Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-09-26
SIEBOLDT L LYNCHED
By a Fearless, MaskleSS Posse
in Open Day,
At Darlington Last Monday.


the announcement that Anton Sic
boldt had wilfully murdered Jas.
Meighan, and that the murderer
was promptly arrested and placed
in the Darlington ] all. The friends
of the murdered man were so
wrought up over the matter that
they went to the Jail the next night
for the purpose of lynching Sic
boldt, but the sheriff being iu-
formed of such intentions before
hand, secretly took the prisoner to
the county farm ere the posse of
woud-be lynchers visited the jail,
aud when they came they were per
mitted to inspect the cells and
satisfy themselves that he was not
there. The next morning the
sheriff took the prisoner to the
Monroe Jail for safe keeping until
Monday the day set for a hearing,
when he was taken back to Oar
lington for that purpose. No
demonstration was made on the
arrival of the train, which was a
little before noon, and the belief
was general that the craze for
| lyu ching had subsided, There was
large crowd at the depot to get a
peep at the murderer, and when he
was being taken to the jail there
was not the least interference. But
about 1915 O'clock, when the
sheriff was eating dinner and most
of his deputies we're absent getting
theirs, about a dozen determined
fellows called on the sheriff and de.
manded the prisoner. This ws
refused by word and action, where
upon the lynchers by the use of a
siedge battered down the cell aud
quickly succeeded in placing a rope
around Sleboldt's neck, he lighting
the while, and dragged him with
ont ceremony down the flight of
steps, during which proceeding
some one of the party struck him
on the back Of the head, causing
the blood to flow and partially
stunning him. He was hurried to a
tree in the court house yard, the
rope thrown over limb, aud his
body yauked into the air aud his
spirit soon took its flight into eter-
nifty. Most Of the townspeople
were Immediately at the scene, but
there was no effort to stay the work
of the lynchers.
Amid profound silence a physic-
ian examined the doomed man aud
pronounced life extinct. The body
was then cut down and conveyed to
the court house and an undertaken
sent for. The father and mother Of
Sieboldt arrived in time to see him
on the tree. That evening the body
was placed in a spring wagon and
conveyed to the cemetery, the grave
digger and undertaken being the
only participants in the burial. The
3 parents had returned home, having
declined to receive the body or have
anything to do with it. After the
. lynching the crowd quietly dis
uersed. There was no masking OF
attempt at disguise on the part Of
any one. While all deplore the
murder and lyuching, there is but
one sentiment in the community
and that is ''that a vicious life had q
merited ending"
70 follow out the requirements oI
law the proper officials mpaneled a
jury, who, disagreeing as TO tht
cause Of death, adjourned 70 give
time to exhume the body aud as Ger
tanning if possible whether deatt
was caused by tue blow dealt OF
his head while be was being drag
ged from the court house, or by
hanging. No arrests have as ye
been made.
Later.-It is understood tha
upon examination by doctors it wa'
decided that straugulation caused
death.
We have received pamphle
entitled "Information and Advice
. Relating to Patents" from G. A
I Snow u Co, well.known Paten
I Attorneys Of Washington, d. @. I
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