that Adkins
was selling liquor without a license.
The summons of the Board did not
run in the name Of the State of Wis
consin, as the law requires that all
processes must issue. Therefore the
Board had no jurisdiction of the case
but went on and revoked his license.
Adkins was arrested by the Deputy
Sheriff Willis of Boscobel; was ia
ken to Lancaster and fned So and
costs of suit.
We do not consider that Mr.. Cole
was a very respectable person for
shooting man without cause and
not in self defense, besides he stole a
revolver and lit out to parts unknown
MIR. Cole had not been paid off as re
ported. Cole and Adkins were on
good terms. There was no prejudice
on account of Cole being witness
against Adkins. Bangs was not sho,
under the ribs as reported but about
% inches above, and to the right OIL
the pit of the stomach and through the
breast bone, probably through the liv
er. The ball is not yet extracted
Bangs is on the Improvement. There
was warrant issued by one of oul
ministerials and placed in the hands
of proper officer, which we hope by
little cunning will capture the prize
that is most in demand at this time
to be dealt with according to law anG
see whether he cannot be convicted o
murder. We wish the correspondent
would name some Of the leaders o
the Bangs clique as the moral par
call it. We presume there are Others
deserve the fate of Mr.. Bangs.
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The writer of the above does not appear t.
be aware of the fact that what was said of tn
Woodman shooting scrape was said editorial
| ly. The nforma ton was sent to us soon afte
the shooting occurred and may not be entire
ly accurate. The main facts, however, hav
been corroborated to US by numbers of per
| sons here from Woodman since that time. w
gave only a fraction of the information re
ceived and we have left unpublished one sen
tence of the above letter. This writer tell
us that his village has "hard characters" an
it has an supper crust" or those who ca
themselves respectable. We wish he woul
| give us list of both classes and get them a
to subscribe for the HERALD and then we wi
publish them and everybody can see to whic
side his neighbor belongs. Let us have peac
in Woodman.