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St. Joseph Herald
Saturday, July 28, 1888


                            A Wild Drive
                            
              ED. WILSON, of Lincoln, created almost a
            panic in our village Saturday evening, about
            8 o'clock, by driving his double team attach-
            ed to a light spring wagon on a dead gallop 
            nearly three times around the business block
            bounded by State, Ship, Main and Pleasant
            streets. As the streets were crowded with
            people at the time it is simply a miracle
            that no person was killed or even injured
            or damage done to teams or to WILSON and
            his team. On the third round he was stop-
            ped in front of MARTIN'S store, jerked out
            of his wagon in lively order, and held un-
            til the Marshal came and took charge of
            him, when he was locked up in the "cooler."
            It's a wonder that he was not torn to
            pieces by the excited crowd for endanger-
            ing the lives and property of so many of
            our citizens. The horses were cared for
            at HERRING'S livery. On Monday WILSON was
            brought before Justice BREWER and assessed
            $50 and costs for his mad drive. The tem-
            per of our people is such that it would
            not do for WILSON or any other party to
            repeat it. It is said that WILSON was un-
            der the influence of liquor at the time;
            he had a sufficiently clear mind, however,
            to guide his team each time in safety
            around the corners and prevent injurty to
            himself. When caught one of our citizens
            was compelled to choke him quite hard to
            make him let go the lines.
            
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