Posted on 01/07/2024 9:53:53 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
After Killing Three Persons and Wounding Others He Is Barbarously Lynched
SEATTLE, Wash. T., Jan. 7. — Alfred Shaffer [sic], a Bohemian, fired a heavy charge of giant powder under the house of George Bodala, at Gilman,* thirty miles east of Seattle, at 4:30 o’clock this morning, instantly killing John and Michael Scherrick, and Anna, the 9-year-old child of Bodala, and badly wounding Bodala, his wife, and little son and daughter.
Last spring Bodala caused the arrest of Schaeffer on the charge of criminal assault upon his wife. Schaeffer was sentenced to a short term of imprisonment, and when he was released he made such serious threats against the life of Bodala that he was again arrested, and incarcerated in jail nine days.
When he was released he returned to Gilman, and since then he lost no opportunity attempting to injury Bodala, and this morning put his threats into execution. The two Scherricks and the little girl were instantly killed.....
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Determined, wasn’t he?
Where is Gilman, Washington?
As a native of Renton and onetime resident of Issaquah, I have never heard of a place named Gilman 30 miles east of Seattle.
Sounds like it should be near North Bend ...
Neighborhood in Issaquah, Washington
Thanks for posting the history of the Last Person Conviction and Sentenced for the crime of killing another person in Seattle…….
Aha! It was right about Issaquah:
“MOB LEAVES MAN OUT TO DRYEVENT: SQUABBLE LEADS TO DOWNTOWN LYNCHING
The second stop on our tour takes us near the Julius Boehm Pool on Clark Street.
Long before the site played host to swim meets and pool parties, it hosted a large maple tree and the city’s only recorded hanging, done by a mob of angry citizens in 1889.
There are several different accounts of the execution, each with slight variations, but both tell the story of a feud that led a man to blow up a local building with the hopes of killing his adversary inside. The man who triggered the explosion was arrested, but later, while the sheriff was away, an angry mob seized him and hanged him from the tree.
One newspaper account of the hanging tells the story of a feud that originated in Chicago between two men: Albert Schaeffer and George Bodala.
Bodala fled to Chicago and then moved to the Issaquah area to avoid Schaeffer’s harassment, but Schaeffer followed Bodala and blew up his Issaquah house, killing the entire Bodala family.
The next day, an agitated mob took Schaeffer while the sheriff was at lunch, and demanded Schaeffer confess to the killings. Schaeffer refused, and the mob strung him from the tree for 30 seconds. Again, the angry people demanded a confession, and again he refused, and they responded by stringing him up for 45 seconds.
They demanded a confession one last time, but when Schaeffer again refused, they hanged him until he died.
The other account, from a local man, tells the story of an unnamed man using dynamite to blow up a boarding house — on the site of modern-day Issaquah Middle School — in an attempt to kill his former girlfriend and her new lover inside.
The blast destroyed the building and killed a miner, but not the man’s girlfriend or her lover.
The man stood trial for the crime, but while the sheriff was away having dinner the night of the trial, the mob took the man, stole a clothesline from the boarding house where the sheriff was dining, and used the clothesline to hang the man from the tree.
After the man was dead, the lynch mob did not return the clothesline to its rightful owner, forcing those at the boarding house to find a new way to dry their clothes.”
https://timpfarr.com/uncover-the-dark-side-of-issaquah/
Catch and release didn’t work back then as well. Citizens had enough and used gravity.
Accounts for “Gilman Village” there.
Lynching is not an ececution.
It’s just an ordinary murder.
He didn’t get to blow up anyone else.
If was his lawyer and if he made it to trial, I would accuse someone else of having a beef with the victim. After reading about the threats - just words - made by the defendant, it would have provided excellent cover for the crime.
I guess he was a bad Czech.
People’s justice when the system fails. Expect it to return as the current justice system is subverted by those in power.
Lynched? Who did it? George Zimmerman, Donald Trump, or Derek Chauvin?
Well, here’s hoping you or I don’t end up at the wrong end of a rope, FRiend.
Lynching is not an ececution.
It’s just an ordinary murder.
Lynching is pure democracy in action, it’s why our founding
fathers gave us a constitutional republic...
Wow, a piece of classic journalism, reporting facts and delivering news.
The absence of speculation, bias, innuendo, and personal attacks in a “news article” is refreshing.
De-Anglicized into Issaquah.
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