Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-11-03
INFHNTI6IDE ORSE.
Three BOSCObe1 Women
Charged With Child
Murder.


county Jail at Lancaster, q mother
and her two daughters who are
charged with numbering child, six
days old, which was born to one of
the daughters on Oct. 10, 1898.
The prisoners are Mrs. VIM. Wag-
ner and her two unmarried daughters
Mary and Louise. Louise. the young
er of the sisters, is the mother of the
child that is supposed to have been
murdered.
The circumstances of the affair are
somewhat beclouded at this writing.
As far as known appearances are
against the prisoners. When Miss
Louise Wagner discovered her condi-
ton she was given money by her
brother to 80 to Milwaukee; but grow
ing homesick she returned home be-
fore the appointed time and was Sc
GREETED by her mother and sister Mary
in their house in Boscobel and away
from her father and brother for three
weeks, at the end OF which time they
found place for her at the farm home
of MIR Beleher across the river in
Crawford county, two miles north OF
Boscobel, where the baby in contro-
versy was born on October 10. A few
DAYS after the baby was born Louise
sent note to Boscobel begging her
mother and sister to come and bring
her home, and a few days after the re-
ception of the note Mary in company
with Deputy Sheriff Amos DeVoe went
in buggy to Belcher's and got the
baby and brought it to Boscobel. OF
ficer DeVoe let Mary and the baby
out of the buggy at Wagner's house.
She went into the wood she'd and
that is the last seen of the baby. The
baby was well wrapped up in shawl
as it was a very stormy day-on
the way over, but was alive then as
the officer says it awo1e and "squal-
led'' when he let Mary out and opened
the barnyard gate for her to pass
through.
When it became noised about that
the baby had mysteriously disappear
ed, through the Efforts of District At
torney Howe the following handful
was printed and posted in conspicu-
Gus places
$50. 90 REWARD reward of fifty dollars
will be paid for the recovery or production
of the body of the infant female child born
cobel Wis. ANY information that will lead
to the recovery of said child or its body will
be sufficient to entitle the informant to the
above reward. All such information should
be communicated. to District Attorney w.
e Howe, Boscobel Wis. -
Chairman OF County Board of Grant Co.
HORACE HYMER,
Sheriff OF Grant Co.
Up to this time the above Offering
has failed to bring tidings of the
baby Mrs. VIM. Wagner and her
two daughters were placed under ar
rest and as soon as Louise was IN con-
dition to travel they were brought to
the Lancaster Jail. They will have a
hearing before Justice McGonigal in
this city on Wednesday, Nov. 9th, at
which time Mr. Howe will appear for
the state and Attorney w. G. Palmer
will defend the women
The prisoners are the wife and
daughters of VIM. Wagner, who is a
prosperous German and proprietor of
the city draw line in Boscobel. They
own fine residence in the southwest
ern part of the city and are in good
circumstances financially. Besides
the mother and father. two sons and
two daughters constitute the family.
One of the sons is a tlourishing dentist
and all of the children are we'll edu-
Gated. Their touse is place of more
than ordinary comfort with evidences
of culture and refinement at every
turn.
The prisoners explained to a Herald
reporter this morning that they were
brought here Monday noon from Bos-
cobel by Deputy " i'll Seaman Their
ages are: Louise 2S, Mary so, Mar
Caret 80 years. Mary stated that she
went across the river with Mr.. DeVoe
and got the baby because she had
been asked to do so by gentleman
with black mustache who said he
was friend of Louise and that he
wanted the baby; that the man would
not tell her his name nor address as
he wanted to adopt the baby and did
not want any of its relatives to know
in the future where it lived. She
states that when she arrived home the
man with black mustache was wait
ing for her in the yard and she gave
him the baby then and there without
taking it into the house at all; that
this is all she knows of the baby and
she has no knowledge whatever Of the
man with a black mustache nor where
he took the baby all he said was that
he would give it a good home.
Mary Wagner and Margaret, her
mother. are very nervous, cry much
and talk continually Of the calamity
that has fallen upon them; while
Louise IS calm aud impresses one
with the belief that either she does
not believe the child is dead or that
she can prove that she had no hand in
the Killing of it. She did not come
home the night Mary brought the