Word: risjord
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...Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Dorothy Beauregard, an Indian of the Bad River Reservation, deserted her eleven children as a result of a love charm exercised over her by Indian Bobidosh Cederroot. John J. Teepee and 23 other Indians filed a petition with Judge G. N. Risjord asking clemency for Mrs. Beauregard, stating that she loved her husband & eleven children, that she was not responsible for deserting them, that the love charm was infallible, that it had been procured from a medicine man, that real Indian medicine men had "almost supernatural powers." Judge Risjord gave Mrs. Beauregard & Mr. Cederroot a year each...
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