Crime News Gleanings
for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Crime News Gleanings
for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
J. D. Matheny, bigamist, and W. N. Smith, adulterer, have been sentenced by Judge Gilson, of Fond du Lac, to three years each in the state prison.
[Wisconsin State Journal April 13, 1888 - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
A Crazy Tramp Hangs A Boy
Byron, Wis., April 1 – Frank Dyre, an 8-year-old boy, and a friend named Flannigan were playing with a wheel and rope yesterday, when a crazy tramp caught them and told them he was going to kill one of them. He knocked down the Dyre boy, tied the rope around his neck, threw it over a limb of a tree close by and stringing him up, left him hanging there. The Flannigan boy ran for help and the lad was rescued just in time.
("The Guthrie Daily Leader"; Guthrie, Oklahoma; April 2, 1895 - Transcribed as written, by D. Donlon)
Charged with Taking Liquor on a Reservation
George W. Levis, a deputy United States marshal from Wisconsin, brought to St. Paul yesterday Frank Montreille, a half-breed who is wanted for bringing liquor upon the Fond du Lac reservation. He will he taken to Duluth today by Deputy U.S. Marshal Sheehan. Montreille had been arrested and bound over, but jumped his bail, and was at large until captured in Wisconsin. He has already served a term in the penitentiary for the same offense.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.), June 14, 1896
