Show BETWEEN DEVIL AND DEEP SE SEA j T 4 f Pun THE LAW OR THE Scalds Wife and Children and Flees From Indignant S Mob Kenosha VI WIs March 1 11 The It-The The maximum sentence under the law Jawor or lynching at the hands of or his neighbors neigh neigh- bore bors is the alternative presented to Christian a n. pleasant Prairie WIs Is is farmer charged with scalding his wife and children and In Inflicting inflicting In- In serious if not fatal tatal wounds cn was lan landed c fn In n jail only after atter the time sheriff sherIf by a ruse an and promIses promIses promises prom prom- rescued him from a posse of ot his neighbors who ho had been beon hunting him him au all day ay with tho time intention of taking tho law into their theil hands We c will take care of him they declared if he hc doesn't get the time limit un under er the tho law Tho The victims of the time theman's theman's mans man's rage rase are arc Whiskey Behind It Mrs Rat burned terribly about the Arms and back Chris Ras- Ras mussen young son entire back blistered bUs blis and burned burne condition critical Roso Rose daughter body and head scalded in terrible pain will recover Is alleged to have gone home In a n. drunken frenzy and heating a largo large kettle of ot water to have gone to tho the room occupied b by his son four years old and his daughter daugh daugh- ter nine years old and deliberately poured tho the boiling water over the children Mrs airs who was sleeping in a be bed In the tho same samo room attempted attempt attempt- e ed to save the lives of ot tho the children and the time man turned turne on her and poured hot water over her as won well She fled tIed from rom the house after aCter ho had scalded ed edher her and sought aid aM of oC the neighbors while the time children ron went into another bedroom and locking tho the door hid themselves under a bed They rimey remained there smothering their sobs until released b by neighbors and taken to the homo home of ot a friend where thc they received medical attend attend- ance Indignant Neighbors had fled hut but a band of farmers residing along the LakeShore Lake Lak Shore between WInthrop Harbor Harber Iii an and Kenosha WIs Vis armed themselves with shotguns revolvers and corn knives and patrolled the Lake Jako Shore for hours searching for him They hunted In vain aln and then encamped encamped en en- camped about home where the sheriff found oun them He managed to pacify them and arid later found who had been hiding hiding hid hid- ing lug and took him to jail joll |