St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09

by no friend but a, married man. Her
death took place about l o'clock last
Friday morning at the Globe hotel
on Sixth street. She arrived there
on the evening of June II, in COM
pany with a man who registered
&C. Richards and wife, city"
The man stated that his wife was
suffering severely from an injury re-
Gently received. In the presence of
the hotel employees Clara insisted
that a doctor be called, and a West
side physician was sent for. For
two days her condition kept grow
ing worse. The first physician did
not return, but two other well-known
local practitioners We're present
when, on June 10, a. child was born
SHE DID NOT RALLY - 81.
afterwards. Meanwhile the pretend
ed husband was most attentive.
Night and day he remained by her
bedside. Yet he was unwilling to
tell anything of himself and wife,
and whenever any of the hotel serv-
ants entered his room he would
nervously hasten to cover up his
wife's face, evidently fearing that
she might be recognized.
For more than two weeks longer
the. young woman's sufferings con-
tinued. 1t began to be rumored
about the hotel that her condition
was very serious, and intimations
were given to the husband that his
Wife's relatives, or at least some of
her female friends, ought to be sent
for. But he steadily refused to al
low any one except himself or the
physicians to even approach her bed
side. On the evening of July a
fourth physician, DR.. G. H. Glidden,
was called in. He at once saw that
the emaciated, delirious woman was
suffering from the most virulent
blood poisoning, and that she was
on the verge of death. At 1 o'clock
the next morning the patient
breathed her last. The so-called hus-
band then admitted that the dead
girl was not his wife, but Clara
Bergh, a dressmaker who had re-
sided with her mother at the corner
of Thirteenth and L'Orient streets.
We've got your daughters body
down at our undertaking roomsr was
the startling manner in which the first
news of her missing childs where
abouts was announced last Saturday
morning to Mrs. Mary Bergh, the
poor, old, sightless mother Mrs. Bergh
is about seventy years old, and for the
past seven years she has been totally
blind. Her husband, Olaf Bergh, dis
appeared when Clara was a babe of
six weeks. Since then Mrs. Bergh has
been cared for by her children. The
eldest of these is Oscar, aged thirty
who was formerly foreman for the
Smith & Farwell company; Clara was
the next child, while third is Lily,
the wife of George S. Walton, a mason,
living at the end of L'Orient street.
Clara has resided in this city since her
childhood. She was an expert dress
maker, and was long
HER MOTHERS DEPENDENCE.
Last winter the mother and her two
daughters lived at 533 L'Orient street
In the same house We're a couple of
young ladies named Johnson. One of
these Misses Johnson and Clara her
self then received marked attentions
partners of a local firm of money-lend-
ers. The firm not only lends money,
! usually in small amounts and on short
| time, but also rents houses. The
| senior partner was married, and his
| partner, the devoted friend of Miss
Bergh, was single. Several times with
| in the past two years Clara has visited
at Martel, Wis, where she became in
timately acquainted with certain
| physician, said to belong there. He
| treated her for various ailments, and
he has sent her prescriptions by mail.
Clara had been, with her mother, an
| attendant of the Norwegian Evangeli-
cal Lutheran church, corner of Thir-
| teenth and Canada streets. Her char
acter was considered irreproachable
On the morning of June II she said she
was going over to West st. Paul to do
some dressmaking, and she left the
house at a. m. 1t is presumed that
she had made some arrangement with
the Wisconsin doctor to meet her in
that state. At any rate she travelled
that day, not to Martel, but as far as
| Baldwin. The same evening she ap-
| peared at the Globe hotel in company
with the friend and partner of her adj
mirer. The latter did not come to her
! during her sufferings, but relied upon
! his friend to keep concealed, if posi-