Newspaper Article Found Among Mead Documents

At Clerk of Courts Office, Waupaca County Court House

Milwaukee Journal

June 16, 1929

 

WAUPACA MURDER SOLVED AFTER 47 YEARS

 

            Although it is nearly a half-century since Waupaca’s first banker, H. C. Mead, was found slain, hardly a day passes in the central Wisconsin city that the old mystery is not discussed.  It is now revealed for the first time that one of the slayers confessed 25 years after the murder and named six other men.  Of the seven implicated in the crime by this confession six have died, but the seventh still walks about the streets of Waupaca, unsuspected by his fellow men – except one or two who know.  The pictures show Banker Mead and the small place he used as a bank.  It is now a plumbing shop.  (Note:  Photo of bank with inset of Banker Mead is not included with this material).