Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07
WOMAN WITH GUN
STOPS LYNCHING
WIFE OF BOARDING HOUSE KEEP
Err AT TWIN LAKES, WIS,
FACES MOB.
CUTS DOWN STRANGLlNG COOn
Fierce Fight Follows When Ice Com
pany Employees Rescue Half-Dead
Milwaukeean from Mob.
VICTIMS RIBS and HEAD BROKEN.

kENOSHA. Wis. Jan. 6.-f Special
Standing off an Infatuated mob of $50
men with shotgun, Mrs Sarah AndelI.
wife of John Andell. a boarding house
keeper at Twin Lakes, cut the rope with
which Sam Roberts, cook at an ice cut
ting camp, had been swung to 4 raftcr
IN an ice house. Just in time TO save
he man from death from strangulation.
The attempt to lynch Roberts followed
l quarrel between union and nonunion
men IN winch 1t was charged that the
mob's intended victim was ''scab."
AS soon us she had freed Roberts
neck from the Moose about il Mrs. Andell
screamed for aid About thirty friends
of the mob's victim rushed to his rescue
and after desperate battle rescued him,
more dead than alive Roberts was hur-
ried to the Andell home and was later
sent to Milwaukee. Three ribs were
broken and his body was a mass of
bruises as the result of the rough treat
ment he had received at the hands of his
enemies.
Labor Dispute Arouses
The attempted lynching was the cul-
mnation of n fierce labor struggle A
controversy had arisen between the
union and nonunion men in the ice cut
ting camps of the knickerbocker Ice COM
pany of Chicago, in one of which Rob
ertS was cook, with the result that the
company discharged Il large number of
men.
The discharged men gathered in u sa-
loon and vowed vengeance on the non
union workers still employed At the
height of their resentment an angry
ice cutter noticed Roberts in the place.
With a cry of 'Scab' he rushed at the
cook. His fellows, reused by the cry,
turned, as one man, upon Roberts, bore
him to the floor and administered a ter
ribe beating as he lay PROSTATE
When the fury was at its worst some
one shouted Hang him" In an in
slant rope had been produced and a
running moose made on one end, which
was slipped about the neck of the half
insensible cook. The mob then rushed
the prisoner to a nearby icehouse, where
the free end of the rope was passed over
a rafter, while jeers and insults were
hurled at the intended victim
Pleads for Mercy.
All but paralyzed with fear, Roberts
fell on his knees stretched out his hands
appealingly and begged for mercy There
was no mercy. The mob, mad for blood,
laughed at his pleadings and told him to
hustle along with his prayers
Then it was that Mrs. Andell took a
hand. With n shotgun iii her hands and
fire in her eye she brushed through the
mob to the side of the intended victim.
IN kill the first man that pulls that
rope" she said, and there was deter
minatiOn in her voice.
The lynchers, startled by the uneX-
pected sight of woman and awed by
the shotgun she carried, stood still and,
as she pointed the gun first to one side
and then to another, they backed away
to a safe distance.
Rescue Party Forms.
Still holding the would-be slayers at
bay, Mrs. Andell called loudly for help
and Roberts friends and officers of the
ice company responded. a mad fight in
which pike poles and clubs were used
followed and more than a score were in
jured before Roberts was finally rescued.
The riot and attempted lynching was
reported to District Attorney Baker
here. He has ordered the arrest of the
mob leaders, but reports from Twin
Lakes say all are believed to have left
for Chicago. 1t is said the company of
ficials know the names of most Of the