The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-26
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Charged with tho uprlsr Of A1sI P,kkaIl
which Occurred Il this City Oh tho
Moralag Of 0oeenbor 25th-
Jury conp|eto Wotlos.
dly Afternoon.

with the murder OF AXel Pakkala in
the latter's saloon in this city on
the morning of december 25th} be.
gan in district court here Wednes
day morning. The drawing of the
jury was begun that morning and
it was not until 2:45 Thursday after.
noon that the panel was completed,
some fifty having been examined
during that time. The list of jurors
on the case is az follows:
Walter A. Steele, cigarmaker, Eve
leth; John L., Brennan, torman for
d. & l. r., Biwabik; Thos. p. Null.
vaney, bookkeeper at Biwabik mine,
Biwabik; Clifford L. Dennis, book
keeper for the Oliver Iron Mining
Co., Virginia; Paul G. Oettel, lum Der
buyer for the Union Match Co..
West Duluth; 7. P. Chalmers. assist
ant health officer, Virginia; Thomas
Bennets, mining captain at Canon
mine, Kinney; VIM. H. .Elsou, loco
motive engineer, Hibbin9; W. L.
Winans, Itasca Bazaar, Hibbing;
David Graham, building contractor,
Hibblng; W. H. Day, merchant,
Hibbing; Louis BeIanger, barber,
Eveleth.
Assistants County Attorneys
Edw. L. Boyle of this city and War
rem E. Greene of Duluth are repre-.
senting the state, and Alexander
Marshall of Duluth and Geo. F
Shea of this city are attorneys for
the defendant. Drexier's father,
brother, sister and brother-in-law
of Milwaukee are here to attend the
trial. Up to the hour of adjourn
ment tonight several witnesses were
examined in behalf of the state,
when the court took recess until
Monday morning.
STORY OF THE SHOOTING.
The following is taken from the
issue of The Enterprise of Dec. 20:
LAS an indirect result of closing
his roll" over gaming table at
Axel Pakkala's saloon a few days
previously, Jack Drexler on Sunday
morning shot and instantly killed
Pakkala in his place of business
and turning the gun on others in
the saloon shot John Koski, a home
steader in the: Wallace district, in
the shoulder, the ball piercing the
lung, and grazed the neck OF Joseph
Putas, one of the bar-tenders in the
place. Finishing his work Drexler
turned the gun on himself, but the
magazine was empty, and after
realizing the man was unprotected
he was overpowered by others IN
the saloon and held until Officer
Larson's arrival.
ut seems Drexler went into the
place during the night aud in talk
ing about losing his money there a
few nights before became abusive
with the result that at Pakkala's
inst,gation he was thrown out of
the place. He later went to his
room where he took a revolver be
longing to a member of the Oliver
police force, with whom he slept,
and going back entered the saloon
and commenced business, the first
shot taking Pakkala through the
head and killing him inetantly.
"Drexler entered the plea of not
guilty when arranged in municipal
court Wednesday on a charge of
murder, being represented by
Judge Montague. He was bound
over without bail, and will come
before the next grand jury, which
body will likely have more or less
to say az to the manner in which
the saloon law is not enforced in
Virginia.
"Drexler il machinist. working
for several months at the Virginia
foundry 4 Machine Co.. leaving
there some time ago owing to his
arrest on a statutory charge by
Milwaukee authorities, who took
him to Wisconsin where he was
married but left his wife at once.
He has since been in western Can
ada, returning here a couple of
weeks ago and was to have gone
to the Kinney mine to work on
Tuesday of this week."
A few days after the shooting
koski was taken to g.. Lukes hos
pital in Duluth, where he died on
Tuesday, December g.