The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-18
AFTER FOUR YEARS.
Friedrichs to Be Put on Trial
for Murder.
STREET GRADE TAX RESISTED,
.ait brought by Lady Traveller for
Hsin~ Elected From . Railroad Car
Work Of the Grand Jury.

rhe xrans Jury il stiIl In session and yester-
~ deslt with three cases Chief OF these was
mat OF Albert Friedrichs. who was indicted Tor
the murder OF Julius Scherbring on July IA, 1857.
The circumstances related by the victim on
his desth.bed were exceptionally revolving, but
the accused man is still in jail, as he has been
four Years. He has been tried and convicted,
INIT his counsel took an appeal to the supreme
cours on the charge OF the judge. The appeal
vss succss>ful aud new trial ordered.
The murder took place about o'clock in the
svening Of July IA, 1887. Friedrichs was a shoe
maker and be and Julins scherbring were init
mate friends.
Roth were German and the secret of their
deep friendship was believed TO be in the fact
nat both were deserters from the nfted States
amy.
The evening of July IA found the two men
dsinking In a saloon at the south end of the
Grant street bridge. Shortly after s O'Clock
TYfedriehs and Scherbring parted from the men
yhey had been drinking with and started to-
wards Seattle. They had left the saloon about
6fteen minutes when those who were behind
still drinking heard two pistol shots and cries
Of "Murder'' and "Help." Several men ran
down the bridge in the direction the two men
had gone and they found Scherbring. his face
batbed In blood alone. He was ciinging to the
railing Of the bridge and a bullet-hole was in
his head, just below the left ear. He said
sFredricbs shot me-"
scherbring was carried to Providence hospital
and lived for two days.
In the meantime Friedrichs clsverly evaded
the officers but he was finally captured the day
after the shooting and was returned to Seattle.
BE was then taken into the presence of the
wounded man In the ospital. scherbring iden-
tilted him a. the man who shot him.
few hours later scherbring made afidavit TO
the effect that they were walking along the
l-fI ~ - d~fnt .tnf, "A
Knocked him down. He was stunned, but man
aged to cry for help. While he was pleading for
mercy, he said, Friedrichs kneeled on his breast,
and told him:
aHold on, scherbring, it will be all over in
minute!"
Friedrichs then fred the second bullet, which
took effect in the head.
scherbring died July l6. on the evening of the
nme day Friedrichs was captured and few
hours afterward he made the statement.
Upon the LIST of September, 1857, he was regu-
lArly indicted by the grand jury and was tried
before Justice Richard A. Jones In the October,
1887, term of court He was convicted of MUIR
der In the first degree, and was sentenced to be
hung the following March. The sentence was
pronounced upon the accused in December, but
an appeal was taken 10 the supreme court by his
attorney, James Hamilton Lewis, upon several
technical points, and denied, but application for
. new trial was granted
II could not be brought out in evidences before
the court, but Ii was generally understood that
scherbring had come into right OF some prop
erty in Germany. He had received a remit
lance Of money and was about to return. Fried
richs fear was said to be that scherbring would
reveal the formers abiding place to his old
neighbons, and so notify his deserted wife and
children.
Friedrichs was informed yesterday OF the pre-
sentiment and took the news very sullenly. He
10 said to be OF disagressble disposition, AMI
his society is shirked by the other prisoners.
The witnesses examined by the grand jury
were Matthew II. Connors, w. Cochrane, George
F. Max Kriegk, w. A. Harrington, Conrad
Brehm, Agnes Mcdonald, w. Krause, ar, w.
Krause, IT., and J. NJ. Quilter.