Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-06
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tent to perform an illegal operation on
Alice Mccormick, 81, who died in a
hospital at Oshkosh, was sentenced to
nine months in the county Jail. The
court allowed Werner To-day stay
to make an appeal to the Supreme
court.
Car thieves drove off a large sedan
owned by DR.. E. H. Crosby of Stevens
Point, taking the machine from the
driveway in front of his home. The
burned shell of the car was found on
/ a lonely marsh road. Crosby's son
heard the machine driven away but
thought it was other members of the
| family.
Miss Margaret Stewart, 81, of near
Lime Center, is in Whitewater hos
pital suffering from severe carbolic
acid burns The girl drank the poison
! following a quarrel with her mother,
but small amount going into her
mouth The balance spilled over her
neck and face, burning her badly. She
will probably recover.
While driving an automobile near
Ladysmith, Thomas Leath, surveyor of
| the Northern States Power Co., was
severely cut about the head and his
eyes filled with flying glass when a
partridge, bewildered by the lights of
| the car, crashed into the windshield.
Miss Gerda Pearson, passenger, re-
ceived minor injuries.
| Charged with classifying under oath
in favor of her husband after his ar
rest by prohibition agents, Mrs. Berdie
Hill, Portage, was sentenced to one
year in prison and placed on parole
| by Judge Fairchild of Milwaukee at
ter the woman had entered a guilty
plea The court showed leniency be-
cause of the woman's four children.
Peter Voelker, aged eccentric bach
elor of Sun Prairie, cut his throat in
] the back yard of his brothers home
last Tuesday. Voelker was found by
passerby. He asked for his hat and
indicated the hospital he wanted to
! be taken to for treatment. He died
the same night. Dependency over i'll
| health is given as a reason for the
act.
Investigators for the railroad COM
pany claim they have abundant evil
dence to prove Gabe De Mari, Re-
serve, was killed and thrown on the
tracks at Draper this winter. De Mari
was found on the track by train
| crew badly cut up and it is claimed he
was dead before the train struck the
body He had left Draper late at
night to walk to a camp nearby.
1t takes more than water to down
mephitis mephitica. Thomas Gilbert,
engineer at the state school for the
deaf at Delavan, found mephitis me-
phitica holding forth in the boiler
room at the institution with William
Gram being held at bay. A fire hose
had no effect, only arousing the ire
of the animal. A gun shot, however,
ended the argument with the meph1tiS
mephitica (skunk).
Will c. Hood, Racine realtor, was
sentenced to four years in Fl. Leaven-
worth, following his conviction for
manipulating the recC IDS of the de-
funct American National bank of Ra
cine, to cover his relations with the
Union Stores Co. Hood was president
of the bank when the forgeries occur
red. He was convicted on Is counts
and fined $4,000 Aides in Hoods for
geries were given lighter terms.
Thos. Croas, 40, is believed to have
shot and killed Mrs. Edith Wilkins, 46,
wealthy GAINESVILLE widow, and then
killed himself Tie bodies were found
Sunday when neighbors called the po-
| lice. The coroner bellows CrOas killed
the woman and then took his own life
| his advances toward marriage had
been rejected Mrs. Wilkins had re-
ceived threatening notes from the
man. At one time he proposed a sui
eide pact.
Edison Jardee, "a, Madison, was
found dead under his automobile near
Port Washington, by John Kaiser ST.,
postmaster of that city. Mr.. Kaiser
went by the wreck of Jardee's machine
at 2 a. M, and noticed that Jardee was
pinned beneath it. He summoned help
and the young man was taken out
dead. Jardee was an agent OF the
! Crowell Publishing Co. of Kenosha.
He was driving from Sheboygan to
Rockford when his car turned turtle.
| Two Madison girls and one Racine
escaped from the Union Grove colony
and training school near Madison, last
Sunday. Madison police and the sher
ifs forces have been asked to watch
| for the girls. Hazel Small, %, one of
the fugitives, was sent to the lnst1-
tuition a year ago after admitting re-
lations with John Johns, aged Cuba
/ City land owner and cattle dealer.
! The other fugitives are Rebecca Cox,
10, Madison, and Anna Klotz, 20, of
Racine.
! Theodore Weatherby, Minneapolis,
/ shot twice by a Milwaukee policeman
from whom he was trying to escape,
escaped from the Milwaukee emer-
gency hospital where he was being
treated for his wounds. Weatherby
cut the straps binding him to a cot
and lowered himself from a second
story window by means of a rope. He
was in night clothes. He was shot by
deceive after he had been taken
into custody on charge of passing
worthless checks.
The power Of wind on rampage
was experienced by Vern Tettibone of
| Eau Claire, driving near Augusta. In
Thompson valley Tettibone came into
high wind which was blowing down
! buildings He was driving the auto
mobile down long steep hill when
the wind abruptly stopped the car, al
though the motor was running, and