The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-04-22

of Carl Emmel will be taken to st.
Cloud today for burial Tuesday, I'M
less Coroner Jones decides it will be
necessary to hold it longer.
eve are Catholics and the Boiler
family are Lutherans," said Mr.. En-
mel last night. Georgia became
Catholic after she married my son
and l don't think this was pleasing to
her mother"
"My son would have been 33 years
old Monday. His separation from his
wife was at my advice. I was here
last Wednesday and Carl told me that
he had been having trouble with his
wife. He admitted that he had been
drinking, but said that attempts he
had made toward reconciliation with
Georgia had been thwarted by her
mother, who did not want Carl to re-
turn to the house.
even under the circumstances, I
cannot conceive of any reason for
Carl's shooting his wife except that
the old injury to his head made him
deranged while he was under the in
fluence of liquor. Drinking always has
effected him strangely since his acct
dent five years ago and while drunk
he seemed to unable to control his
temper.
Il went with Carl to the Boiler
home last Monday and again last
Wednesday in an attempt to straight
en- out the trouble, but when l saw
how things were in the home and that
Mrs. Emmel was under the influence
of her mother, l suggested that Carl
leave her for a time and rent a room
! somewhere down town, go back to
work and wait until his wife, who al
ways thought a great deal of him,
should see things in better light. He
promised to do this and l left him in
front of the Hotel Ryan at p. M,
taking a car for Minneapolis.
carl and l went to the Boiler home
and he packed his grip, taking only
few things which he would need. That
was the last | thought of the matter
until l was called on the telephone to-
day and told that he had shot his wife
and killed himself. l am glad the wife
is living and has a chance to recover,
so she will be able to take care of the
two children"
Mr.. Emmel said he had been called
on the telephone by his sons wife
Sunday. The young man had not come
home Saturday night or all day Sun
day, and Mrs. Emmel believed that he
had returned to his fathers home.
81 can do nothing else but blame
my son for his act, but l think the
injury to his head was principally re-
sponsible as it was not his nature to
harm anyone"
Carl Emmel was a graduate of St.
Johns University at Collegeville.
During the past six years Mr.. En-
mel has been in the land and real es-
I tate business and for time his son
was associated with him.
He has worked for the Great Nor
thern railroad, Swift & Co., and the
Welbach Mantel Company here, quit
ting the latter place last Saturday
when he learned that a former en-
ploye was to return and become the
head bookkeeper.
What originated the domestic strife
admitted to be the direct cause of the
shooting of Mrs. Carl Emmel and the
suicide of her husband, is a mystery
which the wife's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. C. Boiler, 321 Pleasant avenue
declared last night they were unable
to solve.
That Emmel and their daughter had
quarreled was admitted by the par
ents and they declared that Mrs. En-
mel had ordered the husband to leave
the house week ago when he came
home intoxicated. The parents were
stricken with grief when they arrived
at st. Joseph's hospital two. hours af-
ter the shooting and last night Sc
cluded themselves in their home.
"It's too horrible. l cannot talk of
it," said Mrs. Boiler last night when
questioned relative to the incidents
leading up to the tragedy.
l did not know there had been any