Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

spend the rest OF ner lie IN the SIdle
penitentiary at Waupun for the share
she had in the murder of her husband,
Andrew, last May. Sentence of life I'M
prisonment was imposed shortly after
p. m. Sunday after jury had re-
turned a verdict finding the woman
guilty of being an accessory before
the fact in the murder of Sigler. Mrs.
Sigler heard the verdict read and SEN
tence pronounced without the flicker
of an eyelash. Nor did she betray the
slightest emotion when Judge W. X.
Foley, Superior, denied her counsels
motion for a new trial. After sentence
was pronounced Mrs. Sigler made a
short statement to newspaper men re-
iterating her version of Sigler'S death
as she told it on the witness stand
last hursday-namely, that she killed
her husband in self-defense. Andrew
Gudleski, who is now serving life
sentence at Waupun for the murder OF
Sigler, declared when he pleaded
guilty to the crime last summer that
Mrs. Sigler had hired him to kill her
husband. Mrs. Sigler testified thai
Gudleski's only part in the affair had
been to help her dispose of the body.
the only person ever to have received
such heavy sentence on Sunday and
the second woman in the history OF
the state to be sentenced to life I'M
prisonment. The other woman was
Mrs. Lottie GARDENER, Berlin, Wis,
who was given the maximum sentence
after being convicted of poisoning her
husband. She was conditionally par
doned by Gov Blaine three months
ago and only recently died at the home
of her sister at Ripon.
An automobile chase, followed by a
running gun fight with the police, re-
suited in the arrest of Francis Thorn
as, %, Green Bay, and Ed Powers, a
southerner, on charges of burglary at
Green Bay Sunday night. The pair, to-
gether with another man who escaped,
held up an oil station in the heart OF
the city before the chase began, police
say. The trio pulled up to the station
in an automobile, which was believed
to be a machine reported stolen earli-
er in the day, and "stuck up" the at
tendant, who turned over the receipts
of the morning. The bandits then es-
capped. The attendant hailed police
man and the two in another machine
went in pursuit. The chase ended when
the car of the holdup men hit a tree.
They jumped out and started running
up the street with their pistols drawn.
The policeman followed and Powers,
the first to be arrested, backed up
against wall and threatened to
shoot Ignoring the threat the Off
Ger fired volley which frightened
him into submission. Thomas was ar
rested at his home later. The machine
used by the bandits was wrecked in
| hitting the tree. 1t was later identi-
fled as the one reported stolen. Au-
thorities believe the three men are
| responsible for a string of automobile
thefts that were reported at Green Bay
the last month.
The way of the transgressor is in
deed hard in Milwaukee; that is when
he gets caught. Frank Raymond, %,
of Monroe, Mich, got caught and Mon
day Judge Shaughnessy sent him on
his way to Waupun for 80 years. Mon
day was his birthday, too. Raymond
was convicted on his plea of guilty to
two charges. He shot and wounded
Max Marcus, drug store proprietor,
in his attempt to hold up the place on
Christmas night He was charged with
assault with intent to kill and murder
and assault and robbery while armed
He was sentenced to 80 years on each
count, both sentences to run concur
rently Raymond was speeches. when
sentence was imposed He had said
nothing as detectives detailed their
stories to the court and when SEN
J
words You've brought this punish
ment on yourself, young man." said
the judge. Cunning and robbery be-
ing your trade, you must have read in
the papers of the severe penalties
awaiting the culprit caught in Mil
Waukee. You should have thought of
that before you fired" Raymond's SEN
tence ends a brief but active career of
crime. Three times he enlisted in the
army and as often deserted, re-enlist-
ing each time under a different name.
Failure to make certain that a fuse
to a heavy dynamite charge was ex-
tinguished cost Ralph Blunt, 10, his
life at Baraboo Monday afternoon.
Blunt, an employee of a road crew re-
locating state trunk highway near
Spencers Corners, died at the hospital
two hours after he was struck full in
the face and body by heavy rocks
hurtled from the road by the blast of
dynamite. The youths home was at
Poplar Grove, Ill According to the
foreman of the crew, Blunt went to
the scene Of the blasting operations to
determine why charge had not ex-
ploded. When within a few feet of the
we'll where the charge was placed, the
dynamite went off.
Ku Klux Klaners or their imperson-
ators were busy again in Sheboygan
Saturday night They pounded the
doors of the George CRUDE home and
when he came out to see what the
rumpus was all about, large cross
was started burning, at exactly the
same spot where, week ago, one was
burned. The Ku KluXers or whoever
they are, staged an auto parade and
danced about as the cross was burn
ing. A week ago Saturday night a
cross was observed burning on the
river bank opposite the White Wagon
Works.
Such signatures as "Veritas,"
Friend Of Liberty and "True Amer
lean" will be thing of the past as
far as newspaper communications are
concerned if bill introduced in the
senate last week becomes a law. The
measure offered by Senator Merritt F.
White, Winneconne, provides a fine Of
$40 to 800 for owners. managers, pub
fishers or editors Of any newspaper or