Though this is the only time it is know that a mob of people were involved, this would not be Peter Pliska’s only publicized encounter with the police and what would consistently be his downfall, alcohol. Pliska would be no stranger to constant troubles. He became well known to Judge Murat, standing before him numerous times over the years, and the local police, as well as the guards at the State Prison at Waupun. Pliska was arrested a few times for abandoning his 5 minor children after his wife died at the age of 39. He eventually sat time in prison for those charges. When he was paroled he could not stay away from alcohol and had soon had his parole revoked. When he was released again he continued to drink and was even publicly blacklisted in the papers. Over the years Pliska was arrested for various crimes such illegal spearfishing, drunk and disorderly, obscene and abusive language, and making his own alcohol during prohibition. At 62 years old he was sent back to Waupun for stealing chickens. Peter Pliska was certainly a local character, He appears in the newspapers a number of times and we will likely revisit him again.

Front Page, February 16, 1905, Stevens Point Daily Journal