Due to ill health, Rev Kobylinski returned to Poland in 1910. He was replaced by Fr. Paul Kupferschmidt, who was priest for three years until his death in 1913.
Rev. Henry Jazdzewski was again appointed pastor. On March 4, 1916 he was in front of the Church hearing confessions at 6:00 pm when Aneila Dudek, a 38 year old Minneapolis woman, entered the church from the side door with her hands concealed in a muff. She approached the priest and then aimed a .32 caliber revolver at his head, squeezed the trigger, hitting him just above the left eye. She fired four more shots, all of them unnecessary; the first bullet had been fatal.
It was later learned that this was the third attempt Mrs. Dudek had made on the priest’s life. She had also filed three lawsuits against him, but lost all three. She claimed he had violated his vow of celibacy and that he was responsible for her youngest child. She was not brought to trial until her mental condition was evaluated, but the major consensus was that she was mentally and emotionally unstable. (No information is available on whether or not she was convicted of murder).