The Detroit times., 1910-05-04
SHOOTS MISTRESS
DEAD As She
LIES IN BED
Charles Rewa Sends Four Bullets
Into Body of Mrs. Otto Sielka
Then Turns Revolver on
Himself.
Slayer Is in st. Mary's Hospital,
But Will Recover-Tragedy
Due To Jealousy.

In the dim light of early morn, the
final chapter in story of Illicit love
was written Wednesday morning.
when Charles Rewa, torn by jealous
rage, fired four bullets into the body
OF his mistress in bedroom of their
fiat at No. 353 Orleans-st. The woman
was known as Emma Redmann, cut
was the wife OF Otto Sielka. driver
for the wholesale liquor Arm of Rob-
inson & Aronheim.
The woman died almost instantly,
and TO make the tragedy complete,
Rewa then trained the weapon upon
himself One bullet he sent crashing
through his head, and he lies in st.
Marys hospital in serious condition.
He was taken there after vain eff
fort to fight off the officers who placed
him under arrest
Clara Weston was the only witness
OF the ARRAY, and she Is detained In
the matron's room In police headQuar-
ters as witness. She was In bed
with the Redmann woman when tile
shooting occurred, and clad only in
her night dress, she ran screaming
from the house.
After shooting the woman and firing
bullet into his own head. Rewa
calmly barricaded himself In the
house and then drank pint of whisr
ky, tossing the empty bottle under tina
bed where the woman he had killed
had lain. Officers were forced TO
break open the door to take Rewa.
The Weston woman has chosen To
surround herself with mystery. Sha
will tell nothing about herself and
talks but little OF the shooting. Sha
comes from Ohio, but will not tell the
name of the city.
AS Rewa was being taken from tina
house, he fought furiously with his
captors. Blood was streaming down
face that was CHASTITY white.
She wasn't true" he Missed,
The trifier. Let me look at her
again. | want to be sure that did a
good job. / want to make sure she's
really dead"
About o'clock Wednesday morning
the Redmann woman remarked to her
bed companion, Miss Weston. that 1t
was going to DE a nice morning. She
said she thought she would get up and
start to do some washing. Rewa, In
an adjoining room, heard the two
talking. He came into the room with
a revolver in his hand.
Whats that?" he said. What's
that?"
Then he started shooting. Emma
Redmann received the first bullet In
the neck she struggled TO her feet, and
Rewa followed her around the room,
firing one shot after another. One
bullet penetrated her skull and an
OfI of
Mortified, Miss Weston ran to the
street. running north on Urleans-st.
Patrolman Max Wendtlandt. walking
south, hurried TO her. She told him of
the shooting, and warned him TO be
careful. She said Rewa had a reyol-
yer and that he was desperate. Wendt-
landt rushed up the stairs of the fiat,
which is over confectionery store.
The door was locked and bolted. The
officer beat furiously upon It and 1t
finally gave way. He saw the man and
woman lying on the floor.
As soon as Rewa saw the officer he
got up and started TO struggle. The
policeman oyercame him and then
went out to notify police headquarters.
The Weston girl was standing across
the street In q little while. Detec-
tives High and Fenton, Patrolmen
Wagner and Signal Officer Stack were
on the scene, and with Wendtlandt,
they went up to the fiat.
Meanwhile, Rewa had barricaded the
door again The officers broke In
again. Rewa had consumed the whisky
and was in an ugly mood.
The woman's body was removed to
the county morgue and Rewa was Ia
ken 20 ST. Mary's hospital
Rewa Is 36 years old ard the Red
mann woman was 30. Miss Weston is
IS She had been here about three
weeks. Neighbors on Orleans-st. say
they understood that Rewa and the
woman were brother and sister. They
had been living together on Orleans-st.
for a long time.
Rewas parents live at No. us Nc
Doueall-ave They say they frequently
implored him TO have nothing to do
with the woman.
Rewa stole the woman from her
husband, Otto Sielka. Of No. 500
Cleveland-st. tho latter says, and at-
Ter living with her for nearly year,
shot and killed her because he felt
that she WAS now as untrue TO him
az she had been 20 her husband.
Rewa and SieIka used to work to-
gether. and we're bosom friends, un-
til Sielka took Rewa. 10 his home.
then on Illinois-st., near Chene-st.
Rewa became a frequent caller. He
and Mrs Sielka We're soon very friend
~. and one evening, Sielka. who had
become somewhat suspicious. hid
himself beside the front porch where
they were sitting. and saw love-mak-
ing which aroused him to fury. He
tC5ntiaued on Pase EtghtD