Fred
Schraffenberger
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 19 September 1882, page 2
Yesterday morning a difficulty took place at Michael Schraffenberger's saloon, on Front street, Newport, between Fred, a son of the proprietor and Jack Renshaw and Alfred Worthington, about an unpaid board bill owned by the last named party.
Schraffenberger, with a baseball bat, dealt Worthington a murderous blow over the right temple, felling him to the floor like an ox and making a gash in his head about six inches in length. The injured man was picked up and carried to the lot adjoining Moore, Harkness & Bayliss stove foundry. A Gazette reporter sent for Dr. R A Dameron and Dr. J H Barker, where they went at once to work to alleviate the man's sufferings. Dr. Dameron stated the injury was a serious one but could no ascertain as yet whether or not the man's skull was fractured.
The man was taken to St Elizabeth Hospital in Covington. Fred Schraffenberger, left the barroom and was found at John Gugel's bakery on Monmouth street, above Ringgold by Officer Fred Miller, who placed him under arrest and lodged him in the station house, charged with striking and wounding with intent to kill, to await an examination of the facts of the case by the Grand Jury, which is now in session.