California Newspaper Transcriptions
Crimes and Criminals (pre 1924)
FRED SCHINDLER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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FRED SCHINDLER

            One of the most cruel murders in the criminal annals of Marysville 
was that committed at an early morning hour on October 23, 1882, at the Jacob 
Schimp dairy in the eastern portion of the city.  Between Matthias Blumer and 
Fred Schindler, milkers in the employ of Jacob Schimp, a hatred had grown up, 
occasioned by jealousy over a woman.  Blumer picked a quarrel with Schindler 
and, when the latter defended himself, beat him to death with a hammer.  He hid 
the body first in a manger, and then buried it under the floor of the barn.  
That night he loaded the body into a wagon and threw it into Simmerly Slough, 
east of the City Cemetery.  A Chinese fisherman pulled the body to the surface, 
and the arrest of Blumer followed.  He claimed he acted in self-defense when 
Schindler, a younger man, attacked him with a pitchfork.  Blumer was convicted 
and sent to San Quentin, but escaped and was free a long time before he was 
discovered in an Eastern State and returned to the penitentiary.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles