The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-20
VICTIMS Of The GIBBET.
Bambsrger, the North Dakota Fiend,
Strangled TO Death for His
Grimes.
A Bad Man From kentucky Is
Hanged in Missouri for
Murder.
N id Taken Poison, so the Exercises Were
Hurrted Tn Little Illinois
N I'd Taken Poison. 80 the Exercises Were
Hurrisd Up Little - Illinois
Repressntoi.

CANDo N. d.. Jan. 19.-Albert BAN
berger. the brutal murderer. In july last. OF
his uncle. Daniel :. Kreidsr. his aunt and
four young cousins. was hanged here this
afternoon. He Was employed by Kreider
on a farm and conceived an unholy passion
for his iiftesn-year-old cousin. Annie who
reiscted his advances. and threatened to
inform her fsther. Early on the morning
OF July he went to his uncls's room and
shot him 10 death. He then went to the
kitchen aud killed his aunt while she was
getting breakfast Annie was locked up In
bis own room. He next killed BsrRics.
aged l3. Merley II. Mary niue. and David
seven yehTs old. In answer TO Annis's sup
plicaiions he spared the three younger boys.
He then, with the utmost cooiuess. com
PEELED Annie 10 get breakfast with ths body
Of he's mother lying on the kitchen floor.
ate his breakfast and took the girl 10 his
room and then 30 the barn, outraginR her
repeatedly. lie tied her fast. locked her in
the barn. took a horse. and made for the
Manitoba border, but was captured. Only
by the utmost vigilance on the part OF the
authorities was he saved from lynchinR.
The execution took place in the valley. a
mile south OF town. and fully 1000 people
from the surrounding country gathered on
the surrounding hills as early as sunrise to
witness IT, Bambsrgsr spent the night
playing cards with the guards. He ate a
hearty breakfast this morning and showed
little signs OF excitement as the hour for
his execution approached. lie refused to
see q clergyman.
Hamburger calmly bade farewell 20 his
friends, ascended the acaffold and again
refused to hsaT a clergyman. His last
words were; Il am sorry for my crime aud
hope no one will follow In my footsteps"
Lebanon. No, Jan. 19-Wiis Howard
was hanged here to-day for the murder OF
deaf mute named Morris MoMiohael in
Msries county in 1889. Howard was a Ken
tuckian aud was a. ons timo m.x a up in
one of the bloodiest vsndettss known in
that state. MoMieha0l WAS stopping with
deaf mute friend. Howard, ieI resentin Q
himself ~ a detective, went TO the house
took AoMichasl into the woods. killed and
robbed him of $50 and He'd. He was
tracked to the Pacific coast and found in
the California penitentihry. When his
term expired he was ought back. con-
victed and to-day hanged.
just before the execution Howard con-
fossed that he had taken poison. A physi-
eian examined him and found him suffe -
ing from morphine poisoning, bnt not Sc
Vorely enough 20 osuse death. The details
OF the execution we're therefore hurried.
Early this morning he was baptizs I'd by a
Methodist Episcopal minister and on the
scadold said: Friends one and all. we
shall meet 10 heaven"
JoLrEr. Jan. 19.-EaTnest Laoofe, a farm
hand. was hanged hoTe day for murder
ing 12.JoGr old Mary Ellen by on. whom
he wsylaid in the woods and attsmptsd to
seduce.