Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-14


enauer, wife OF the other defendant, and IL.
D. Groeneveld. The testimony upon the
part of the people was in effect, as follows
G. G. Barnes and E. II. Renfro, who is a
hacsman in Sacramento, took rockaway
and drove down the Riverside road on the
9th day of August last. Toward evening
they stopped at Groenevelds saloon, at the
Sutterville Corner. There they took supper,
by invitation, with Mr.. and Mrs. Groeneveld
aud Mrs. Lizzie Aschenauer, who was for
merly known as Lizzie Allen, and the propri'
etor of the Halfway House on the Riverside
road. She married Aschenauer few months
since.
After supper it was proposed and agreed
by all the parties at the supper to take a ride
in the rockawsy, which was double seated.
hey were TO drive to East Park and other
resorts for driving in the city. and at the con-
clusion to leave Barnes at his home in the
city, and Renfro take the others to their
homes at Sutterville. They got into the car
rage, Rsufro and Groeneveld taking the
front seat and Barnes and the ladies the rear
seat. After driving as far towards the city
as the Halfway House, situated just below
the Riverside school-house, which place they
reached about o'clock in the evening, Asche-
nauer and Wheeler came out of the Halfway
House saloon, which was kept by George d.
Peters, and Aschenauer called to Renfro, who
was drifting, to stop. Renfro turned around
and asked Barnes if they should stop, and
Barnes said yes. Aschenauer and Wheeler
came out 30 the carriage, and Asehenausr
presented cooked revolver at Barnes head,
c ose to the temple, and said he was going to
kill him. He demanded and insisted that
Barnes should get out and go into the saloon.
Barnes complied, following Aschenauer and
Wheeler inside. Aschenauer and Barnes
l. ~ &lo
scented check on D. o. Mills & Co.'S bank
for $4,000, and demanded that Barnes
should sign il. Aschenauer called on Peters
barkesper for pen and ink, when Barnes re.
piled: "No matter about q pen and ink.
will not sign it. [ will see you
in - first" AZ this Aschensuer again
drew his revolver and held it
close to Barnes head, but the latter turned
around and walked out of the saloon, not
withstanding the continued demands and
threats. When they had proceeded five or
six steps from the house, Aschenauer and
Wheeler following him up, Aschenauer
struck Barnes n powerful blow on the back
of the head with his revolver, knocking him
down, aud then continued TO beat him in the
face and over the head until he had broken
the revolver into three pieces, and had also
broken Barnes nose, mutiabed his face and
head in horrible manner, rendering him
entirely unconscious and apparently closes.to
deaths door.
While thus beating him Renfro sought to
interfere in Barnes behalf, when Wheeler
drew revolver, and holding it upon Renfro,
compelled him to refrain from making any
effort in that direction. Finally Renfro said
to Wheeler: "Are you going to stand hy
and see this man beat up in this way?'
Wheeler replied by saying to Aschenauer
S - lot alA
Aschenauer then left him, and Renfro says
that be asked Wheeler if he could take
charge Of Barnes, and Wheeler answered,
F." Yes; he's hurt enough, and you can take
your man away" Renfro then took him to
near house on the Riverside road, ana pro-
cured medical assistance for him.
At this point Barnes says that to the best
of his recollection of the matter, when he
had been left in an unconscious state at the
time he was beaten, he soon after came to
and wandered into the brush on the levee,
ard after staying there a time, made his
way to a house on the Riverside road, where
he was cared for.
Renfro states that after the matter had &C.
Cured he went back to the Halfway House,
and while there, in company with Wheeler
and Peters, Wheeler remarked to him that if
be (Reufro) WANTED any of this he could
have it." whereupon Wheeler pulled out his
revolver and fred it off, but without aiming
it at RenFro, and the bullet entered the casing
of the porch door.
The testimony further shows that before
Barnes had LIFT the saloon, and when Asche-
nauer was demanding of him to sign the check
for so, coo, Wheeler remarked to Aschensuer,
"Don'5 let him go out of here unless he
signs that check if you don't make him
sign il, viii"
Dr. Nixon testified in relation to the ex-
tent Of the wounds, and said that Barnes was
confined to his bed at Sutterville, and was
unable to be removed to the city for sew
eral weeks.
The defense introduced J. S. Wheeler as
witness in his own behalf. He testified
that Aschenauer told him that Barnes had
ruined him; that he had estranged his wife
from him and broken up his family and his
home; that he had commenced proceedings
for divorce from his wife: that he and
Aschenauer were at the Halfway House
saloon, and had called for two small glasses
of beer; that while the beer was on the
counter he heard Aschenauer go out
of the door, but he (WheeleI)
did not leave the saloon; that Aschenauer
and Barnes came into the saloon, and Asch-
enauer endeavored, by holding revolver at
Barnes head, to force the latter to sign a
check that he refused to do so, and left the
saloon that he (witness) made no remark in
the saloen against Barnes, and took no
hand in the proceedings: that he did not
go out OF the saloon until after the assault
had been made by Aschenauer on Barnes ;
that when be went out he asked Aschenauer
to desist, and he did so; that he saw
no blows struck, and that while
on the porch he told Renfro that he (Renfro)
was to blame for the trouble existing between
Aschenauer and his wife, and that he
(Wheeler) took out self-cocking pistol and
it went Off.
At the conclusion Of the examination
Wheeler was held to answer upon the charge
Of assault to murder, and the charge of at
tempt to extort money was continued for
three weeks.
CHURCH ENTLRTAINMENT.-The ladies of
the Congregational Church were very lib
orally patronized at yesterdays noon