People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — Confessed and Was Lynched. [ARTICLE]

Confessed and Was Lynched.

West Superior, Wis., Feb. B.—Andrew Pikkarien, a Russian Finn, was lynched at Ewen, a small village near here, Tuesday night. Pikkarien was arrested for assaulting a child at Bruce’s Crossing and taken to Ewen, where he was placed in the village jail. Readmitted his guilt, and fifty citizens wearing masks surrounded the frail structure in which he was placed to lynch him. Officers protested, but to no avail. The jail doors were smashed in and the culprit dragged out. A rope was placed about his neck and he was dragged 80 rods to a railroad trestle* where he was hanged.