Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-12-27
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

/ Masked bandits entered a Madison
restaurant and forced Lewis Hecker,
! cook, to hand over SIS. The till was
| tapped for $50.
! Emmett Buffet, alias James Elliott
and Fred Bartlett, held in Jail at Ev-
ansville, on charge of forgery, broke
! the lock on the Jail door with a coal
| shovel and made a clean getaway.
Found guilty for the third time by a
! jury in Wausau on charges of violat-
/ ing prohibition laws, Elmira Fabel,
| was sentenced to the state industrial
j school for women at Taycheedah.
! Harry Wicks, Madison travelling
man, was held up in his car near La
/ Crosse Thursday night. Masked men
! stopped Wicks as he slowed down to
make a dangerous curve, and relieved
! him of $40
! Scott Percifield, father of eight, was
| sentenced to serve six years in Wau-
pun, by Judge Wickham, at Eau
/ Claire. Percifeld, residing at Lady
smith, was found guilty on six differ
ent counts.
| Violators OF liquor laws in Juneau
were assessed $3.50 in fines by Judge
Davidson, together with several hun
dred more in costs. Five men ap-
peared, all pleaded guilty, and only
fines were imposed.
Twenty eight mothers are receiving
aid from Waukesha county, according
! to figures presented by John Sleep,
| treasurer The amount to be received
from the county by the dependent
mothers this year will be $3.50, he
| said.
A lemon tree in the Office of DR.. T.
Mills, Wisconsin Rapids, IS setting
precedent in production. The tree al
though only four feet high, in now car
( rying four distinct crops, ranging all
the way from blossoms to mature
fruit.
Kenneth Goodrich. Is. Madison high
school student was arrested on a
charge of having taken car at Bel
oft without the owners consent and
! driving it to Chicago and then back to
GAINESVILLE where he abandoned it for
lack of funds The case was held over
| pending an investigation.
! Herbert Dowie, Max Ladewig and
Arthur Guenther, Kenosha railroad
men, were arrested on charge of
stealing auto tires and accessories in
excess of $4,000 worth. Ladewig put
in plea of guilty and sentence was
| deferred. Dowie and Guenther pleaded
not guilty. They will have trial
Dec 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Burke, Kau-
kauna couple confessed that they
buried the body of their 8-day-old in
FAINT daughter in their back yard. The
truth came out when the attending
physician missed the infant and in
quired after its health. The body will
be examined on the theory that the
babe died of starvation.
The bodies of Gen Frank Marshall,
former Darlington man, and Lieuten-
ant Charles Weber, both of the u. S.
army, were found in a lonely canyon
40 miles west of Tucson, Ari., by an
Indian shepherd. Their burned air
plane was strewn on the ground. The
men were on, flight from San Diego,
Calf, to Ell Paso, Texas.
George Lindsey, 90, head of the Ra-
cine branch OF 1.-The Christian Army"
was sentenced Wednesday to eight
year in Waupun on charges OF seduc-
ton made by a Miss of II years. The
girl claimed Lindsey employed her on
Nov. S, violating her but failing to
keep his promise to marry her. Lind
sey pleaded guilty and admitted that
he had court record in Boston.
Jaems Segelke, elderly Beloit bach
elor, is in the Rock county Jail on
charge Of assault with intent to COM
NIT murder Segelke was arrested
following the finding of Dan Jordan
in an unconscious condition, believed
to be victim of hammer assault. Jor-
dan said the assault was made by Sc
gelke when he called to effect settle
ment for the sale of suit of clothes.
Segelke was examined for insanity
and found to be sane. The criminal
charge followed.
| Phoebe Simmons, alleged sweetheart
of Edward Grove, who provided the
latter with saws to help him escape
from the Madison police station sew
eral months ago, is now an inmate of
the Industrial Home for Women at
Taycheedah She was recently di-
vorced by her husband in a Madison
court. The husband was awarded
the custody of the two children. The
woman was placed on probation for
her completely in Groves escape and
when she violated this probation, was
taken to Taycheedah.
Despondent because she was unable
to find her 7-year-old son, Mrs. Marian
Volkman of Milwaukee, took poison
Saturday and died Sunday night. Be-
fore she died, according to the police,
she accused her husband, from whom
she was separated, Of taking the child.
Accidentally skidding into a ditch,
necessitating his staying at a farm
house all night, caused relatives of
Fred Schneider, Cooperstown, to ask
the authorities at Manitowoc to aid
them in their search for the boy.
Schneider returned just as the author
tiles arrived.
seMOON' AS MORTGAGE LITTER
Moonshine as mortgage litter ap
peared in court at Madison last week
! ..-Lo,, IIor1,nan Arnold farrnor n1anoa r