New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-05

left shoulder was pierced by ball. Thus
wounded, Mr.. Lupke beat hasty retreat
for the house and when near the door he
heard another shot fired in the barn.
] A daughter of Lupke's ran to a near
neighbor's to summon help and a doctor
was promptly summoned by phone, as
were the officers. August Joblinski,
employed at the Gieseke home, where
the girl went for help, went to the Lupke
home and entering the hay loft from
whence the shots were fired, found his
brother, Henry Joblinski, dead by his
own hand, bullet having penetrated
his heart.
| Henry Joblinski had worked on the
Lupke farm tiling, and had been paying
attention to Lupke's daughter. His
attentions were objected to by the father
and he had been ordered to remain away
from the premises. Brooding over this
matter, no doubt caused him to adopt
the course of action he pursued, and
secreting himself in the hay loft he
awaited the coming of Mr.. Lupke to do
the morning chores, when he opened
fire, inflicting serious wounds in both of
the old gentleman's shoulders. He then
turned the gun upon himself firing a
bullet through his heart. Joblinski was
perhaps thirty-two or thirty-three years
n u1hi NJ; of
about forty-eight years.
When the summons came for the
officers Sheriff Lindquist was at Ormsby,
where he had been called in the early
morning to investigate robbery that
had taken place during the night. Deputy
Sheriff Harry Gibbs, accompanied by
Ed. Sundberg, chief of police, responded
and visited the Lupke place, finding con-
ditions as described above They were
unable, however, to locate the gun with
which the shooting was done, nor was it
found until Monday afternoon when
Sheriff Lindquist again visited the place
and found it beneath quantity of hay,
near where the suicide had shot himself.
The gun was Hopkins & Allen 80
calibre and when the body of the dead
man was examined by the coroner, there
were fifty-two shells found in the pockets
OF his clothing. The revolver found Ky
the sheriff contained three empty
cartridges, tallying with the report that
two shots were fired at Lupke and one
used to end the tragedy in the death of
the assailant.
Joblinski's body was brought to UNI
dertaking rooms in St. James Sunday
night and prepared for burial, interment
being made without ceremony the follow
ing day. .........
Latest reports we are able to get be-
fore going to press indicate that Mr..
Lupke's condition is very favorable for
his recovery notwithstanding his double
injury.
The second shooting occurred at
Madelia. The main street in the village |
was the scene of quarrel Sunday after
noon when Leo jacobson, aged sixteen
years, was shot through the stomach. his !
intestines being perforated in ten places
by shot fired by one of two men who
were engaged in an alteration.
Bill Jones, painter and laborer, and |
Jess Marsh, horse-trader, met on the |
streets of Madelia and are said to have
resumed quarrel that originated in !
New Ulm the night before. Suddenly |
a shot rang out, and while the intended |
victim escaped, the lad, standing on the |
sidewalk, an inoffensive spectator, fell |
pierced through the abdomen by the |
ball which passed entirely through his
body and lodged in the wall behind him. |
Jones charged with doing the shooting,
was promptly arrested and lodged in
jail, while Marsh was also taken into
custody to be held as a witness. The
boy was rushed to the Mankato hospital
where an operation was promptly per-
formed, the ten perforations being
sewed up.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig
Jacobson of Madelia.
Jones was arraigned before the local
justice at Madelia Tuesday, but his
hearing was continued for two weeks to
await developments in the matter of the
condition of the injured lad who is re-
ported at late writing to be getting
along very nicely though complications
may cause his death any time within a
few days. Jones is being held in the
county jail at Mankato.