The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-01-23
Henry Wiesmann, of Brighton, Files a
Most Unique Appeal From De-
cision of County Court.
CLAIMS He is MENTALLY SOUND
Demands That the Circuit Court Over rule
the Decision of the County Court and
Grant Him His Liberty.

Henry Wiesmann, the we'll known
attorney of the town of Brighton, who
was adjudged insane in the County
court of this county some two months
ago, has declined to abide by the deci-
sion of the court and has fled with the
| Clerk of the Circuit court an appeal of
! the case, which is one of the most
UNIQUE documents ever filed in the
local court. While the appeal is filed
| bv we'll known attorney of the city,
there is no doubt but that it was writ
ten by Mr.. Wiesmann himself, and it
is certainly a novelty in the way of
! appeals.
! In the complaint Mr.. Wiesmann
openly charges some lightweight well
| known residents of the county with
conspiring against him for the purpose
of defrauding him.
The complaint of Mr.. Wiesmann in
| his appeal is as follows:
"Whereas, our good God has in his
great goodness and mercy given to me
the undersigned, the said Henry Wies-
mann. the best of health in mind and
body in every respect during the last
wear. Thanks be to Our Good God for
| the same.
"And Whereas, many persons are
honestly, justly and lawfully indebted
to me, the said Henry Wiesmann, be-
fore our good God and man.
"And Whereas I have already de-
manded the amount due to me from
some persons, and some have refused
to pay me and from some 1 have not
yet demanded my pay although they
all know they owe me.
"And Whereas I am now and have
been since the year A. D. 1873 a
practicing attorney, duly licensed and
admitted by the Circuit Court and the
Supreme Court of said State to
practice in all the courts thereof.
"And, whereas, have already COM
menced honest actions at law against
some of those that owe me, and also
for other persons, by summons and Pc
titions, in the several courts Of this
state provided by law, and most of
them are yet pending and not yet fin
Undetermined.
"And, whereas, lightweight signers
made and signed a petition dated
the seventh day of September, A. D.
1901, and filed the twentieth day
of September, A. D. 1901, to r. H.
S1osson, county judge of said county,
for a judicial inquiry as to my mental
condition and for an order committing
me to the hospital or asylum for the
insane.
"And, whereas, the said petition
was and is untrue, false and malicious
and malicious conspiracy by said pc
titioners, signed by persons who either
owe me, or have an interest in beat
! ing me out of my pay, or other persons
out of their pay, or are enemies of me
and personal friends of those that owe
me and are interested in beating me
out of my pay, and by these insane
and malicious proceedings deprive me
of my liberty, my home, my means of
support and my property, and thereby
falsely imprisoned me and prevent me
from collecting from them and others
what is honestly, justly and lawfully
OW1u& " anu IAANANOJ PANN\ANAAS
me to do any honest, just and lawful
acts, and thereby also to prevent me
from performing my lawful business,
profession and calling, and to degrade
and hurt me in all ways and manner,
and to do ali the wrong and injury to
me they possibly can, contrary to sec
ton 1880 of the revised statutes and
other provisions of law"
After this rather remarkabl intro
duction Mr.. Wiesmann cited the fact
that he was duly declared insane, and
gives notice to the county judge and
the attorney who represented the pc
titioners for the examination that he
will appeal the case to the circuit
court.
There is some doubt as to the right
of Mr.. Wiesmann to make such an APP
peal, and it is certainly true that such
an appeal has not been made in the
history of Wisconsin jurisprudence.
The case will be placed on the March
| calendar of the Circuit court.
MARRIED IN KENOsHA.