On Saturday night, May 27, 1916, Alick Angle, a miller, arrived home at 11 p.m. heavily intoxicated. He started a quarrel with his wife and began to abuse her as soon as he entered the house. Angle was 45 years old; his wife 36. Neighbors said there had been frequent quarrels, but none of a serious nature until this night. It was said that Angle had been drinking heavily of late and was jealous of his wife, the mother of three children, although neighbors said there was no reason for his jealousy.

While his 20 year old son argued with his father, Mrs. Angle took refuge in the drugstore at 2401 Franklin Avenue South. A 13 year old son said his father fired three shots at him after Mrs. Angle left the house. The boy ran into the garden and escaped. According to the children, Angle had threatened to kill the entire family.

Brushing his older son aside, Angle pursued his wife to the drugstore, and as she faced him in the doorway he fired three shots at her. Mrs. Angle had just opened the door to enter the store when the first bullet struck her. She staggered and was about to fall when two more shots were fired, one striking her in the head, the other in the body. All took effect and Mrs. Angle dropped on the threshold, dying instantly.

The druggist, in the hope of stopping a crazed man, threw three heavy bottles at him. One struck Angle in the face and he fled. Hurrying back to his house at 2005 Twenty-fourth Avenue South, Angle began to barricade himself inside. The children had taken refuge with the neighbors.

The druggist had already notified the police, and Nels C. Anderson, a motorcycle patrolman at the Minnehaha station was sent to the scene. When he reached the house he ordered the man to surrender. Instead of answering, Angle slammed the door in the officer's face, but Anderson forced it open and again gave Angle a chance to give himself up. The only answer was a shower of bullets.

Not until then did Patrolman Anderson use his revolver. He fired three shots, but was dropped where he stood, wounded twice. One shot took effect in Anderson's neck and the other penetrated the liver. Anderson managed to crawl out of the house and was hurried to the city hospital in the police ambulance, which had arrived in answer to another call by the druggist.

After Patrolman Anderson fell, Angle then retreated into the next room, piled the furniture against the door, barricading himself in the house and dared anyone to enter.

Four detectives, in the charge of Chief of Police Oscar Martinson, immediately surrounded the house. Before they could break in, they heard two shots in quick succession. When the chief kicked in the door he found Angle lying on the floor with two bullet holes in his body. One bullet had penetrated the heart and he died instantly.

Patrolman Anderson remained in extremely serious condition for four days, and he finally succumbed to his mortal wounds on May 31, 1916 at city hospital. He was 50 years old, married and the father of a family. He lived at 3512 19th Avenue South. Interment was in Lakewood Cemetery on June 3, 1916.

The horse, drawing an ice wagon, was left unattended by the driver. The runaway occurred at Twenty-fourth Avenue and Fillmore Street NE. When Patrolman ANDERSON attempted to stop the horse he was knocked down and the horse stepped on him, puncturing the abdomen.