Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
WISCONSIN MOB
MAY LYNCH MAN
cADoTT POSSE HUNTS ALLEGED
ASSAILANT OF 15-YEAR-OLD
GIRL.
LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDERER
SLAYER OF JENNIE REIHLE SENT
TO WAUPUN-CRIME WAVE
UNCHECKED.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, Aug. Z. - In
the vicinity of Cadott, small town
on the Wisconsin Central line, there is
in progress manhunt that may Ter
inmate in a lynching as the sequel Oh
a brutal assault upon fifteen-year-old
girl.
Maud Tautaut, the victim of the as
sault, accuses John Lyons, who Mon
day night was arrested by the town
marshal. Fearing mob violence and
believing that the town and lookup
would prove inadequate to resist pos
sible attack, the peace officer took his
prisoner to the hotel for the night. Be-
fore morning Lyons had escaped.
Posse on the Hunt.
Yesterday a posse was formed by
residents of Cadott and farmers living
in the vicinity. Lyons is believed to
be in hiding not far from the town,
and as the search for him continues
the anger of the men seems to be r1s-
ing. and threats of violence grow in
number.
The Tautaut girl says that she was
attacked when in the road near her
sisters home Frightened by noise,
her assai1ant left her, and she man
aged to reach the home of her sister,
to whom she told her story
Lyons was in Cadott last night and
when news of the attack on the girl
became known he was arrested.
Given Life Sentence.
Wausau, Wis, Aug. 7. - Rudolph
Fullhweiler, self-confessed murderer
of Jennie Reihle, yesterday was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
state prison at Waupun. Fullhweiler
appeared before Judge Marchetti at
Wausau Monday and waived preliml-
nary examination, admitting his guilt
and refusing to have witnesses testi-
fly.
Public feeling against the man has
been high, and threats of lynch1ng
have been made frequently.
The crime was one of the most bru-
tai ever committed in Marathon cOun-
ty.
Crime Wave Unchecked.
New York, Aug. More of what
have come to be seriously known at
police headquarters as near" crimes
against girls were followed by nearer
lynchings yesterday. Out Of the score
of complaints that reached the police
q half dozen demanded serious atten-
ton Whether the number is extraOr
binary is disputed, but certain it is
that never before has mob vengeance
so frequently attended attacks upon
children.
Led by a woman who alternately in
Italian and broken English cried,
"Avenge my daughter!" a reckless
crowd of perhaps 1000 persons last
night stormed the Fourteenth street
car barns of the Metropolitan Street
Railway company, where a policeman
had sought refuge with a seriously
pummeled prisoner,
Kissed Little Girl.
Paul SOrgerator, a Greek peddler
had made the mistake, it is alleged, of
kissing Grace Jesco, an Italian of elev-
en- years. Police reserves stood off the
mob while the Greek was hustled into
patrol wagon. Through crowd that
cried Kill him!" Lynch him!" the
police fought their way to the nearest
station house. Cheated of their man,
the crowd vented its fury on Castor
Keriskel an unoffending workman,
homeward bound. AS he was passing
the rioters a boy pointed him out, at
the same time yelling: "That's the
mans friend. He was there, too"
Keriskel was pounded until he was
unconscious. The police reserves final
ly got the injured man and removed
him to a hospital