Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — MOB VICTIM ASKS $80,000 [ARTICLE]

MOB VICTIM ASKS $80,000

lowa Farmer Bues Sheriff for Threat* Against Him -in 1917 aa Pro-German. Council Bluffs, la., Dec. 30.—Fred Tennigkeit. farmer of near Andubon, who was nearly lynched by a mob at that place December 17, 1017, has brought suit in federal court * here against B. F. Wilson, sherifT of Audubon county, asking SBO,OOO damages as a result of the attacks. Tennigkeit was accused of pro-Germanism. He asserts that while he was concealed in a bank the sherifT opened the doors and told the mob that he was the man they wanted. While the crowd had a rope around his neck, Tennigkeit was forced to sign a check for SI,OOO in favor of the Red Crass. He agreed to leave town, and while members of the mob waited at his home with a rig, Tennigkeit slipped out the hack way and escaped. He is said to have gone to Denver. The mob forced Rev. W. A. Stark, a German minister, to leave town tile same night.