Frederick Cartwright
Frederick Cartwright, about sixty years old, lived with a wife and a large family on disputed Indian land in Waushara County, Wisconsin, and had been away from them for more than a year before he returned home. According to a Milwaukee Sentinel correspondent, reprinted in the Marquette Mercury and the New York Herald in March 1854, a crowd gathered at his house and an exchange of gunfire followed before he surrendered to officers on their assurance of protection. While the officers were taking him toward a justice for examination, about four miles from the Waushara County settlement, a group of men took him from them, tied him and hanged him from a tree. The accounts say friends took his body down that evening, and the report's details differ slightly between versions, as this is an OCR copy of the original text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Milwaukee Sentinel correspondent reported that a group of men took him from officers while they were taking him to a justice for examination, then tied him and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Milwaukee Sentinel correspondent (reporters); Marquette Mercury (reporters); New York Herald (reporters).