The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-24
WIS RESULT OF QUARREL
FRANK GREIPEL HAD CALLED HIS
BROTHER-IN-LAW INSULT
ING NAMES
CORoNER's INQUEST IS HELD
Testimony of Witnesses Was That
Mingers Had Practically Sup
ported GreipeI Family for
Some Time

|
Some Time.
| Testimony introduced at the inquest
| held over the remains of Frank GreipeI.
| at the county morgue last night, revealed
! the fact that Greipel and his brother-in-
| law, Mingers, had engaged in heated
| quarrel Immediately before the murder
! was committed Sunday night William
BOerner a farmer living on the Dodd
| road, at whose house Mingers called after
| the shooting told the following story:
''At about 10:30 o'clock Sunday night. as
I was preparing to retire. 1 was startled
! by a rapping on one of the windows, and
| on looking out I saw Mingers, whom l
| have known for five years, reckoning me
! to come outside. l went to the door and
asked him to come into the house. but
he refused. and startled me by saying:
Come on and shake hands with me, Bill.
You are going to have a chance to shake
hands with a murderer tonight l ask
ed him what he meant, and he told me
he had killed his brother-in-laW He
looked nervous and frightened, and he
insisted my going for a walk with
him so that he could tell me how 1t hap
pened. but I didn't like his looks and
refused to go away from the house. After
I gave him a bottle of beer. he seemed
refreshed, and told me the story OF the
shooting.
GREIPEL THE AGGRESSOR.
Gle said that he called at GreipeTs
home early in the evening. After he had
been in the house short time, Greipel
| began making insinuating remarks, which
angered him. Greipcl finally asked MingerS
for St, which he claimed was coming to
him for work done on the latters farm.
Mingers claimed that he owed Greipel no
money, and further that he had con-
tributed very largely to the support Of
the Greipel family and the clothing OF
the children for long time. Greipel be-
came personal, and made d remark to
the effect that Mingers' face revealed the
fact that he was no good He then made
other insulting comp ar.sons, and Mingers,
as he himself expressed ii, felt his blood
beginning to boil Gre:pel tien ordered
Mingers from the house. and assured him
that if he did not go at once that he
would have him forcibiy elected. 1t was
then that Mingers asked h's sitter to
leave the room, and committed the deed
that was his undoing.
Boerner said that Mngers was ac-
companied by his dog, whose name, by
the way, is Mckinley. He went with
Mingers to the barn and they locked up
the dog. Mingers then asked for a
rope and made a remark to the effect
that he would not be found alive. Beer-
ner, who did not have rope, and was
becoming more nervous every minute,
finally persuaded Mingers to leave the
place.
MRS. GREIPEL. TESTIFIES.
Dina Greipel, widow of the murdered
man, appeared at the inquest attired In
deep mourning and heavily yelled With
her were her baby and the young son
frankie. who witnessed the murder.
Mrs. Greipel was composed and testified
quite freely. She said:
Henry came to the house soon after
supper Sunday night He, with my
husband and the two youngest children,
sat in. the parlor and conversed. Soon
after he came he and my husband start
ed to quarrel. They picked UP old
grievances and threw unpleasant re-
marks at each other. My brother kept
talking about all that he had done for
us, and while 1t is true that he did help
US a great many times he always kept
referring to it, and it angered my hus-
band. Finally my husband told him
that he had better go away, and if he
didn't he would go out and get a police
man and have him put out of the house.
1 could see that Henry was getting very
angry and L, too, went to him and asked
him to go. My husband, who had
started to undreSs when my brother
came to the house. began putting on his
clothes, and after he hal gotten his
stockings on Henry asked me to go out
and get him some water. When l was
at the well I heard the shots, and on
coming in found my husband dead on the
floor. My brother had disappeared.
Mrs. Greipels testimony was somewhat
of a surprise, as at the first she stoutly
maintained that there had been no quar-
vol lot,
frankie, the six-year old boy, was not
put on the stand.
KADES WAS SCARED
Charles Kades, another farmer living
on the Dodd road ct whose house Mingers
called Sunday night after he left Boern-
ers, told of the murderer appearing uneX-
pectedly at about II o'clock and start
ling him and his wife by sticking his
head in the door of the chicken coop
where he was doing some work He told
Kades of numbering his brother-in-law,
and asked him for rope. Kades gave
him some wire instead. AS they were
talking they looked toward the road and
saw bicycle light moving rapidEy along
the road. Mingers grabbed Kades arm
ana exclaimed: Look! They are after.
intended to commit suicide, and soon
after left, much to the relief of that
gentleman, who. like Boernert was very
much frightened at Mingers' actions.
When asked why he did rot walk away
with Mingers, as the latter requested,
Kades remarked: 81 am not yet can
6ldate for St Peter" Kades as we'll as
Boerner, testified that Mingers was in
the habit of carrying a gun as he gener-
ally had large sums of money with him.
c. E. Hedlund, who lives in the house
next to the Greipel home, told of hear
ing the shots and of seeing Mrs Greipel
run out of the house. ard of her telling
him of the murder, lie then notified Pa
and Detectives Murnane and Fraser tes-
titled, also ". G. Shepard, newspaper
man.
After a few moments elaboration, the
coroner's jury returned the verdict that
Frank Greipel had come to his death as
result Of a bullet wound in his brain
inflicted by Henry Mingers, Sunday even