Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-07-25

An Apprentice Printer in JOhr
MOst's Office In 1891.

MOst's Office ia 1891.
NEW YORK, July 24.-0f the three
names given by the man who shot MIR.
Frick, Alexander Bergman. the name he
gave to the police, was recognized at
once by anarchists in New York, and
the description telegraphcd Of the prls-
oner fitted the man. Berkman is an an
archist of the widest sort. He is Il Rus
sian Hebrew and was disciple of JOS
eph Peukert of Vienna, who has posed as
a rabid Anarchist for many years in dit
ferent parts of the world.
Bergman is now about 30 years old
and came to this country from Wilma,
Russia, about six years ago. He at
tended the college in wilma for short
time, but was dismissed on account OF
his revolutionary tendencies. When he
came to this country first he obtained
employment in jersey factory i'll Greene
street, bnt did not agree with his fellow
workers, and later on obtained work IN
shirt factory.
He gave this up, and, after wandering
around the country, entered the Office OF
the Freiheif, John Most's paper, at 167
William street as an apprentice to the
printing trade. This was in April, 1891.
Most was sent to Blackwell's Island
about that time, and Bergman soon
made himself very troublesome, His
anarchy was of so radical a character
that even John Most foreman could not
stand it.
He talked in a rampant style and de-
clared that John Most was behind the
age in his ideas, and roundly abused his
doctrines.
/ The foreman, after trying him for a
while, dismissed him on July 4, 1891
before Bergman had learned more thar
the rudiments of the art of sticking type
Bergman belongs to the individualist
stripe anarchists, while Most is a com
munist.
After he left the Frcihcit, Bcrgmer
went to Elizabeth, N. j.. and obtained
emplyment in the Singer Sewing machine
factory. Then he went to a printing
office in New Haven. While there HI
often visited New York, carrying unde
his arm at all times budget of anar
clistic literature. He wrote letters tt
the Hebrew anarchist papers there abus
ing Most and advocating his own doc
trines. Anarchists here say that he wa
never connected with any of the anar
chist groups here, but while he was il
Elizabeth it was stated that he was
member of the Peukert group of ana1
chists there.
} Berkman was known at number I
resorts where Russian anarchists nee
in Division street, near Canal and it
immediate ncighborhood.-New Yor
Sun.
A more repulsiye face than bergman
has seldom been added to the Rogue
gallery. The forehead is narrow an
receding, the head almost cone shnpet
the complexion pasty and the chin shar
and protruding. The lips arc large an
thick almost to the verge of deformit
and OF the redness of raw bcef.-Nc'
York Herald.
WHEELING, July 23.-A sensation;
Q chapter is added to the Frick tragedy /
: the receipt of a startling letter in tn
city this evening.
ri Robert Alexander, a Pittsburg frcsco'
, working here, tonight received a lett
from his sweetheart, who is employed {
a domestic in the Frick household, sta
E ing that within the last four days an a
d" tempt had been made to poison the e
tire Frick houeehold. Mrs. Frick ar
!. her infant son were made dangerous
" i'll, and the wife of Frick's coachman
in dying condition.