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1854 Cast Iron
Tombstone
Trial
Re-enactment
and
Historical
Reading
Monday,
February 12,
2007
Mount
Pulaski
Courthouse
Courtroom
Performance #5
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Cast & Re-enactment Information
Narrator:
[Geoff Ladd,
Lincoln]
Presiding Judge: Honorable David Davis
[Allen Schaal,
Mount Pulaski]
Defendant: Reuben Miller [Bill Gossett,
Lincoln]
Lawyer for the Defendant: Abraham
Lincoln [Jeff Clements,
Mount Pulaski]
Plaintiff: Nathaniel Whitaker [Phil
Bertoni,
Mount Pulaski]
Lawyer for the Plaintiff: David B.
Campbell [Tom Martin,
Mount Pulaski]
Bailiff: Sheriff John C. Hurt [Fred Lipp,
Mount Pulaski]
Preacher: Uriah Schwalb [Pastor Kevin
Treptow,
Mount Pulaski
First Methodist Church]
Mt. Pulaski House Bartender: Raspus Finfrock
[Jerry Maxheimer,
Mount Pulaski]
Wife of Defendant: Mrs. Miller [Chris
Milliman,
Lincoln]
Wife of Plaintiff: Mrs. Whitaker [Joyce
Maxheimer,
Mount Pulaski]
Forman: [Zach Hart, Illiopolis]
Jury: [Selected by the Bailiff at each
performance]
Musician: [Joyce Maxheimer, Mount Pulaski]
Courthouse Director & Greeter:
[Wally Kautz,
Mount Pulaski]
Photographers:
[Allen Schaal, Phil Bertoni]
Originator: Darrell Knauer
Script Writers: Darrell Knauer, Phil Bertoni,
Bob McCue
Research Documents:
History of Logan County;
Judge Lawrence B. Stringer,
Chicago Pioneer Publishing Co., 1911
Photocopies of 1854 & 1855
Lincoln and Mount Pulaski Tombstone appeal trials from
Illinois
Supreme Court manuscripts, Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Library, Springfield, IL.
Manuscript
material by James Hickey, former curator of A.
Lincoln Collection at Springfield Library
History
of Mount Pulaski, 1836 – 1976;
Lawrence B. Stringer; Harry J. Wible, Editor and Publisher
Producer: Mount Pulaski Bi-Centennial
2009 Committee
Special
Thank You:
To all previous and current cast members and understudies,
and others who have
volunteered
their time, ideas, and assistance in making this
re-enactment a reality and success.
Special Thank You: To Stan Manes and
family for loaning two original paintings of a 1855 Cast
Iron
Tombstone
trial participant & his wife.
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