Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-03
A plea of not guilty to the charge OF


| having attempted to poison her sec
ond child, was entered at Elkhorn
| last week on behalf of Mrs. Myrtle
! Schaude, Sc. 1t is alleged that Mrs.
| Schaude gave her four children candy
which contained strychnine. The re-
port is that this preceded a car ride
| the plan being to overcome the child
rem with poison and have them meet
| death when they lost control of the
| car. Ralph the Oldest son, threw
| the poisoned candy away and the
mother snatched it from the others,
gong so far as to run her fingers
down the baby's throat and clean out
| bits of eaten candy. None of the
| children suffered from the poison.
| Mrs. Schaude confessed Sunday a
week ago to having poisoned her hus-
band, Edward, Is months ago. He died
as a result. Since then the woman has
been running a large boarding house
with normal pupils as boarders. A
sex complex is limited at but the gen
| eral presumption is that the woman is
! insane.
| Alleging that her husband caused
her extreme humiliation when he
abused her on the dance floor, Mrs.
| Wanda Hagberg is suing Ned Hag
| berg of Kenosha, for a divorce, ac-
| cording to papers just filed in the cir
| cult court. Mrs. Hagberg, before her
marriage, was an iron-jaW artist in
vaudeville. She says that much Of the
property held by her husband belongs
| in reality, to her. Several weeks ago
| when respondent over the turn her
| domestic affairs had taken, she took
| poison, but quick work on the part Of
physicians saved her life.
James Vande Moore of Sheboygan
was put on probation for year for is
| suing checks without funds in the
bank after he had admitted a novel
scheme. Fred wrote a number of
| checks to friends who would hold
| them until he had purchased whiskey
He was to sell the liquor and double
his money The scheme met with poor
success when he gave man $3.50 fer
goods" and the man disappeared
Vande admitted having written seven
checks in all.
Vivian Flint and Eleanor Therke1-
son, Oregon high school girls, ditch
ed" school one afternoon last week
and caught a ride to Madison. Their
| disappearance was noted and a school
| companion said the girls had been
kidnapped" by strange men in car.
Before a search was organized the
! girls reported to friends at Madison.
They had spent the night in Villas
park ZOO and were thoroughly disil-
| lusioned as to life "out in the world"
A secret investigation of drug
| stores in Dane county, where minors
are said to be obtaining liquor on doc
tors prescriptions, is being conducted
| by Judge Ole A. Stolen, superior court.
1t is known that one Madison druggist
and Verona doctor have been cited
! to appear before the judge. The in
vestigatiOn started when a Madison
woman complained that her son OBJ
tanned prescription and got liquor
from drug store in Madison.
w. H. Strowd and B. W. Griem of
the state department of agriculture
have perfected a new method of pro-
tecting farmers against adulterated
oil-meal. The United States depart
ment of agriculture is said to have
accepted the test as a basis for start
ing suits against companies which
permit their products to fall below
| standard.
Otto Lishka, proprietor of the Fed
eral Tire shop, Menominee, shot him
self through the heart Friday morn
| ing at his shop. He was the fiance of
Belle Lemieux, who was killed Satu1-
day night in an auto accident just OPP
posite his shop. In a note left he said
| he wished to be buried at her side.
| A deathbed statement, duplicating
a Mt. Horeb man as the source of MS
liquor supply, made by John Kraak,
| 70 will q
warrant for the arrest of the man this
week. Kraak died after his automo
bile crashed into a bride, one of the
pipe railing passing through his body.
On the Andrew Balog farm near
/ Hillsdale, high grade Holstein COW
gave birth to three calves. Saturday
night the COW gave birth to small
| bull calf Sunday morning a heifer
calf appeared and little later ON
another bull calf appeared. The two
| last are of normal size and weight.
Louis j. Volk and Sam Gould, found
guilty at Stevens Point of having
burned their stock of clothing in
store at Fremont several years ago,
were each given three years in the
state penitentiary at Waupun. The
men have a month to perfect an ap
peal Gould is to be paroled.
John May, Medford, confessed hold
up man, was sentenced to Fl years in
Waupun by Judge c. A. Fowler 1T
Fond du Lac, Friday. May held Up
Gustav Houghton, Standard o.;
station man, on Sept. 16. He used a
gun stolen from policeman who
roomed where he did.
Jewel thieves Friday morning
smashed the large street display Win
dow of the c. A. Swanson jewelry
store at Superior, swept the window
clean of all valuables, including q
large diamond ring, a number of
watches and trays of jewelry, and
made their escape
Miss Orpha Moore of Marinette, So
cially prominent, committed suicide by
hanging Monday night. Miss Moore
left home about Z, her mother thinking
she had gone to church. The mother
went to the woodshed the next morn
ing and found her daughter dead
Fred Treplow, Marinette, ran out Of
gasoline while enroute home and a
| friendly stranger allowed him to ST
| phon gasoline from his car. While