News: Colby (30 Oct 1878)
Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Freeman, Hogan, Preston, Siegrist, Swarthout
----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 10/29/2014
Originally published in the Colby Phonograph, 30 October, 1878
Two young men, Ike Preston and Mike Hogan, working in Lamont’s mill, just south
of the village, visited this place on Monday night, and after having drinks with
the boys and having a good time generally, asked John Siegrist to go and show
them the way to the meat market.
John, being a quiet and accommodating young man, started with them, but just as
soon as they got out where there was no one to interfere they commenced an
assault on him that was brutal in the extreme, one holding him while the other
done the pounding.
The young men were arrested last night by Deputy Sheriff Swarthout, and brought
before Justice Freeman for examination, which was adjourned until tomorrow
morning, and the young men placed under bail for their appearance at that time.
There has been too much of this knocking down and pounding of inoffensive
citizens, in the past, and it is to be hoped that an example will be made of
these festive youths.
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