Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-01

tary icehouse stands within a quarter
of Il mile of the cluster of shabby Struc-
lures composed of the house above mem
toned and several other outbuildings
such as a wOodshed, smOkehOuse. barns,
etc. When night falls upon this locality
the stiffness of the grave covers the sur
rOundings like a pail and nothing but
the low gurgling of the swiftly flowing
waters of the MenOminee is heard. If
the gang had had their measure taken
and the place made to their order it
could not have fitted them nor served
their purpose better. No innocent way
farer ever passed this way in the night
unless he felt like taking his life in his
hands, as the locality is permeated-not-
withstanding its sylvan surroundings
with the OdOr of crime.
The Den is Searched.
Grave suspicious had long hung over
old John Golfer and his brood, but moth
ing was ever suspected to the extent
discovered when Sheriff Hitchon, accom-
panied by Marshal SellervOld and three
assistants, swooped down on this local
..helI's half-acre' on Thursday nigh:,
June IS. The officers went out in d
bus and first tackled the house. Every
nook and Granny of the ramshackle place
was peered into, but not the hide nor
hair of a living creature could be seen.
The officers then went to the barn and
there discovered six of the ''artful dodg
ers" in hiding The officers proceeded 30
gather them in and soon had them safe
under the strong locks of the Marinette
county Jail. They gave these names:
John Golfer, Hugh Golfer, his son; Hugh
McFaggett, Billy Leard, Billy Dickie,
Charles Rondeau, Charles Matcheson,
Alex. Petrie, and Mrs. Golfer and daugh-
ter Eliza. Most of the young men have
had bad records, though some of them
fon IN he 10Th
of the capture evident preparations had
been made for a midnight feast and or
gle, the principal features of which We're
to be a key of beer stolen from Gus.
Reinke and a pot full of savory, yellow
legged chickens tilched from city coops.
For some reason or other the house was
hot deemed the proper place, so the feast
was to be had in the safer precincts of
the barn. The kettle of chickens, par
TALLY cooked, now stands in the barn
yard and is viewed by sightseers-of
which there are hundreds daily-in con-
nection with the other unsavory bric-a-
brac and curiosities of the place.
A RamshackIe House.
The house itself is story-and-a-half
structure with weather-beaten and sim
lister exterior 4 sort of cellar is under
meath, but it is muddy and noisome, and
if 10 per cent. of the stories in circuia
ton are true this portion of the house
may rival Holmes castle" Certain it
is, however, that human bones have been
found in the den, and a thorough search
is to be made.
Robberies and all kinds of thieving
have been quite frequent in Marinette
and Menominee for the past year or two,
and many a merchant and householder
has found where some, at least, of his
last goods were when the band was cor
rallied" and the storehouse of their plum
der found. The place where the .eves
principally stowd their stealings is Il sort
of woodshed about 12X16 feet in dimen-
sions. This place is crammed and
damned full of the most heterogeneous
mixture of articles ever found in juxta-
position. Tools of all kinds, steel traps,
all kinds of clothing, bolts of dry goods
and cloths, many guns, ten or fifteen
hatchets and axes. forty-two watches
and one diamond pin valued at 5000 were
found among the plumber. Lodge re-
gala, cowbells-in fact, every species
of property that could be made the sub