Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-23
MISS MARY HOLTKAMp.
Said to Have Been Killed by a Midwife
in St. Louis-She disappeared in
1895 From Mexico-An Arrest
Likely to be Made Here.

Mrs. BambeTger, q st. Louis mid
wife, is under arrest and accused Of
numbering three or four women and
q large number ofinfants. Among her
victims Is said to be Miss Mary Holt
kamp, q daughter OF Joe HoItkamp, a
farmer, who lives near Worcester,
thin county. The 81. Louis Republic,
referring to this death, says:
"Mary Holtkamp, Of Mexico, Mo-,
went to Mrs. B~amberger's house In
February, 1895. She died also after
an operation, and the body was bur
led in the old Picker Cemetery, under
the name of Mollie Jackson, on Feb
ruary 10. We have q record Of the
burial permit and the number OF the
lot and grave. The body was placed
In a CONN at night and conveyed to
the rooms Of an undertaken, q short
distance away. The funeral was held
from there next day., a physician on
South Broadway furnishing a burial
certificate, which allayed suspicion.
The undertaken and physician were
well paid for their work.
The st. Louis StGf sage: Mary Holt
kamp, Of Mexico, NO., died from an
operation sometime early In Novem-
Der, 1896, as tear as the nurses q
remember. They declare that the girl
went to the house under her own
name and that she asked Mrs. Bam-
berger to notify her parents at Next
co should she die. Mrs. Bamberger
did nothing of the kind.
Mrs. Bamberger secured a burial
permit, giving the name as Mollie
Jackson. DR.. Voison, of 1401 South
broadway, signed the application for
the certificate, which stated that the
cause of death was ~peritonitis, due to
exposure.
The arm Of b. O. Meyer Il Co., e05
Ohouteau avenue, furnished the coffin.
The body was carried through the
alley from the Bamberger house to
the undertaker's rooms after night.
The body remained during the night.
Next day 1t was buried in the Holy
Ghost or Pickett's Cemetery on
Gravois road, just outside the city
limits. One carriage followed the
hearse to the grave. The sole mourn
er was a man. The books of the UNI
dertaker show that the bill for the
funeral was paid by q person listed as
Jackson" The burial certificate Ia
numbered 1888 and was Issued Nov. 10,
1895.
Since the crimes in the Ohouteau
avenue house have been unearthed 1t
lie considered remarkable that there
was not an investigation by the au-
thorities OF the death of "Mollie
Jackson" at the house Of q midwife
who had already been fined for mall
practice.
kilograms to the Post Dispatch re-
ceived last night state that Mary Holt
kamp disappeared from homo In 1896.
Her father declares his belief that she
was killed by q St. Louis midwife. The
dispatches describe her almost ident-
ically as Lizzie Rieger described her
TO the Grand Jury.
When Miss Holtkamp left Mexico It
was understood that she went to Kan
sas City to visit friends. We UNDER
stand now that the proper authorities
are investigating the matter here in
Mexico, and have their eye on q GER
tain young man, who is supposed TO
have had something to do with Miss
Hoitkamp going to ST. Louis to nnder-
60 an operation. The young man
suspicioned, 80 we understand 1t, 10
married now, but in 1896 was q single
man.
The Post ptsputch, referring to this
young lady's death, says:
Mary HoItkamp, daughter Of Joseph
Holtkamp, q farmer near Mexico, Mo,
was treated by Mrs. Bamberger in
1895, and was never seen by her par
ents afterward. She is said to have
died on the operating table, and her
body is said to have been disposed Of
in some mysterious manner.
Mrs. Bamberger is said to have sent
for Mrs. Hotson when Miss Holtkamp
was dying. The girl was q Catholic,
and while In her last agonies begged
to be sent to her home for burial.
Her request was denied, it is said, and
when che screamed aloud with pain,
1t lie claimed that the midwife admin-
istered a dose OF morphine.
City Marshal Lane and g represent
alive of the Post Dispatch went out to
Mr.. Hoitkamp's on Nov. 20, and II
possible viii secure a photograph of
Miss Holtkamp and q lock Of her hair,
and as correct q description finer per-
son as possible. The object is to iden-
tify the body when 1t is disinterred in
st. Louis.