St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-30
CLUDBED TO DEATH.
a minneapolis Boy Of Sixteen
Is Killed in an Iron
Foundry.
BE Is Struck Down With a
Bludgeon for Calling a
Man Names.
Allowed to Lie Senseless on
the Foundry Floor Over
an Hour.
Conflicting Stories as to the
Cause Of the Sad Trag-
edy.

Charles Bergman is locked up in
cell i'll the central police station, Mime
Rpolis The charge of murder hangs
over his head. Over on the East side,
in little house at 119 Fourth street
southeast, lies the dead body of Howard
Nj. Myrick. On his young head is the
mark of a club, the club that took his
life. Charles Bergman killed him. In
and out of the room where the cold
form of the boy lies wanders mis- wild
owed mother, well nigh craZed with
grief. Her little home is now twice des-
olate. Howard was her only child. His
father died several years ago, but he
was left to comfort her. Now he has
gone, too. And he was cut off in his
youth, all through trivial dispute.
Howard Myrick
WAS But Boy
of sixteen. He worked in the shops of
the Herzog-Gillette Manufacturing com
pany as patter nmaker. Charles Berg
man, the murderer, worked there, too.
He is moulder. Young Myrick, like
most boys working among large num-
bers of their elders, was inclined to be
too playful. His playfulness took
the form of casting at his fellow work
man insulting expressions. That was
what started the trouble between him
and Bergman. He called Bergman
names. The sluggish Northern blood of
the latter was aroused. He attempted
to chastise young Myrick. Now the boy
is dead. Bergman says the boy hit him
with brick first.
II was attending to my work. says
Bergman, ''when the boy began to call
me those names. | started for him. He
threw brick and struck me. Then l
picked up piece of wood and struck at
him. Imeant to strike him on the legs.
As struck he stopped down and
Struck Him on the Head.
He fell over and we picked him up
and carried him to his home. Then
went back to work and worked all the
Afternoon. In the evening l went to
his house to see how he was.
thought he was better. That was
all L knew about it until the
otf1cer came for me little after IL
O'Clock tonight. 1t was about O'Clock
this afternoon that it happened. No,
we had had no quarrel until the boy be-
gan to call me Names"
That Is Bergman'S story. 1t does not
tally with the stories told by other peo-
pie. Mrs. Myrick, between sobs, told a
GLOBE reporter that the men let the
wounded, senseless boy lie on the foun-
dry floor an hour and half before they
brought him home. All accounts say
that the boy was struck at
O'Clock, or shortly after.
Mrs. ETyrick Says
he was not brought home till almost
O'Clock. Then Bergman, if stories other
than his be true, did not work the re
mainder of the day after killing the
boy, but left the foundry and went
home. Nor did he go up to
the Myrick home in the evening to in
quire after the boys condition. When
Officer Gonyea went to arrest him he
was i'll bed and showed fight till he saw
a gun. The first place the officer took
him was to the Myrick house.
AS soon as Mrs. Myrick saw him
she rushed to strangle him. Being
large woman, she might have succeed
ed but for the officer. That was the
first she had seen of Bergman, so he
did not go there. Here is the most i'm
portant disagreement. Bergman says
he struck the boy with stick. Be-
yond a slight mark on the head the
boy does not show punishment inli cted
by a stick, but his throat bears
the imprint of muscular fingers, and his
body is
Covered with Bruises
and Commissions. Just before the boy
died he recovered sufficiently to say
that Bergman had choked and
kicked him to death. His
body gives evidence corroboratiye of
his words. He seems to have died from
internal injuries. The boot that Der g.
man wore has been found. 1t is torn,
and bears the appearance of hav-
ing been used for kicking. Only
few of the men who
worked with Bergman could
be found last night. He claimed to not
know where any Of them lived. Most
of the evidence of Bergman's untruth-
fulness comes from Mrs. Myrick and
the boys body. Bergman is a
Swede, is a married man, and
lived with his wife and child
at 2fS Second street northeast. An in
quest will be held to-day. 1t cannot be
learned whether the boy had any med
ical attendance before he died, although
it is thought that one doctor was called.
Who he was cannot be learned Berg
man says that he has worked under his
present foreman, Theodore Neubert,
four years in Louisville and Chicago be-
fore coming to Minneapolis. He has been
in Minneapolis with the Herzog-Gil-
lette company nearly year. Bergman
says the stick he threw at the boy was
A tsGate stick,
not over foot long and soft white
wood. He maintains that he cid moi
kick or strike the boy. Theodore Neu-
bert, the foreman, was found
at T23 Third sheet southeast early
this morning.. He saw the whole &C.
currerce III the main his story cor
roborates Bergman is. relating
to the quarrel. tho throwing of the brick
ana The stick. The boy recovered
consciousness, Neibert says, few min.
utes after being struck and claimed that
he was all right, telling Neubert thai
the quarrel VAS all his own fault,
Then jls swoonsd and was taken
home. With the exception Of few
inmates lie was Unconscious from Then
uati a few nlirotts before he