Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-09

the Mother Bids Her Son to Shoot and
He Dutifully Obeys-What the Prisoners
Have to say-They Manifest No Anxiety
Over the Situation.
Sheriff Nugent, of Buffalo, Wright county,
lodged murderer in Ramsey county Jail,
yesterday morning. The murderer is Carl
Sieg, lad ID years old. His victim was
William Bruckman, aged 80. The murder
was committed in Albion town, near Howard
lake, in Wright county, on the 9th inst,
Saturday about o'clock A. NJ.
THE STORY OF THE TRAGEDY.
From Sheriff Nugent the particulars of the
affair were learned as follows:
For some time the farmers families in the
nelghborhood of Howard Lake have diversi-
fed work with the excitement Of scandal.
ms was confined to the women folk first,
but finally was waited into the fields and en-
yeloped the men. Mrss Sieg, the mother of
Carl, is alleged to have given word to
much of this scandal Or gossip, and made
it uncomfortably warm for some of her
neighbors. The Bruckman family partic-
ulary met with frequent mention from her.
This came with the-tnree- black-crow growth
to the Bruckman's, and greatly incensed
them.
Saturday morning VIM. Brakeman, aged
twenty-three, Robert Bruckman, aged fifteen,
and Robert Wolf, aged fifteen, went over to
sleg's place to apply remedy, if necessary,
to prevent Mrs. Sieg from the too free use
of her tongue. Sieg, the man of the house,
was absent. The three youths approached
the log cabin, in which the Siegs reside,
through field. Mrs. Sieg saw them, and
rushed out to meet them more than half
way. She ordered them off her
premises. The refused to go, and charged
her with attacking their characters. An
alteration followed, in which both parties
INDUCED In high works, and even blows
were given and received. In the midst of
the row, Mrs. Sieg called to her son Carl,
standing near the house, an observer of
the difficulty. He answered to his
mothers call and rushed into
the house and then came to her side armed
with double-barrel shot gun. More angry
words were spoken. The mother spoke to
her son. He raised the gun and fired twice.
William Bruckman was the target of his
craftsmanship, receiving one charge of shot
IN the left arm and head, and the other in
his right breast
fruckman was dragged away by his
brother and youthful companion. Mother
and son, victorious, retired to their house.
The alarm was quickly given to the neigh
bors, and several repaired to the Sleg place
and arrested the boy. Bruckman, the father,
took the lad in charge, conveyed him to
Buffalo and gave him into the custody of
Sheriff Nugent. Mrs. Sieg was left at home.
Young Brakeman, the wounded man, in the
meanwhile had been taken home, where, lin
gering in agony until Monday at 7 o'clock
A. NJ, he died. Sheriff Nugent, hearing of
his death, arrested Mrs. Sieg.
Mother and son were brought to this CITY
for safety, until their examination, which
takes place on Thursday.
THE MOTHERS STORY.
A GLOBE reporter gained admission to the
Jail and was brought into the presence of
Carl Sieg and his mother, Anne Sieg.
Neither speak English, or at least only few
words. lie is brightfaced boy, with good
eyes, dark hair, and complexion NATURALLY
dark, very much bronzed by outdoor work.
She is a comely- looking German woman
OF the laboring class, blue ewes.
light hair, and with face marked with
signs of exposure and scanned with the life
of labor she has led. She is apparently 80
to 35 years old.
They were seated together in the upstairs
corridor of the Jail, conversing seemingly
with cheerfulness. Both were reluctant to
speak of the tragical affair in which thew
figured as principal actors. The mother
charged her son to keep silent. What talk
Ing was to be done, she'd do. Through
Tailor Spiel as interpreter, her story was
told by piecemeal.
She mad deem abusad by the folks in the
nelghborhood. The Buckmans had abused
her. Saturday when the boys came to her
house, the old man was away. The bows
came through her field, tramping down the
grain, and tore up the fence. She ran out
and ordered them away. Then they abused
her and struck her.
civilian Bruckman struck me with q
club" said she, "and then called for Carl"
"Did you order him to shoot Bruckman,"
was asked in circumlocutionary way bv
means of the interpreter.
"Bruckman was beating me,'' she replied,
And this was all that could be
gotten out of her after repeated
trials. She speaks without excitement of
the affair, and betrays no uneasiness. She
and her son sit together, and talk uncon-
cernedly.
The boy was questioned, but his mother
answered for him. She would not acknowl-
edge that she ordered him to shoot: but
repeatedly averred that Buchanan was beat
ing her. 1t was impossible to learn from her
the cause of the Buchanan Wolf attack upon
her, or any particulars which led to the
tragedy.
"The folks talked" she exclaimed, 81 and
was blamed,'' was about the sum and
substance of what could be ELECTED.
The neighborhood where the murder hap
pered is settled by Germans. They form a
colony among themselves, and are given to
speaking little or no English. The Siees
came direct from West Prussia to tho local
ity ten years ago. They have an sO-acre
farm, forty of which is under cultivation.
Both son and mother wear the appearance of
hard working, industrious people.
A melancholy feature of the whole affair
Is that the mother has in Jail with her, an
infant, three weeks old.
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Alexander
MIR. II. II. Gross, the celebrated animal
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substantial, tasty and conveniently arranged
buildings, and the perfect system character
lzlng the management, filled him with sur
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