Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28

for some time, was the father. Judge.
half crazed with the disgrace and shame
started for town and entered complaint
against Gadlin. Tuesday afternoon
Justice Baldwin and Deputy Richards
started out to arrest the negro. Arriv-
ing at the house the Justice went in to
write out formal complaint for the girl
to sign, while Richards went down to
''the grubbingn to get Gadlin. The
latter was found and made no resist
ance to coming with the officer, only
asking the privilege of changing his
clothes, which was granted. He occu-
pied room at one side of the house
and as he came out Judge, who had re-
turned, asked him if the child was his.
Cabin replied that If it looked like
him he would support it.
Judge answered that was not the ques-
ton, and repeated his former inquiry.
To this Gadlin made no answer. Judge
then turned to the girl and asked who
the father was. She answered, Gadlin.
That's enough" cried the enraged
parent. and suddenly producing an ak,
commenced an attack on Gadlin, trying
to hew him down. Deputy Richards
sprang to the rescue and then ensued
fierce struggle for the'ax between the
officer and the half crazed man. Back
wards and forwards they went, the
negro lodging behind Richards and
thus backed out the door. Gadlin was
ordered to run, but seemed chained by
terror to the spot
During this fracas and in fact before,
party of interested spectators had
been sitting down on the edge of the
woods near the house. They were John
Judge and son, and Pat Battle and son.
They had not spoken word and had
made no demonstrations. Just after
Richards commanded the negro to run
shot was fired, the charge going so
close to the officer that he felt the wind
on his neck and thought for a moment
that he had been hit But he had no
time to look about as the ak in the
hands of the Infatuated Irishman was
playing him lively game.
At the sound of the shot the negro
sank down and the officer thought he
had started to run and stumbled, but
Cabin got onto his feet again and re-
sumed his old place. just then
Richards succeeded in wrestling the AK
from Judge and the latter tired out
made no more demonstrations. The
other party, from whose direction the
shot had been fired, started off through
the brush
Richards finding the negro was shot
assisted HIM to the fence where he was
met by Justice: Baldwin and between
them they got him to the road where
the team had been left. Here the seat
was lifted out and the wounded man
laid on the bottom of the wagon and
driven to Lancaster as fast as possible
Once in the city he was carried into the
woman's ward of the jail and Dr. Bar
Der summoned. He was Joined after
wards by DR.. Kinney and together they
made an examination of the wound.
Explorations showed the charge to have
been buckshot, ten of which penetrated
the negro's back, some of them passed
straight through and some passed
around the ribs. Only one could be ex-
tractcd. The man was made as COM
Portable as possible but the physicians
expressed the opinion that he would
not live until morning.
AS soon as Gadlin was attended to,
Deputy Richards and District Attorney
Orr started for the scene of the shoot
ing to look up the guns in that neigh
borhood. Their search secured two,
both single barrelled, one of which was
loaded with charge of buck-shot, but
had been plainly discharged but a short
time before. This was secured at Pat
Battles. The second was obtained at
John Judges and was unloaded, but had
also been recently fired. The owners,
when charged with shooting the negro,
at first denied it, but on being told that
was of no use, said they had made up
their minds to say nothing about it.
Wednesday morning Gadlin was still
alive but growing worse each hour,
with the probability that he would die
inside of twenty four hours. Both of the
Judges and Battle reported here We'd
nesday according to agreement with
the officers. No arrests were made,
however. everything awaiting the re-
suit of the negro's injuries. All of the
prospective defendants are honest.
Woodworking farmers, who have here
tofore borne good reputation as law
abiding citizens. Gadlin, it might be
remarked in passing, denies the par
antage of the child which adds to the
complications. The affair is a sad one
whichever way viewed
THE Steuar-I)p pasa uh,al uaS Sat