Anabaptist hunters were employed in the 18th century. In 1734 two Anabaptist hunters were out and about to catch Christian Siegenthaler in the lower Hälig, Wüthrich zu Häuser, Hans Gerber, called “Stadler”, and David Baumgartner. The Anabaptist yegi were disturbed by the fact that the persecuted “were warned with horns, shooting, Scheyen and similar signs” and were able to flee or hide. In the family house Fankhauser in behind-huts is still under the “Bühni” an Anabaptist hiding place to visit. An unpleasant story happened in autumn 1726. Three Anabaptist hunters wanted to arrest the three Anabaptist women Anni Blaser von Langnau, as well as Elsbeth Schenk and Cathri Hofstetter, the mother and wife of the house owner Hans Baumgartner, in the windbreak above Kröschenbrunnen. This and two of his friends resisted and rightly stated that they were on Lucerne soil. Therefore nothing should be done to women. They made threats against the hunters: They want to show them the March! Baumgartner had pulled the knife, he would rather die before the hunters carry the women away. He and his friends have also uttered “appalling and terrible curses and words” against the Anabaptist hunters. They told the Anabaptist Wüthrich that he was a “bad Gsell, rogue,

The persecution of the Bernese Anabaptists lasted for more than three centuries. The Federal Constitution of 1848 finally brought them freedom of belief and conscience.  –Source