The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Happenings in Wisconsin Which
Are of interest TO Our
Own People.
FARM HANDS lBLooDY DoINGs
Love-Mad Man Shoots Young Girl and
Her Mother.
Barbados Himself i'm the House and
Fires on Citizens Who Sur.
round It-Sheriff Shot
in the Neck.

Waukesha. Wis, Sept 21.-After an
all-night battle with mob that forme G
when he shot Olga Grabow, fourteen
years old, and her mother because his
mad love for the girl was opposed,
George Smith, sixty years old, was
captured at 5 a. m. by twenty deputies
of Sheriff Dwinnell, who was wounded
by bullet fired by the old man.
/ Five hundred persons were in tie
attacking force. The prisoner was
hurried from Calhound, where he had
used the Grabow farm house as fort,
while mob threatened to take him
away from the officers.
Smith fired upon citizens and deputy
sheriffs many times during the night,
using a revolver, while farmers AMI
officers riddled the house with shots
from muskets and rifles. He ceased
firing shortly after dawn and members
of the attacking party found lin hid
ing in a corner of the attic.
Don't Know Why 1 Did 1t.
81 don't know why / did it; loved
the little girl so, but they wouldn't le.
me have her. was his only answer to
questions.
The victims are: Olga Grabow, four
teen years old, in serious condition at
Emergency hospital here. one eye de-
stroyed by bullet, may recover; Mrs.
julius Grabow, fiftyltwo years old, dy-
ing in same hospital; Sheriff George Il.
Dwinnell, shot through neck, jaWbone
broken.
Smith was the man Of all work
about the Grabow farm. Ernest Ora
bow, the owner, drove to WaukesLa
and while he was gone the old man he.
gan his attack on the wife and child.
Olga Grabow was his first victim.
She was walking across the space be-
tween the barn and the kitchen doo'
when Smith jumped out of the milk
house with a revolver in his hand. IIe
fred once at the girl and she ran
screaming toward the door. Just as
she reached it bullet pierced he.-
arm The crazed man dashed into tie
uOuS0 dlIcI ucI, III az IC ldI.
Shoots Mother, Flees to House.
He ran through the building and out
of tie front door, where he saw Mrs.
Grabow running toward the house, at
tracted by the screams of her daugh-
ter. Before the woman reached the
porch she was hit by one of his bull
let's and fell fainting on the lawn.
Without stopping further to modest bis
victims, Smith turned, re-entered tic
house, and, running up stairs, barri-
caded himself in his room at the head
of the stairs
The girl, though bleeding from her
wounds, managed to get around tie
house to the side of her mother. The
sounds of the shots attracted neighbOrs
from nearby farms, who bundled the
two wounded women into a wagon
and drove madly to the nearest hospi-
tall Sheriff Dwinnell was notified o.
the shooting by telephone and in less
than half an hour he arrived at tfie
farm house with Deputy Sheriff
Michael Clancy.
Sherln Is wounded.
The sheriff had just put his foot on
the lower step of the stairway WHEEL
a shot was fired Holding both his
hands tc his neck AMI with blood
squirting through his fingers, the sher-
if staggered through the doorway into
the yard. Deputy Clancy crouched ia
the hall, bat no further shots were
fred. Che upper part Of the stairway
was dark and he did not have the
temeritg to attempt to rush on the in
furiated man under such odds.
News Of the shooting spread through
this city and half the adult male popr-
lation went to assist in the capture Of
the desperate. Farmers for miles
around, armed with revolvers, old
muskets and whatever weapon came
availaf,Ic ioinpd the TlOSse from Etls