Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-27
DEVOTED TO ANARCHY.
Bergman and His Svveethea A utOnO-
mists Since Childhood.

DEVOTED TO ANARCHY.
Bergman and His Sweetheart Autono-
mists Since Childhood.
Of Bergman, the assassin, and his wife,
Emma Goldman, for such she proves to
be, who resided in this city for number
of months, as has been stated in our |
columns. the New York Recorder of yester-
day says, in giving their history as wild |
eyed anarchists, as follows:
From childhood, according to revelations
made yesterday, Alexander Bergman, the
would-be murderer of Henry G. Frick In
Pittsburg, and his wife, better known as
Emma Goldman, have devoted their lives
to anarchy.
AS little children in their home in far
away Russia they were playmates. Then
they became lovers, then enthusiasts in
the cause of liberty" that liberty which
knows no restraint, legal or moral. Their
parents were willing they should marry,
but they made their love for each other
second to their love to "the cause"
Standing together in their childhood's
| home, they vowed eternal friendship and
eternal devotion to the cause of anarchy,
| or, as they called it, Freedom" Then
they separated to meet years later in New
York. Their friendship was unbroken.
They worked and lived together again.
| Years later they were married, he as
Stunning the name of Brown then, after
cnild mad been born. Yet the woman was
known as Goldman. She and Bergman
lived as man and wife, but their legal mar
rage was kept secret. 1t is only re-
vealed to-day, when Bergman Is IN jail,
| Id bo bnif nd v,ia.
| toll with which he had attempted murder
in his hands, and his wife is in hiding
from the police, who believe her to be an
accessory, if not an actual accomplish.
II live right down here at 2O2," re-
marked Emma Goldman to Fritz Fuhse,
ciRarmaker of $40 East 91st street, while
they were passing through Forsyth street
after an anarchist meeting about year
ago. This remark gave clue which, fol-
lowed up, discloses full year of the hid
den life of the woman and of Bergman.
The latter's identity was hidden under the
alias of Alexander Brown. Emma did
live at 2O2. She lived under her own
name. Mrs. Knauf, the housekeeper,
now at 214 Christie street, remembers her
we'll.
"She came with a young man. whom
she said she was to marry" said Mrs.
Kuauf yesterday. "He went under the
name of Alexander Brown. They came in
January, 1891, and stayed until last Feb
ruary. Brown answered the description
of Bergman. Yes, that is his picture, and
a good one, too" she added, when the Re-
corder reporter showed her a picture of
Bergman,
had two rooms on the third floor. Two
women, who were friends of Emma Gold
man, also had rooms there. Emma bought
goods on the installment plan, and Brown
} paid the bills.
early last February child was born
to Emma. It was given to the midwife
and died in few days. A rabbi visited
the couple several times, and about the
middle of February they left my house
They were married in Harmony hall, in
, Rivington street, between Essex and Nor
folk, the day they left my house. dom
know what became of them"
: 1t was after this marriage that Berkmar
and the woman went to New Haven tx
live, as already told in the Recorder. They
returned but a few weeks ago.
4 Emma preceded Bergman to America
| Her parents live now in Rochester and ar
/. said to be respectable people. She was
. | rabid anarchist. Bergman told FRIEND
that he had been sent to school in Kovno
| Russia, and had raised a revolt among tn
| pupils Then he fed to America. H
came here in 1886 and soon found Emma
;. She was decidedly friendly with John Mos
q then, but forsook him for her first lover
i and in 1888 Bergman and his friend Aron
stamm had rooms at al East Broadway
. and Emma kept house for them.
They had three small rooms, and the fur
. | niture was made up of q marvellous pot
y | pouri of relics. No one was allowed il
the place except those who were known t.
~ be in the elmer CIRCLE" for there wer
things strewn about the place that migt
give rise to suspicion, and injure thei
f citizenship.
# 1t was here that Louis Stroll of SO Henri
8 street visited him and learned of his ramp
. ant anarchistic tendencies.
Stroll knew both Bergman and the gil
g in Russia, and he is the authority for thei
It early history.
, After this the woman seems to have gon
is back to Most, though, as stated above, sh
t. went to live with Bergman, or Brown, i
IA January, 1891, became his wife a year late
W and has been his constant companio
h since. Small wonder then that, when Bert
ID man undertook this mission, his first Low
decided to 90 with him. Those who pre-
fess to know say she is in Pittsburg nov
harbored by "group" of twenty-fv
70 rampant anarchists, who are assisting j
the collection of funds for Bergman's d.
tense. They will try to prove him insan
~ The anarchists of this city openly vo
y: that Bergman's work will yet be complete
and extol him as hero. But they al
o; afraid of the police. Justus Schwab h.
~ torn down the red flags and fiery motto'
~ in his saloon, and Johann Most cannot
a. found. Scwa5 says he doesn't know whel
80 Emma Goldman is. but when reportt
81 routed him out Sunday there was haxel
=; haired woman sitting at the rear end
~ his saloon who answered her description;
i. - She appeared Saturday night just lo1
- enough to add her praises to those of He
~ Most for the young anarchists Drawer
IN Only one man claims to have seen her sine
He is Frederick Ssrrichs, who lives over
bakery in Division street.
~ He told Recorder reporter yesterdt
that Miss Goldman was SO worked up by Il
IN act of Bergman that she would willing
o. have taken his place in the cell and becon
martyr to the cause, if such thing we
ha possible. She says that all is not over ye
and while she does not openly VOW to cor
en- plete the work that Bergman begun, 81
lis very forcibly insinuates that there are OF
I'M ers who will do it, and that before long.
When asked if Miss Goldman was in hi
- ing he said that friends more cautio
* than she persuaded her to keep away fro
public gatherings and out of pu
lat lie places, and thus avoid arres
49, Even if she was not directly CO
cerneQ IN Inc plOI, Inc pOllco have redS(
'e- to believe that she was fully aware
ur Bergmans intention when he left Ne
Mt York ten days ago. They also have reast
or to believe that shat she know the wher
" abouts of modest Aronstamm, who is SD
We posed to have been with the would
A assassin up to the time when he entert
49, Tricks Office.
II! Emma Goldman was expelled from Il
no Pioneers of Liberty in 1890, when Il
K society met at Sc Orchard street in hs
owned by Joseph HIDES, who now has
or saloon at 213 Suffolk strest. She was a
OF terward, it is said, reinstated.
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40 lions.
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