Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-29
ALONG THE COAST.
HOMICIDE NEAR BLACKS STATION
IN YOLO COUNTY.
A Mothers Revenge = The Blood
Horse Races A Murderer
Who Feigned Insanity.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE BrooKpusIos.l
MURDER NEAR BLACKS.
William Wohlfrom Shoots and Fatal
Wounds Matt Fiegel

Wfluam WohIfrom Shoots and Fatally
Wounds Matt Fiegel.
WOODLAND, April 2Sth.-Shortly after 6
o'clock Saturday night Sheriff Weaver was
approached upon the street by William
Wohlfrom, an ex.jail bird, who said
have killed man near Blacks station, and
here's my pistol"
Wohlfrom to the Jail, where he made the
following statement;
g / work for Dan Bemmerly, near Cache
vile. A week or two ago man named
Matt Fiegel and myself went riding in a
buggy belonging to Bemmerly and badly
smashed il. Bemmerly told us we would
have to pay the damage. 1 paid nv half.
but Fiegel did not paw his. On Saturday
afternoon | thought l would 60 up tn the
Adele ranch, three miles west of Black s
station, and collect the money from him,
as | would have to pay it if he did not.
Dan Bemmerly went with me. When we
reached the Adele ranch saw Fiegel and
got out of the buggy to talk to him. asked
him for the money. He said, with an oath
Come on at the same time drawing a
long bla6ed knife. said Keep back but
he continued to advance. and when ONLY a
few feet away raised the knife as if to strike
me. Then | fired. he fell, end l left for
Woodland, saying | would give myself up.
No, don't think killed him. l wish |
had killed the e---.n
After making this statement he was
locked in dark cell. He asked the Sheriff
to lock him in with some other prisoner
but the officer refused.
Il wish you would send for Dan Benz
merly," he said, presently, Il think he'll
help me out of this scrape. If he don't I'll
kill myself
"Oh, nonsense" replied the Sheriff.
you'll come out all right" but the pris.
oner seemed to be very much excited and
frightened, Notwithstanding the reassuring
words of the Sheriff
Wohlfrom is German, very inferior
looking and about "a years of age Only a
month ago he was liberated from the
County Jail after serving a ninety days
sentence for stealing some clothing from
Main-street store.
When he surrendered to the Sheriff he
gave up his pistol, So caliber, Smith &
Wesson tiye-shooter. Strange to relate not
a chamber in the pistol was discharged and
Wohlfrom claims not to have reloaded it.
How did this happen? is the question
agitating the minds of many. Either
Wohlfrom had two pistols or some person
substituted the undischarged one for the
one that had been fired.
A correspondent from Blacks states that
Bemmerly and Wohlfrom went to the
Adele ranch, and, in his opinion, had gone
there to cause trouble. He said Feigel was
shot in the right breast and would die be-
fore morning, as the doctor said he was
bleeding internally.
Dan Bemmerly is well-known and
| prosperous farmer, residing near Cache
vile. That he would go on murderous
| errand is very improbable, yet in Justice to
all the matter should be sifted to the bot
| tom.
The statement made by Wohlfrom is GER
tainly peculiar one. 1t is strange that
| Feigel should make an unprovoked attack
upon him with knife simply because he
was asked for little money.
! Matt Feigel, or Geigler, is well known in
| Woodland. AT one time he worked for
Chris. Sieber and for while he was in the
employ of the Yolo brewery. He has al
ways been regarded as an inoffensive per-
son.
| Last night, at nine O'Clock, District AT.
torney Gaddis swore out warrant charg.
ing Dan Bemmerly with completely in the
crime. Sheriff Weaver left town at ten
o'clock to arrest Bemmerly.
AT 1:30 this Sunday morning Sheriff
Weaver arrived with his prisoner. Benz
merly thinks the whole matter very laugh
able. He was in bed when the officer ar
rived, and says he is not surprised to be
wanted. He says Feigel deserved what he
| got. At two o'clock he was locked up in
Jail.