John_Meintz,_punished_during_World_War_I_-_NARA_-_283633_-_restored.jpg
Size of this preview:
468 × 600 pixels
.
Other resolutions:
187 × 240 pixels
|
374 × 480 pixels
|
599 × 768 pixels
|
799 × 1,024 pixels
|
2,308 × 2,958 pixels
.
|
Summary
John Meintz, punished during World War I
(
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author |
Unknown author
or not provided
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record creator | U.S. District Court for the Second (Mankato) Division of the District of Minnesota. (04/26/1890 - ca. 1951) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
John Meintz, punished during World War I
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English:
On August 19, 1918, amidst anti-German sentiment during World War I, German-American farmer John Meints (misspelled Meintz) was taken from his home in Luverne, Minnesota and driven to the border with South-Dakota. There, masked locals whipped him, threatened to shoot him, and tarred-and-feathered him, forcing him to cross the border and threatening to hang him if he returned. Meints named 32 of the men involved in a lawsuit, but they were acquitted, with the judge instructing the jury that the evidence strongly supported his disloyalty. Meints later won an appeal and settled out of court in 1922.
[1]
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | between circa 1917 and circa 1918 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record ID |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | U.S. National Archives and Records Administration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
|
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the
National Archives and Records Administration
as part of a
cooperation project
. The National Archives and Records Administration provides images depicting American and global history which are public domain or licensed under a free license.
|
|
This work is in the
public domain
in the United States because it is a
work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties
under the terms of
Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105
of the
US Code
.
Note
: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual
U.S. state
,
territory
, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the
United States Postal Service
since 1978
. (See §
313.6(C)(1)
of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see
The US Mint Terms of Use
.
|
|
| This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. | ||
|
This is a
retouched picture
, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications:
Repair rips, clean scratches and dust, adjust curves
. Modifications made by
Opencooper
.
|