The herald., 1895-07-27

! will of the Omnipresent Creator I die in
the Roman Catholic churh. 1 cheerfully
consign myself 60 the will of One over
and above all.
Amen Amen !" repeated his adviser.
His arms had been pinioned and when
over Fredericks head. He stood as firm
as rock and turning to the warden who
stood beside him whispered: MAKE it
tight" Lunt held it till the cap was ad-
justed, then gave it lightning jerk and
raised his right hand. Fredericks shot
down the length Of the rope and died
without tremor. In eleven inmates the
physicians pronounced life extinct and
the body OF Fredericks was cut own. He
will carry to his grave the seciet of his
crimes.
Some Of His Deeds
SALT LAKE, Utah. July. ga spe-
clal to the Tribune from Butte. Mont,
says: According TO q story told the city
marshal by August Barrenstein, young
German, William M. Fredericks, who was
hanged in California today. was living in
Butte from August 1893. to January, 1894,
and was the murderer of three Cinnamon
who were found butchered and robbed in
their caoin near this city SeEtemb ber 30th
and also committed numbe of daring
same time. Barrenstein says he roomed
with Frsdericks, who at that time went
by the name of William Berrignan, and
the murderer frequently related incidents
of his care or. and poasted Of his crimes of
him, but threatened to kill the young
man if he ever betrayed him, and Bar
renstein was so much afraid of him that
he kept the secret until he knew Fred
ericks could not escape the gallows.
Fredericks told Barrnstein that he be-
longed to the Chris Evans band of out
laws in California, and had murdered
sheriff and brakeman in that state and
came to Montana to escape the officers
a highway robbery in Salt Lake, and
wrote his young German friend an ac-
count of it. Barrenstein has photograph
of Fredericks, which he took from his
pocket, and it leaves no doubt that Ber-
rigan and Fredericks wero one and the
same.
A Psychological Analysis
1t is generally known that there are
many forms of eplleptic disturbance
having terrible COMMISSIONS; some are
shrewdly, others criminally insane; and
some of the famous men of all ages have
been such in varying degrees. Napoleon
and Alexander the Great being notable
cases. A careful study of the body, brain
forms, conduct. ETC., of this coldhearted
murderer shows conclusively that he is,
or was until execution, an epileptlc. In
the Bible times these were called "de-
moniacs." when in aggravated degrees
they evinced their arrangements. Fred
ericks is of the type known as mental
moral epileptic. His teeth have the
ragged edges always found with heredi-
tary cases of this disorder.
Hirst of the Breslau university says in
his work on Diseases of the Nervous sys-
tena (page, 532) Epilepsy with or with
have from time to time transient physi-
cal disturbances. In such instances we
speak of epileptic equivalents. We must
leave to psychiatrists the task of investi-
eating their cause and significance. From
q medico-legal point OF view these puz-
ziing conditions possess great interest.
Its frequent combination with moral IN
sanity is interesting. (page 539). In
cases we are sometimes able to note bod
lily defects. as abnormalites in the forma-
tiUn of the skull and the teeth (page o41)
DR.. Osborne, superintendent of the
home of the feeble minded, Gelston. CAL.
stated to the writer that he built his
early rise in practice and reputation as a
physician upon the discovery by him
that certain cases of acute troubles in
children were due to uric acid congestion
OF the portions of the brain just above
and in front of the ear, which he re-
moved by the means of ample blistets,
loca lily applied at the side OF the head,
resulting in an immediate cure of the
violent convulsive states of the child.
In the case of Fredericks. the brain
above and back of this region (selish fac
ulties) is greatly enlarged. showing high
due to surcharged state by uric acid. His
body is in the pathological condition SO
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