Around Burlington: Man faced vigilante mob, mad wife after a night with bad whiskey
Bob Hansen
for The Hawk Eye
Charlie Wetzel was having a bad day. In fact, Charlie was having just about as bad a day as could be imagined.
He had consumed perhaps a few more alcoholic beverages than was wise, he tore his trousers, angered his wife, and he was now standing in front of a Prospect Hill home while one of Burlington’s better known physicians shot at him with a horse pistol.
Wetzel’s afternoon slide into disaster began that November afternoon in 1889 when he joined a few friends at a “doggery” bar in the Cascade Avenue area. There he was having a few whiskeys and discussing the meaning of life when his wife arrived at the bar.
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