Peterson Arrest01

Waupaca Post

June 6, 1907

ARRESTED

Mrs. George W. Peterson, Mrs. Martin Gilbert, Ralph Peterson and Melvin Peterson, the latter young men who were boarding with Mrs. Peterson, were arrested on Saturday morning, upon the charge of adultery, preferred by Geo. W. Peterson and Martin Gilbert, the husbands of the two women, Mrs. Gilbert being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson. G.W. Peterson, who is foreman of one of the section crews constructing the Waupaca Green Bay railway, drove down from Scandinavia on Friday night, having had suspicions that all was not right at his home, and secured the assistance of Officer Hudson and another. They went to the house, the family having recently moved into the Chapman house on State Street, about midnight, and it is said that one of the Peterson boys and Mrs. Martin Gilbert jumped out of the window while the three were forcing an entrance into the house, and the other Peterson boy was found in the room with Mrs. Peterson.

The two boys were kept in the city lock up over night, and on Saturday morning, the four were brought before Police Justice Heaney, the preliminary examination being postponed until Saturday, June 8. The women were released upon their promise to be present, and the boys were held in bail of $250, in default of which they are sojourning in the county jail.