This day in history: Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin killed seven people with an axe on this day in 1899 at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.
As an adult, Malmelin became a farmworker at the Simola croft in Klaukkala, a village in the southern part of the Nurmijärvi municipality. The tenant there was Johan Ezekiel Aspelin. Malmelin began dating Edla, the crofter's daughter, but when she would not become his wife, he killed everyone on the croft (a small farm) with an axe on 10 May 1899. Three of the victims were women and two were children. Malmelin was arrested a couple of weeks later.
Malmelin was sentenced to life imprisonment, BUT, after serving only 13 years, he was actually pardoned by Nicholas II in 1912.
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