The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-12-07
John Weismann, Prominent Far.
mer Of Brighton, Meets an
Unusual Death tuesday
ACCIDENTAL DEATH BELIEVED
Body of the Old Man is Found by a
Neighborine Farmer and coro-s
ner's Jury Rringssa Verdict 90
of Accidental Death

/ CHASTITY discovery on the farm OF
John Weismann, in the town OF
Brighton, few miles south of Union
Grove, a few minutes after 8 O'Clock
Tuesday morning. Mr.. Allen hap
pened to visit the farm and walking
up to an old well, was horrified to see
two legs of a man projecting up and
in plain view. With all possible
haste he gave an alarm and with the
assistance of others, pulled the man
out, and it was found to be the body of
John Weismann, one of the oldest and
best known farmers of Kenosha
| county.
! Investigation revealed that Mr..
| Weismann left his farm house with
| two empty pals and walked to the
well to draw water for his stock. The
well is hardly FIVE feet deep and there
is but one and one-half feet of water
in it. The supposition lis that in at
tempting to draw pail full of water
he lost his balance and fell headlong
! into the we'll, for in the water. was
!, one Of the pals,
i Examination revealed that the fall
did not break the mans neck, but
| that not being able to help himself
after the fall, he was drowned. AT
first it was surt1ised that he might
lhave committed Suicide, but as he
was cheerful and in the best of spir-
/ its, friends and relatives scout at the
/ idea Of self destruction. 80
Mr.. Weismann was born in Prussia
and was between so and 20 years of
age. With his parents he came to
America in the year 1847, settling in
Kenosha county. All his life SheWas
a farmer and assisted his parents in
his younger days, to cultivate and es~
tablish a fine farm. @
Always peaceful and quiet farmer
he made hosts of friends. After the
death of his parents he ren1ainca fon
the old homestead and few men IN
western Kenosha county were better
known. He was bachelor. Fl go
He was brother of Henry Wefs-
mann, the eccentric attorney, who Of
Hate has been having srnuch trouble ia
the courts.
An inquest was Immediately held to
INQUIRE into the manner and way
John Weismann came tc his death.
! Mr.. .Weismann was al single man
and lived with his agel mother on the
farm. Recently he and his brother,
Henry, the attorney, had afalling
out, and it resulted in the mother
bringing suit against her son John,
through the influence of Henry, to
eject him from the farm for the nom
payment of rent. The case. is pend
| ing in the circuit court and came up
before Judge Be1den Tuesday morning
| The complaint in the case is one of
the most remarkable ever filed in the
| courts of Kenosha county. Ital1eged
that John Weismann, the defendant,
was immoral; that he defed the state s
prison; that he defied his God and
everything else. Tuesday morning the
case came up on a motion to show
| cause why certain allegations in the
complaint should not be stricken out.
| Judge Be1den entered an order that
the motion be granted and that the
complaint be modified in the manner
asked for.
The death of the defendant will in
all probability result in the suit being
dropped. Even the attorneys and
Judge Belden did not know of the SEN
ga tinna1 death of the defendant At.
torneys state that the troubles and
history of the Weismann family would
! fill a good sized book.