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The Waupun Leader
Friday, 11 July 1890

         Waupun, Wis., July 8th - HENRY BULLMAN, a life term
       convict, died on the 22d ult., leaving a clean Prison
       record, not having received a single black mark, and
       never having been reprimanded. BULLMAN was sent up
       from Fond du Lac county in 1868 for the murder of his
       wife. His wife was an Indian, a member of the Stock-
       bridge tribe. He owned a farm, and the Indians insisted
       upon using it for camping grounds, and very nearly ate
       him out of house and home. He finally told his wife to
       have nothing further to do with her Indian people. Soon
       after he went away from home on a short trip, but on
       his return he could not find his wife; she had gone to
       her people. BULLMAN started after her and she was not
       seen afterward until her dead body was discovered in
       the woods. He was arrested and tried twice; once in
       Oshkosh and once in Fond du Lac. On the second trial
       BULLMAN was found guilty. The strongest piece of evi-
       dence against him was the finding of a shawl his wife
       was wont to wear, in the granary on his place. The
       granary was locked and BULLMAN carried the key. The
       evidence was all circumstantial. A few years ago 
       BULLMAN'S two sons visited him in Prison and took what
       money the old man had for the ostensible purpose of
       procuring a pardon for him. But nothing more was ever
       heard of them or of any efforts on their part in refer-
       ence to the pardon. BULLMAN became a very trusted man
       in Prison, and was allowed to go down town on errands
       and out on the farm unaccompanied.
       
       Transcriber's Note: The murder of his wife, ANN,
       occurred in Brothertown, Calumet Co., WIS.in May,
       1868.  See our News Bits page for the newspaper
       extract of her murder and his arrest.
       Surname was BULMAN.
       
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