The morning call., 1894-04-16
CRIME COMES HOME
Another Murder Charged
to FrederiCkS.
The Police Also Suspect Their Pris-
oner of Having Robbed CHRIS
Nobman's Grocery.

Should Murderer Fredericks by any mis-
chance escape the moose which appears to
be tightening around his neck in the Her
rick case he will have to face another that
stands ready for him. He has recently
been identified by several persons as the
man who killed Sheriff Pascoe of Nevada
County.
Yesterday he was positively recognized
as the man who shot Brakeman Bruce at
Colfax on the 28th of June last. The man
who identified him was no stranger, whose
only means of recognition was the remem-
brance of passing glance, but once boon
companion and fellow-workman of the
prisoner. This man is j. f. Cotton. a
laborer. His story seems to be a straight
one, but Fredericks denies it all with a
wave of his hand.
Cotton was brought to this city yesterday
by Ben True. a railroad detective, who
found him at Wheatland engaged as a
farmland.
When Bruce was shot near the water
tank at the Colfax station Cotton was
present, and was arrested and charged
with the offense. He soon proved his in-
nocence and was discharged. Cotton said
be knew the man who shot Bruce, and
could identify hin whenever found. After
Fredericks was arrested and suspicion
aroused that he killed Sheriff Pasc0e.
Cotton was shown the picture of Herrick' s
murderer. He at once said, THAT is the
man who shot Bruce"
So Cotton was brought to San Fran
cisco.
SIS that the man" whispered Detective
Seymour to Cotton yesterday. as he point
ed out Fredericks In his cell.
1T is" was the answer.
Here's a friend of yours, Fredericks !;
be wants to talk to you," said Seymour.
Fredercks looked at Cotton, but he did
not acknowledge acQuain tance. Seymour
thought he pretended not 20 recognize
Colton.
"Don't you know me?" asked Cotton,
looking at the murderer with unflInching
gaze. Don't you remember we sat on
the water-tank at Colfax, and you got up
aud went on the train, and the brakeman
ordered you downp Don't you recolleG
you got down and went on the other side
of the train with pistol in your hand and
said. 'Ill fix this -- of brake
manY Then you shot him. Don't you
remember this?"
How can / remember" answered Fred
ericks coolly. Il was not there. l don't
know you and never saw you before"
IN ?" returned Cotton incredulously.
"Yes you do. Don't you remember you
were walking across the track before the
shooting and | acc0sted you, asking if you
remembered me. Did not l ask you how
you got out of that scrape on the train
near Redding. when you 1ammed drunken
mans head through the window glass and
the conductor said he would have you ar
rested at the next station. Don't you
recollect you told me you jumped the train
before it reached ReddIng?"
mo, l DON'T" said Fredercks. red In
the face and in an angry tone. who paid
you to come down here and sag these
things to injure me? l don't know YOU"
Nobody paid me-" answered Cotton.
SIT is the truth. | worked with you at
Delta in the snowsheds, and up north
near Redding. l know you we'll, but you
member you told me al the water tank
that you had been waiting twenty-four
hours for some friends. and that If they
did not turn up pretty soon you would
Jump the next train? ?"
again denied emphatically that he was the
whom he accused of being hired and paid
10 injure him and his case.
adjective Seymour endeavored to find
Nobman yesterday. so that he could see
Fredercks. but the groceryman was at San
Rafael all day, so that the Identification of
Fredercks, if he be the burglar, was post
poned till to-day. The police APP ear to be
heaping on Fredericks' shoulders all the
crimes on the calendar. Fredericks denies
that he was the man at Colfax who shot
Bruce or that he ever burgarIzed the store
of Nobman.