Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson Co., Iowa
November 15, 1932
"SHOOT TO KILL" ORDERS THIS SHERIFF
Sheriff H. T. Wagner of Waterloo, launched a campaign
recently to put an end to the series of recent holdups in that
locality. He deputized 50 former service men into the army of
vigilantes equipped with pistols and sawed off shotguns. Wagner
stationed them at 50 outlying drug stores, filling stations and
grocery stores throughout that city.
Sheriff Wagner is offering a $100 reward to every vigilante who
kills or wounds a man in the act of staging a holdup or burglary,
and a $25 reward for information leading to the arrest of a
holdup man. The armed men will continue on guard until bandits
are cleaned out. Hardly a week has passed in the last few months
without a robbery in Waterloo, some of them netting as much as
several hundred dollars.
[transcribed by K.W., March 2015]