News: The Wisconsin Krueger Family Tragedy (Kay Scholtz - 2015)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Scholtz, Krueger

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 1/28/2015

The Wisconsin Krueger Family Tragedy (Kay Scholtz - 2015)

The Black River Falls Public Library will welcome back Clark County author, Kay Scholtz, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, at 10:30 a.m. Scholtz will share the writing of her book on the Krueger Family tragedy, which took place Sept. 14, 1918, near Withee. The farm family found their lives torn apart for refusing to fight in a war overseas. Their home was surrounded and shot up that day by lawmen and neighbors in what Frank Krueger later dubbed ‘a patriotic frenzy.’ With one man dead and several injured, two of the four Krueger brothers suffered the consequences with life imprisonment while their youngest brother disappeared. The Krueger story made press across the U. S.

In her book, ‘The Wisconsin Krueger Family Tragedy - 16 years of Letters from Prison,’ Scholtz shares excerpts from the never-before published collection of several hundred letters exchanged by the Krueger family.

For more information on the Jan. 31, 2015, program, contact Mary I. Woods in the Black River Falls Public Library-Jackson County History Room, 222 Fillmore Street, Black River Falls, WI, 54615 or call 715-284-4112 or email her at m.woods@wrlsweb.org.