Bio of William BUCKMAN (d.1879), Wright Co., MN

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/wright/wright.html
Under HISTORY.

NOTE: This file was scanned and changed to text so there may
be some typos.

602	HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

	  As a tragic culmination of a long series of annoyances 
from various sources to which a widow and her fatherless son 
was subjected, Charles Seig, a young boy living in Albion 
township near the Middleville line, shot William Buckman, July 5, 
1879, the wounds resulting in death two days later. The boy and 
his mother, Anna Seig, were duly indicted for murder. The defendants 
asked for a separate trial. At the first trial of Mrs. Seig the jury 
reported on November 10, 1879, that they had failed to agree, and were 
accordingly discharged. Another trial was held and on November 10, a 
verdict of manslaughter in the fourth degree was rendered. Mrs. Seig 
was sentenced to the state 's prison for two years. The son pleaded 
guilty and was sent to the state training school. The annoyances which 
led up to the event need not be detailed here. The testimony showed 
that on the fatal morning, William Buckman, Albert Buckman, Robert 
Wolf and Albert Wolf, who were going to a neighbor's to hoe corn, 
started across the Seig property. Some of them had hoes and one at 
least carried a stick. There was a path through the Buckman property, 
but it was overgrown with weeds which were heavy with dew, so the Seig
route was taken. While they were crossing the Seig property, the four 
were confronted by Mrs. Seig and her son.  The son carried a double 
barrel gun. Mrs. Seig ordered the tres-passers off her property. Then 
she told her son to shoot. He did not obey. William Buckman threw up 
his hand, and Mrs. Seig again ordered Charles to shoot. This time he 
fired wounding William Buckman in the head. The wounded man came at the
to be boy with a stick. Again the boy was ordered by his mother to fire
and once more he fired, wounding Buckman in the side. Suffering though 
Buckman was, he took hold of the boy and beat him several times with his 
stick, the lad defending himself with the barrels of his gun. Then they 
parted, and two days later Buckman died.