The Mankato free press., 1921-09-09
SHOT DEAD AT NIGHT.
"Could Not Stand to See
Them Starve And
Freeze"
So the Slayer Explained
In Letter To His
Brother
Death House Gruesome
Sight AS Neighbor
Entered 7
Especial to The Free Press.1
VICTIMS OF THE MURDERER AND
THE SUICIDE.

Fred klocoW, sixteen years oIo.
Myrtle kloeow, fourteen.
Glen kloeow, twelve.
oliver kiocow, ten.
Leland klocoa, three.
ormsby, Mlnn., September g.
Funeral services for the family OF
frank kloeow, wno .no snSt nSharsn anH k'!,ed ned
then turned the pistol on himself,
sometime between Saturday night
and Sunday morning, will be held
from the kloeow home tomorrow
at 2:2o .. m. The funeral sermon
will be preached by Rev. M. x;
will be made In the Mount Hope
cemetery. The bodies will be
buried side by eide.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Masnes Of
Sterling, N. o., parents of Mrs.
kIoeoW will arrive here tomor-
row morning.
ST. James, Mlnn., September 6.-An
Inquest over the bodies OF Frank klo-
cow, his wife and five children who
were found shot to death In their
home at ormsby yesterday. will not
be necessary, Coroner Thompson OF
Watonwan county announced today.
An investigation conducted yester-
day, Or. Thompson announced, had
satisfied him that Mrs. kIocow and
her five children had been shot and
killed by the husband and father be-
fore kloeow fired a shot Into his own
Investigations made yesterday and
continued today have not developed
cause for the killings, the coroner
said. So far as has been learned
there was nothing in kloeow's resig-
= nation from the Farmers State bank
a hu M a
the act, and friends Of the family say
their homo life always had been
pleasant.
Funeral arrangements are being
made today.
times, Mimi, September 6-Sev-
en- people, dead, six of whom were muir
dered and one came to his end by
his own hand. This in brief tells the
story OF the most shocking tragedy
ever enacted in Watonwan county and
which was revealed yesterday at
Klocow family, found them in their
home in that village, each member OF
the head -
ormsby is a small station on the
Minneapolis and st. Louis Railway
twelve miles from st. James. For ten
or twelve years Frank Klocow has
been cashier of the Farmers State
Bank of Ormsby until some six weeks
ago when he resigned. Himself and
family have held high in the es-
teem Of friends and neighbors and nc
intimation of the terrible act which
was enacted had been given.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Albert
Strelow, a neighbor, called at the Klo-
cow home and failing to receive any re
sponse to her rap at the front door, she
went to the kitchen door, and there
found a card on the screen on which
was written the words walk In
Acting on the suggestion, Mrs. StreloW
opened the door and stepped into the
: house and was Mortified to behold The
body of Myrtle Klocow, girl OF four
teen, lying in a pool of blood on Q
davenport or couch in the living room
Fled From the House
Mrs. Strelow fed from the hSuse anC
gave the alarm and other neighbors
entered the home to find the dead bo
dies of the entire family, Mr.. and MIS-
Klocow and their five children deac
in their beds. y Coroner Albert Thomp
son was called and the sheriff's Office
was notified. The officials hurried Il
the scene/and their investigation re
vealed that each member of the family
had been shot through the head, som'
of them receiving two shots, while tn,
husband and father, who haG evident
ly committed the horrible crime, la,
dead in bed beside the body OF hi
wife, a bullet hole through his owl
his left arm and his body. 1t is clearl!
evident that the husband and fathel
bad murdered his entire family ant
then ended his own life.
The weapon used was a thirty two
calibre revolver, a five shot weapon
Ten empty shells were found on the
floors in the various rooms and two
empty shells and three loaded ones re
NAMED in the revolver as it rested
beside the dead body of the man.
Was Gruesome Sight
It was a gruesome sight that con
fronted the Free Press correspondent
when he visited the home an hour af-
ter the bodies were discovered. lr
the bedroom on the ground floor oi
the fine home lay the bodies of KlocoW
and his wife while in a crib near BY
lay the body Of little Leland, three ol
four year old son. On the couch in the
front room was the blood stained Dody
an up stairs bedroom we found Fred
aged sixteen, and his brother, Glen
aged twelve. On lounge near theil
bed was the lifeless body OF Oliver
aged ten years. -
The bodies were In a bad state oi
decomposition and it is believed thai
the crime was committed between the
hours Of twelve and one o'clock Sat
urday night, but was not revealed unit
Mrs. Strelow CHANGED to call Al
about three. thirty this afternoon. Ar.
mold Ingold, another neighbor, states
that he was sitting at his home read
ing at late hour when he heard two
or three shots. There was dance IN
Ormsby Saturday night and severa
cars passed the Ingold and Klocov
homes between twelve and one O'Clock
the young people talking and laughing
and making more or less noisel Ingoll
Thought that the shots were fired BY
some boys driving home from the
dance and gave no further though,
to the matter until the report OF the