Sheriff Wilson Sued for $80,000 by Tennigkeit (1920)

WILSON, TENNIGKEIT, VAN GORDER, JOHNSON

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 1/2/2014 at 20:26:23

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, Dec. 30, 1920, page 1

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Sheriff Wilson Sued for
$80,000 by Tennigkeit

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Sheriff B. F. Wilson and his
bondsmen, Charles VanGorder and
Edward F. Johnson have been sued
for $80,000 by Fred Tennigkeit,
formerly an Audubon County far-
mer, who, in time of the war was
mobbed and hung until unconscious
because of his sympathies being
pro-German and made to sign a
check for $1 00 for the Red Cross.
Tennigkeit claims that B. F. Wil-
son, the sheriff, failed to offer him
any protection but instead handed
him over to the mob. Tennigkeit
askes $50,000 damage from the sher-
riff and $15,000 from each of his
bondsmen.