Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-20
A WOMAN FIEND.
Damaging Evidence Against
Mrs. Bamberger, St. Louis.
Nurses Swear that She Caused Several
Deaths in Recent Years.
Ia One Csc Swear that She Calmly Dio"hto
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ST. Louis. Nov. 19.-Five indictments
were found against Mrs. henrietta
Bamberger. Saturday by the grand
Jury. one charges murder in the first
degree. three charga manslaughter IN
The first d, gree and one in the sec"ld
degree She is i. midwife. living At 9lg
Choteau avenue.
The witnesses whose testimony re-
suited in the arrest. are Lizzie Rieger,
Mary Haar and the latter's married
sister, all of whom have been in Mrs.
Rambcrger's employ as nurses.
one witness alleges that the body OF
Lyda Dessert Of 2ll3 Madison street,
who disappeared from home in 1891
was buried in the cellar in September
of that year. Another declares that
the body Of Miss Annie Zimmerman ot
Moline. H.. was thrown into the river
Lizzie Rieger and another witness. in
giving testimony before the grand jury
yesterday. said they had seen Mrs.
Bamberger murder baby in 1893.
They declare Jhat Mrs Bamberger
tossed the infant into Il tub OF water
and then grasping it by the neck.
choked and held it under In water
several minutes She then took the
tiny form, wrapped il in a newspaper,
saturated the paper with Kerosene and
placed the bundle in the fire in tn
kitchen range.
Lydia Rressert. according t. the
story. went t. Mrs. Hamburger for
treatment in September. 1891. The
nurses declare that the girls ailment
did not necesSitate an operation. that
she was lab0ring under an hallucina-
ton. However. an operation was per
formed. Mrs Bamberger locked her
in one Of the rooms to smother her
cries. that they might not l. heard
from the street The nurse was at
Lydia's side when the latter died. The
nurse declared that Mrs Hamburger
tied the girls arms across her breast
with towel and sWore like 4 fiend
because. rs she said. she would have
10 pay him another $50 to get rid Of
that one. The nurses We're sent away
from the house and told to remain two
days. When they returned. Mrs Bam-
berger did not tell them what had be
come of the body. except to say eXult-
antly that it was taken away.
Mary Holt Camp Of Mexico, Mo. the
witness said died from an operation
some time early in November. 1896
The nurses declare that the girl asked
Mrs. Hamburger to notify her parents
at Mexico should she die. Mrs. Bam-
berger did not do so. She secured n
burial permit giving the name as Mol
lie Jackson. DIR. Noisin signed the APP
plication for the certificate. which stat
ed that the cause Of death was peri
tonitIS, due to exposure.
Annie s. Zimmerman Of Marine III
became patient at the Bamberger
house in October. 1895. She complain
ed bitterly of the brutal treatment of
Mrs. Hamburger while she was i'll. Ar
operation was performed and the girl
later died. The nurses declare that
Mrs. Bamberger doubled up the corpse
placed in a trunk and had it carted t
the Merimec river. Mrs. Hamburger
they aver, unlocked the trunk lifted
the body out alone and heaved il over
the bridge into the water below. Later
the nurses learned what was done with
the body. The information came
through the publication in the daily
papers about finding the body of a CIR
on the bank of the river near LuZem-
burg, st. Louis county The description
Tailed with the Zimmerman girl