St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-20
BOMBERGER is DEAD.
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page.
of one barrel into his unsuspecting VIC
tim.
Mrs. Kreider, who was in the kitchen
preparing the morning meal, was the
next to die at his hands. Up the stairs
while passion held sway he started, and
relentlessly shot Mercy, an eleven-year-
old girl. Mary. aged nine, and David,
seven yeats old, came next on the death
role. Thus far five had fallen by the
murderer'S hand. A thirteen -year-old
girl named Bernice had jumped from
the window and fled to the barn while
the death-deallng fiend was at his work.
B0mberger, following her, started to
put an end to the innocent life, but she
begged so piteously TO be allowed to see
her father and mother, brothers ana
sisters again that he took her to the
house.
After allowing her this last privilege
he raised the gun, and, while the poor
little child cr0uched in the corner with
her hands shielding her face, he dellD-
erately shot her dead.
AT this juncture he noticed that
Mary, the second child he had shot, was
dot yet dead, and seizing a butcher
knife he finished the job by cutting her
throat. The other children, including
Annie, he bad ordered into his room
until he could complete his awful work.
BE now entered the room and assaulted
Annie. Then proceeding TO the barn
he ordered her to follow. There after
assaulting the terrified girl again he
commanded her to go to the house and
get breakfast for him in the room where
her mother lay mangled, bleeding and
dead. But his appetite failed. him and
he ordered her to put up lunch for
him, which she did. Again ordering
her to the barn he took her into the loft
and bound her, as he thought, securely,
and mounting the pony started away.
lie headed his horse for The Canadian
line. Two after he bid Annie Kreider
goodbye prisoner at her deSolate
home, he WAS captured without resist
ance by Sheriff McCune, of Cando.
BY this time the Cando people, who
had been alarmed by Annie (who had
been let free by the help of the other
surviving children), had started i'll pur-
suit as mob. Sheriff McCune succeed
ed in Guiding them at Cando. and pass
ing on to DEVILS Lake, Bomberger was
incarcerated in the jail at that place,
but as excited crowds began to gather
and threatening demonstrations were
made, the prisoner was removed to the
jail at Grand Forks, and placed In
Sheriff Fadden's care. Word was sent
Sheriff Fadden one evening that dele
CATION from CaEdo were on the way to
the city with the avowed Intention Of
getting the prisoner. Rather than
swear in an airy of deputies to guard the
jail and run the risk of more blood being
spilled, the sheriff accepted the more
reasonable alternative, and removed
Bomberger to Fargo, going by way of
Winnipeg junction. The alleged mob
proved to be but a delegation of nine
teen Of The law-abiding citizens and
prominent business men of ToWner
county. The sheriff returned the next
evening with his prisoner, and landed
him once more behind the bars in the
Grand Forks comfy jail.
When Bomberger was arraigned for
trial, he pleaded guilty, and was sell
fenced to be hanged Jan. 10. 1894. He.
made full confession of his horrible
crime.