The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-24
BLOODY WORK IN A BANK.
Cashier Brutality Murdered by
b WeII-Known Desperate.

Cashier Brutality Murdered by
o. weI-Knovn Desperate.
San Francisco, March "a man
went into the branch bank of the San
Francisco Savings Union, which is
situated at the corner of Market and
Polk streets, about $50 o'clock this
morning.
He presented a written demand for
money to Cashier William A. Herrick
The demand was refused, whereupon
the desperate murdered the cashier
and fled, but was captured few
blocks away.
The note presented to the murdered
cashier read as follows
'.Mr. Cashier, Sir:-After considering
my depIorabIe condition, L am con-
WINGED that this life is not worth liv-
ing without liberal means, and, there
fore. [ am resolved to make one more
effort to seek help to sustain my
miserable existence. Should you not
comply with my demand, 1 am com
PEELED to employ my last remedy-a
bottle of nitro-glycerine, and to bury
myself under the ruins of the building,
blasted to everlasting nothingness.
yours respectfully
"A DESPONDENT MAN"
This note was penned in red ink, and
at the bottom was rudely sketched a
skull and cross bones.
After glancing at the document, Her
rick returned it to the man with
shake of the head. The man quickly
drew a revolver and fired, but his aim
was bad. Herrick seized his pistol
which lay beside his desk. The cashier
and desperate fired at each other al
most simultaneously. The former
missed. but the latter's second shot
found its mark.
The bullet passed into Herrick's
heart.
AS the murderer turned to flee. Book
keeper G. S. Melvin drew pistol and
sent a number of bullets after him, two
of which it was afterwards discovered
took effect. The assassin was pursued
from the scene by a large crowd of
people, among which was a quar-
tette of police officers. The fugitive
jumped into a wagon and drove several
blocks. Finally he turned into a blind
alley, and was forced to abandon this
method of escape. He jumped over a
fence into a yard and crawled under
vacant house. There the officers To-
Gated him, and, Though the murderer
had a pistol in each hand, ne surren-
dered.
Upon the prisoner was found two 40
calibre pistols, a belt, full of cartridges,
a dirk knife, razor and fuse, such
as is used to ignite dynamite.
On being taken to the city prison, he
gave his name as Fred Bonnement, and
said he came here from Denver last
week He had been seriously wounded
by Melvin's bullets, one striking his
temple near the eye. the other lodging
in his left shoulder. 1t was not long
before the police recognized in their
prisoner a desperate criminal for whom
the authorities throughout the state
have been searching for some time He
proves to be none other than the no.
| torious Fredericks, an eX-convict, who
was at one time a confederate of the
band of Chris Evans. He killed Sheriff
Paecoe, of Nevada county. He subse-
Iquently killed Southern Pacific Brake
man Benjamin Bruce, and is the man
who supplied the arms to George Son
| tag and his companions at the time
they made their futile attempt to es-
| cape from prison.
Fredericks' last victim, Cashier Her.
rick, was So years of age and resided in
| Oakland.