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A ‘butcher’ confesses to grisly murders of farm family
More than 1,000 people watched as Bomberger died by hanging after pleading guilty to the murders and rape that devastated the Kreider family.
- On January 19, 1894, Albert Bomberger climbed the gallows in Cando, North Dakota, to face execution for murdering the Kreider family, with more than 1,000 people gathered to witness the event.
- Bomberger, who worked on Daniel Kreider's ranch, murdered the farmer, his wife, and four children in July 1893 after making "indecent proposals" to their eldest daughter, Annie Kreider, which she rejected.
- Days after arrest, two lynch mobs of more than 100 people formed in Cando and Devils Lake, forcing Sheriff McCune to transport Bomberger by train; he pleaded guilty and received a death sentence.
- Before execution, Bomberger refused religious counsel from McNamara, stating "Thank you" but adding he did not know what he believed; he hung for 13 minutes before being pronounced dead.
- More than 15,000 people attended funerals for Daniel Kreider, his wife, and four children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, while the four remaining orphaned children were sent to live with family friends.
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A ‘butcher’ confesses to grisly murders of farm family
CANDO, N.D. — One slippery wooden step at a time, hands and feet in manacles, Albert Bomberger climbed toward the hangman’s noose awaiting him atop a newly erected gallows on Jan. 19, 1894. In every direction, horses hitched to sleighs were parked. More than 1,000 grim-faced people — doctors, politicians, preachers and farmers — stood below, waiting for Bomberger to die. They called him the butcher of the Kreider family. Shackled hand and foot, …
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