Fox
Nothing is known about his early life untill he and his gang of 12 started causing trouble around Two Rivers, Wisconcin in 1849.
He and his "Fox Gang" would periodically come into town with a shipment of stolen shingles or lumber, get drunk, and begin looking for fights. After they had there fun, they would slink bad into the woods.
One day, his men noticed a flag pole. His men bet Fox that he couldnt climb that pole and bring down the flag. He took the bet. About 10 or 12 feet up, the pole broke, and Fox landed right in a mud puddle. His men laughing at him, Fox was outraged further when some geese started squakking. Enraged to the point that he thaught the geese were laughing at him, he took a club and began killing the geese. The owner of the geese, Edward Mueller, who also owned the flagpole, attcked Fox in his Geese's defence. With one one good punch, Mueller was out cold. Fox and his men slinked back into the woods.
The sherrif, McCollum, rounded up a possy and tracked Fox down to a little shack in the middle of the woods. Inside, Fox was sitting alone and drunk silly. The sherrif shook his shoulder and notified him about his statis of being under arrest. Fox got up as if to follow peacefully, but swung his knife and wounded the sherrif. As Fox fled, he was stopped by a man named Linstedt, who told Fox to put down the knife, or he would kill him. Fox surrendered.
In court, Fox was calm and obediant. However, one night, he asked to use the bathroom, which were still outside at the time. In the blackness of the night, he slipped away back into the night and slinked back into his woods.
This site created by Jon Lamphere, May 6, 2007
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