New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-04-18
GIRL is MURDERED
BY S!;PURNED YOUTH
MAMIE GENSKE SHOT DOWN BY
MATTHEW LANG IN SLEEPY
: EYE STREET.
CRIME is WITNESSED BY FAMiL -
OF THE UNsUsPEcTING
VICTIM.

Sleepy Eye Saturday afternoon, Matthew
a. Lang, aged Fl, shot and killed Miss
{ Mamie Genske, a few months Lang's
junior, because she refused to marry
him. The crime, which was committed
on Postoffice square, was witnessed by
several hundred people including the
victims father, mother and two sisters.
The murderer is now in the county Jail
here.
Daughter of Prominent rF amer.
Miss Genske was the daughter of Fred
Genske, one of the most prominent farm
ers of Home township. The murderer is
the son of Gordon Lang, a former resident
of Essig, but who year or so ago moved
his family to Nevis, Hubbard county,
where they now make their home. III.
Two of the three bullets that Lang
fred at the defenseless young woman
took effect and she died before reaching
the hospital.
A large number Of men rushed to the
street to surround Lang. Calmly facing
them with his reloaded revolver, he said
nothing, but sweeping his gun before
them he started to back away. Decoyed
into talking with O.. N. Ball, Lang was
surprised by a couple of men from the
rear and disarmed. Chief of Police
Maloney brought him to the jail in this
city. They were met on the way by,
Deputy Sheriff Jahnke and County
Attorney Adolph Frederickson, who had
been notified of the shooting and had
started for Sleepy Eye.
Cold Blooded Murder. @
5 The murder is described by eye wit
nesses as the most coldbloeded affair
ever committed. in this vicinity Miss
Genske went to Sleepy Eye Saturday
y with her. parents to do some shopping.
Whether she saw Lang earlier in the day
is not known. Coming out of the post
office shortly after 4 o'clock, accompanied
by her mother and younger sister, he
approached her from behind. Her father
and another sister were crossing the
street from another direction, and Miss
Genske turned to meet them. AS she
did so she spied Lang and turned toward
cher mother, when the assassin began to
fire upon her. ...5 5a,s.i ...s ,-z
About year and a half ago Lang asked
Miss Genske to marry him. She re-
fused. His attentions were so insistent,
and his affections scorned, that it is
claimed he threatened her life at that
time, and February, 1916, he was ar
rested, brought before Justice N. Hen
ningsen, and placed under bonds to keep
the peace. The bonds were signed by
Matthias Ludwig and Lang's father.
the bond expired by limitation, however,
about year ago.
Returned From North.
Since then Lang has been in North
Dakota and Northern Minnesota, re-
turning to Brown county only about a
week ago, since which time he had been
!. in and around Sleepy Eye until the time
of the crime.
Since his arrest Lang has made no
statement, except that he had been
!, drinking prior to the shooting.
; N The prisoner will probably be arraigned
before Justice Henningsen to-day or to-
morrow, charged with murder in the first
degree.
Story of Eye Witness.
G. F. Marshall, travelling salesman,
an eye witness to the murder, related the
following account of the affair:
1t was about 5:45 p. M, when was
standing near the Northwestern depot
at Sleepy Eye that I heard several shots
near me. I turned and looked in the
direction of the shots and saw the girl
lying on the cement sidewalk. I saw
the fellow start to run. Several of the
people who were near the depot started
to run after him. I followed them and
soon caught up with the crowd in a
lumber yard, about two blocks to the
east Of the station. Lang had already
been caught.
ST was told that it was man who
worked in the depot restaurant that
caught him. This young man joined in
the chase with his white apron and his
white cap on. learned that this waiter
caught up with Lang in the lumber yard.
- Eng, dazed and excited, pointed the
anne gun with which he killed the girl,
at the waiter. The waiter coolly walked
up to him, talking all the while and say