The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-20
BON CRIME.
He Killed Six of the kreider Fan
Near Cando, n. ID.

He Killed Six of the kreider Family.
Near Cando, n. ID.
The crime for which Bomberger was
lexrcuted was the murder of Daniel 5.
Nreiler, his wife and four children. The
crime was committed ut daylight on the
morning of July : last. The murdered
family We're at one time residents of
Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, where
t"ur brothers of the murdered man still
re~ldr. Bomberger Is also u native of
the same county. and his father lives on
Lehman street, III til" City OF Lebanon.
Early Oh the mnr.ling of the day named.
III" community WAS ho*rltl~d by the
arrival OF it'll .Aanie krcidcr. who. half
dressed and almost frantic. had walked
III rom the farm. about two miles
distant.
Between >hriek~ AMI Cries
she told the residents who were a>tir
that her fathers family had been butch
cred by the hired man. Citizens who
hurried to the homestead found an
awful spectacle of wholesale butchery.
the father lying in his bed, the mother
III the kitchen, where she had been pre-
pairing breakfast, the three girls. aged
respectively ID, II and ., and one 7-year-
old boy, lying stiff and stark where
they had fallen from wounds inflicted
by a double-barreled shotgun in the
hands of Bomberger. The latter. who
was a nephew of Dan kreider, had been
employed ON the farm as a general util-
ity man for about nine months. The
murdered children were Bennice, aged
Is; Merly, aged II; Mary. aged ., and
David aged, aged I: four other children,
the eldest being Annie, aged Is. were
spared by the murderer. From their
stories it was developed that ON the day
prior to the tragedy Bomberger had ~
dispute with his uncle over a trihing
matter, and during which the two men
nearly came to blows. Mrs. Kreider,
however, interfered, and it was sup
posed that the trouble was amicably ad-
justed. Just about daylight on the fol-
lowing day, however, Bomberger went
into the room where his uncle was sleep
ing, and fairly
Perforated Him with Bullets.
He then ven down to the kitchen and
shot Mrs. Kreider, who was preparing
breakfast. Annie, who slept upstairs,
heard the shots, and upon getting up
met the murderer on the stairs. He
drove her back to his own room and
locked her in, and then went into the
ehildren's room and began killing them.
Bernice jumped out of a window, but
the fiend went after her. brought
her back and shot her through
the head. By piteous appeals
and s~upplicatiOns Annie induced
the butcher to spare her life and also to
spare her three remaining little brothers.
At the muzzle Of his gun he compelled
her tc prepare his breakfast with the
corpse of her mother lying at her feet.
, He leisurely ate the meal, then GRIMM
ally assaulted her, tied her hand and
foot, locked her in the barn, saddled her
favorite pony and rode away to the
northward. With the aid of one of her
brothers, the girl succeeded in freeing
herself and made her way to town, leav-
ing the little ones
Alone with the Dead.
AS Dol as the alarm had been given
score of citizens started in pursuit.
Sheriff McCune and a posse followed in
the same direction half an hour later.
The murderer was making for the Tur-
tie mountains. At the same time q
mass meeting of citizens in the market
place offered a reward of 500 for the
capture of the murderer. Bomberrer.
however, managed to make his way to
Deloraine, Manitoba. 80 miles from
Cando, where he was captured late On
Saturday night. He was taken i'm
charge by Sheriff McCune just in time
70 avoid his being lynched by q party Of
% determined men, who went from here
for that purpose. On = trio af $50 wiis.