Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-08

had a drink. Freeman picked up bar.
monica and played it for while. We had
several more drinks after that. We then
went home.
when we got home continued Wilke
sit was something after ten O'Clock. There
was no light in the house. The cook was
in bed, and called me BY name when we
came in.
HE said, ARCHIE, your suppers are wait
ing for you on the table. Go in and get
lamp. You will find plenty to eat
Il said All right Shorty never mind
getting up
Il then passed on into the kitchen, and
was hunting for match to light the lamp,
which was on the table; but before could
find the lamp Freeman went on into the
bedroom, and was standing at the head of
Shorty's bed. He called 10 me TO come
there. I turned around before lighting the
lamp and went into the bedroom.
"'Now,' said Freeman, IN going to end
this - -, and you have got to
help me.
think he meant it. l said. / guess not,
Charley 1 don't think you would do any
thing of the kind
He said, I am; and you
if you don't help, I'll murder you, too
fHe had his gun in his hand-a breech
loading shotgun. l tried TO pass around
him so as to go outside, away from him,
but when | started he struck me over the
head with the gun, and knocked me
against the side of the wall, and on to the
bed on which Shorty was lying. l reached
up and caught the gun by the barrel. He
managed to cock the gun, and said: You
-, I'll blow your brains out if you do
not help to put an end to this man life
II said: For mercy's sake, Charley, don't
kill me-.
The cook spoke up in about the same
words, and begged him not to kill him.
While | was still holding on to the gun
Freeman gave himself wrench and swung
me around, and struck me with his right
hand, and knocked me back on the bed
again. Then he tried to grasp me by the
throat, but got my coat instead. Then he
caught me by the right ear with his teeth
and began to bite me. I begged him to
quit.
He said Will you help me to murder
the cook?'
Il said: 4 will have to, I suppose.
You will or die, said Freeman, and
then he let me up.
SThen, turning to Shorty, he said,
Shorty you - get up your
time has come.
Shorty said, 'All right, Charley, and he
got up, shaking like a leaf and frightened
out of his wits.
Freeman still kept his gun in his left
hand and picking Shorty up with his
other arm he started out with him, saying,
Come on I'm going to drown you On
the way out he turned around to me and
said You follow, or I'll blow your brains
OUT He carried Shorty with ease, being
big, powerful man, while Shorty is very
small.
HE led the way outside to the watering
trough, and then lifting Shorty up, he
showed him down head first into barrel
of drinking water, aud held him there
three or four minutes, | think l was
pretty badly scared at the time, but think
that was about as long as he held him
down-about four minutes.
Now said Freeman. to me, he is
drowned-he is dead. You go TO the barn
and get on Beecher, the horse, and go to
De Kay's.'
u said, Charley, I don't want to ride
Beecher-Tm afraid of him. l do not
think he has ever been ridden
Freeman said he was a good riding
horse. l told him l would get the other
horse, and Freeman consented. He fol-
lowed me to the barn and helped me to put
on the bridle He went outside and helped
me onto the horse.
Now" be said, "you go to DeKay's
and tell them that when we came from
Antelope we found the cook drowned. If
you do not, III murder you. I'll go down
to the Twelve-mile House and tell Mr..
Frieke
L made the horse go as fast as I could.
l went to De Kays, and told them that
uac daad that Eropraau had
killed him. l did not return until this
morning at o'clock. Freeman was still
there but the Constable had charge Of him.
He said to me, You have played Ii by
getting me arrested, haven't you? l only
replied, I guess have. 1t seems that the
Constable had come there while l was
gone
Wilke denies that he had any ill-feeling
toward the cock, and did not wish to see
him put out of the way. He asserts that
he would have stopped the murder were
he not afraid of his own life. He accounts
for his own arrest by saying that Freeman
was mad because he gave him away"
Assistant District Attorney Bruner said
last night that from wha be had learned
and seen at Antelope lie was convinced
that the killing of Feeley was cne of the
most cold-b -blooded murders ever commit
ted. In his search for evidence Mr.
Bruner learned from young man who
was in Friekes saloon on Thurs
day evening while Wilke and Free
man were there, that the latter made
the statemant that 'the cook would die
to- morrow" He also learned from people
living in the vicinity of Antelope, and who
know Freeman, that the latter has sort
of mania for drowning people, and has
twice tried to murder persons in this man.
ner since his residence in that locality.
One of the attempts was made only two
weeks ago at Roseville, when he tried to
sink young man in a watering trough.
The feeling among the farmers and
others living in and about Antelope and
Roseville, says Mr.. Bruner, was demon
strated yesterday to be very pronounced,
and nearly all expressed a desire to see
Freeman prosecuted to the bitter end.
Freeman's own brother-in-law volun-
teered the information to the Assistant
District Attorney, that only recently Free
man told his (the brother-in-law' wife
that he intended TO put the cook out of the
way.
character throughout the locality, and is
said to be particularly dangerous when IN
liquor.
Feeley. on the other hand, is described
as having been q peaeeable, quiet and mot
fensiye creature, who did everything in his
power to please, and would be the last per-
son in the world to provoke any one TO do
violence. He at one time was employed
in the capacity of cook at II. T. Dillman's
saloon. in this city. He was native OF
England, and unmarried.