The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-18
Why Berryman Killed His Wife.

A spectacle the 18th to thesGlobe- Democrat E,sm
spartansburg, S. C., says:
Harry bergman, who killed his wife in t7ss
County Thursday night on account of her inv
macy with another man, was brought here an I
committed to jail. He has made fun confession
He says: ~ killed my wife because was
madly in love with her. We got along well until
mouth ago. when she got contrary because She
liked somebody better than me--Cseorge Hender-
son-who had lived at her mothers before we
were married. l thought they were intimate
put DID not know IL until a month ago. when
Henderson came to our house and made a sign
stretching his eyes at her. On Monday saw
him drop bush in the road In front of the
house. Afterward she went out and laid little
SUCKS near the bush as a signal for a meeting at
night. Henderson came back early
and heard him hawk She went .ut on the
piazza and around the house to meet him. / did
not see them together. but knew in season that
tney did meet In about fifteen minutes / went
out on the piazza, and she came from around the
house. Oar baby was very sick-dying- /
told her God was going TO take il away for her
sins had talked TO her before, and asked her
TO pray for me and would pray for her. but il
got worse ana worse. / told her thought IL was
better for both of us TO be dead than living got
my gun and aimed to go to my mothers pull of
my shoes, work the trigger with my toe,
and kill myself. after i had cut her
throat. She caught the gun, which dis
charged the load, which entered her groin;
| then took the razor and cut her throat, and
then lett the house and went TO my mothers one
mile distant; when / got there tried 70 cut nv
throat with razor cutting IL from ear To the
iaDof WOutu uOt CUT pulleQ out my pocket knife
and tried TO stab myself TO the heart: the blade
struck the nib and glanced off, then tried the
knife on my throat. cutting under the hight jaw;
no one caught me or tried TO keep me from killing
myself; l went out behind the garden and Law
down in the woods, and then tried to cut NV
throat until tainted from loss of blood. After
recovered went back to the house, leaving the
knife and razor in the woods and asked them 70
kill me. ] staid there until Benson Martin ar
rested me and brought me to Jail in a wagon.
DR.. Romeo Hicks. my cousin, sewed up my throat
before left home and said might live If inham-
nation did not set In. ! think 1t has set in and
that will die"
Bergman has been married to his murdered
wife about year and half. He lived in North
Carolina some time where he was married, but il
Is alleged that he treated that lady so badly she
was forced TO leave him and got divorce. He
claims that she was faithless TO him. He seems
to have been crazy with jealousy. Six or eight
years ago It's charged that he attempted to kill
young acquaintance who was paying particular
attention To young lady to whom he was affi-
anced. This seems 10 have been characteristic of
the murderer In fact, this so generally
known, in the section of North Carolina in which
the murderer lived, that the young ladies were
afraid TO permit him TO pay them any attention.