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1889: Alfred Schaeffer, diabolical dynamiter, lynched near Seattle
ExecutedToday.com ^ | 7 January, 2013 | Headsman

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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To: Uncle Miltie

It’s issaquah.


21 posted on 01/07/2024 11:43:48 AM PST by zek157 ( )
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To: BenLurkin

“It’s just an ordinary murder.”

If the perp had done the same in any other culture would the result have been different?

It wasn’t murder. It was justice.

Civil law predates public law.


22 posted on 01/07/2024 1:16:20 PM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Justa

Well if a type of law that is, it certainly has an attenuated concern for due process.


23 posted on 01/07/2024 1:33:57 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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