DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Cameron, Wisconsin - 1898)

Yet another story of a father--identified here only by his last name, DUNN--who managed to inflict a fatal head injury on his infant child. We must have collected hundreds of these stories over the past year. We also have a dad who tried to strangle his wife, and who resisted arrest. In fact, he even took a shot at the Marshall who was there to arrest him, who lost part of his ear.

Only difference is that this case took place over 110 years ago. And that the authorities were actually worried this guy might get lynched for his crimes, so they moved him to a new location. These days, people just yawn and switch the channel.

From the New York Times, December 2, 1898

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E3DF113CE433A25751C0A9649D94699ED7CF

Father Kills His New-Born Child.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS., Dec. 1.--At Cameron, a village about thirty miles north of here, a child was born in a poor family named Dunn. The father, in a celebration of the event, became intoxicated, and on returning home seized the babe and dashed out its brains. He was on the midst of strangling his wife when neighbors interfered. The Marshal, with twelve men, arrested Dunn, but not before the latter fired several shots with a revolver, one of which clipped off one of the Marshal's ears. Dunn was taken to the county jail at Barron to prevent a lynching.