St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-17
HE WAS A REJECTED LOVER.
ChemeIeck Got Even With the
Whole Family, as He Had
Threatened

Chemeleck Got Even With the
Whole Family, as He Had
Threatened.
Special to the Globe.
AUSTIN, Mimi, Feb. 16.-Last night
about IL o'clock there occurred in the
cosy farm cottage of Philip Chemeleck.
on section four, in the town of London,
Freeborn caunty, the most terrible
tragedy that even happened in South
ern Minnesota. Joe Chemeleck.a brake
man about nineteen years old, shot and
killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Philip
Chemeleck, and her two daughters, Rose
and Mary, and then blew out his own
brains. When your correspondent
reached the scene of the tragedy to-day
the sight was horrible in the extreme.
On the floor of the main room lay pretty
Mary Chemeleck, dead with gunshot
wound in her neck. In the room up
stairs was her sister Rosa, cold in death,
On.the floor beside the bed occupied by
Rosa lay the mother of the girls, in
pool of blood which slowly oozed from
a wound in the back of her head. In
pasture about thirty rods northeast of
the house lay the author of the terrible
triple murder, with a double-barreled
shotgun in his left hand and 3S-caliber
American bulldog revolver in his right.
A bullet hole in the right side of the
head revealed how he
ENDED HIS OWN LIFE.
after completing his murderous work.
Hundreds of families from all over the
country were on the premises. That
the murder was -premeditated, there is
no doubt, and the assassin, Joe Cheme-
leck, went to the house of his half
brother, Philip, last evening about
young man named Frank Lunacheck,
and they played cards together until
8 o'clock, when Joe Chemeleck took
his departure, the folks in the house
supposing lie was going home. About
IL o'clock the girls rose, and Mary
stepped out of the house, and about half
an hour later they rushed into the
house, saying: "Joe shot u.s." Then
they both staggered and fell on the
floor. Their parents took them up
stairs and laid them on a bed. The
mother washed their wounds, and
Philip Chemeleck started to get his son,
who lived about mile distant, to 90 for
doctor. The. young man Lunachek
started in pursuit of the assassin. No
sooner were they out of the house than
the cowardly assassin entered, went up
stairs and shot Mrs. Chemeleck through
the head. At this time Rosa was dead,
and Mary lay quiet fearing. that he
would shoot her again. AS soon as he
left she ran out from
THIS SCENE OF DEATH
and started for her brothers house,
which she reached in about an hour.
There she told the story of the crime as
above, and expired in short time. The
motive for the murderis that Chemeleck
was in love with the eldest girl Mary.
For time during last summer she re-
ceived his attentions favorably, but
later, through the opposition of her
family, she rejected him, and recently,
when he was arrested for assault,
she gave testimony against him. After
this Chemlick remarked to some of his
friends that it was pretty tough when
a fellows sweetheart swears against
him, but that he would yet
GET EVEN WITH HER
and would kill her and the whole fami-
ly if she persisted III going back on
him. These were regarded as idle
threats at the time, and no one paid any
attention to them. Chemlick purchased
the revolver, with which he shot Mrs.
Chemlick and himself, about week
ago. The girls were shot with shot
gun loaded with buck shot. All the