The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-04-22
SHOOTS HIS Wife
Then KILLS SELF
CARL EMMEL OF ST. CLOUD
COMMITS TERRIBLE CRIME
IN ST. PAUL.
WOMAN LIKELY TO RECOVER
DOMESTIC LIFE WAS FULL OF
UBLE-PARENTS PROM
INENT IN THIS COUNTY

st. Paul, April 1S.-Carl Emmel, q
young accountant, met his wife in a
downtown law office yesterday after
noon to adjust their trivial domestic
difficulties. Within few minutes he
had shot her and fatally wounded him
self. He died in an ambulance on the
way to the City Hospital. She prob
ably will recover. Their two-year-old
daughter fell asleep last night in her
grandparents home, asking for her
father and mother. Another child, a
|: boy, only year old, lay at his sis
ter's side.
Mrs. Emmel was waiting in the Of
flee of Boyesen & Flor, 901 Pioneer
building, when her husband entered.
He asked for Attorney H. H. Flor to
arrange the conference and Mrs. En-
mel had agreed by telephone from her
home with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
J. C. Boiler, 321 Pleasant avenue.
She was in the private quarters Of
A. E. Boyesen when her husband ar
rived and entered the room. The man.
closed the door, drew revolver and
began firing. Four times he pulled
the trigger.
One bullet shattered window, two
others lodged in the walls and the
fourth struck Mrs. Emmel in the neck
Screaming for aid, the woman fell
back on a chair from which she had
leaped as her husband drew his re-
volver. Then she slipped to the floor.
Emmel ran into another room of the
suite. Attorney Flor closed the door
and ran to the woman.
81 slammed the door shut to pre-
vent the man from coming out and
then went to the aid of Mrs. Emmel,"
said Mr.. Flor. "a few minutes later I
heard another shot and concluded
Emmel had killed himself"
"Take him away, any place." Mrs.
Emmel cried, as her husband was
picked up. 81 don't care where you
take him."
According to the story told by Mrs.
Emmel at the hospital, her husband
had been drinking for several days
and note which she had written him
indicates that this may have been the
cause of their domestic troubles. The
note, with the photograph of the cou-
pies daughter and rosary, was found
in one of Emmel's pockets. -
Throngs were drawn to the Pioneer
building by the double shooting. Hun
Edreds crowded into the corridors and
sought the ninth story by way of the
elevators and stairways, and more
packed Robert and fourth streets OUT
side the structure. A special detail Of
police worked to control the crowd,
through which the dying man and his
wife were carried on stretchers from
the elevators to the ambulances.
Emmel appeared cheerful and hope
full of a reconciliation with his wife
when he first appeared at his office,
Mr.. Flor said, after the shooting. He
did not seem to be agitated, the attor-
ney said, and appeared anxious to
have a talk with his wife. That he
may have had tragedy in mind, how
ever, is indicated by the fact that he
carried a gun, .3S calibre revolver
fully loaded.
Mrs. Emmel apparently had no pre-
monition of trouble when she bid her
child goodby and went to the Pioneer
building to meet her husband. She
said at the hospital last night that she
did not know why she had been called
to the office.
Coroner Jones will make an investi-
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lice surgeon, who attended Mrs. EN-
mel after the shooting, was class
mate of the woman at Central High.
Emmel up to a week ago, was en-
ployed as cashier at the Welsbach
company, 344 Minnesota street. He.
came from st. Cloud, where the fam
lily prominent. According to story
tod by Arthur Emmel, brother now
living at st. Cloud, Carl's head was
injured when he fell from a horse
few years ago and the brother said
last night that in his opinion this was
partly responsible for the tragedy.
Mrs. Emmel was graduated from
Central high school in 1905. She was
married in ST. Paul three years ago.
After graduation from high school
/ Mrs. Emmel attended the st. Cloud
Normal and met Mr.. Emmel while a
student at the normal.
"He had been drinking for four
days. did not know why was called
to the lawyers office but went when
Mr.. Flor asked me to. / suppose my
husband wanted to adjust our family