St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-18
JUDGE LYNCH BALkED
Sommers, the Hastings MUIR
derer, Removed to st. Paul
to Save His Life.
A Mob Of Infuriated Citizens
Threatened to String
Him Up.
Speculative Sioux Offer to
Sell a Townsite to Gull
ible Boomers.
New Life Infused Into a Sup
posed Corpse by a
Physician.
Special to the GLOBE.

Special to the GloDe.
HASTINGS. MIMI, Feb. 1.-THE all
absorbing topic on the streets and at
business places to-day was the murder
of Miss Dietzen Sunday evening. At 8
O'Clock this morning Sheriff Hyland
and Chief of Police Richards returned
from Red Wing with Louis Summers,
the murderer, having captured him
there this morning at about 4:20 o'clock
After the shooting, which occurred near
the Libby lumber yards, on East Second
street, the murderer fled through the
yards south, across Lake Isabelle, and,
striking the Milwaukee load, started
for Red Wing. The officers, after scOur-
ing this nelghborhood, and searching
tor him In Prescott, Wis, where he has
brother and sister residing, returned
to this city, and took the 10:30 freight
for Red Wing. where they arrived at
midnight. kilograms had preceded
them, but the fugitive had not been
seen, and the officers. thinking he might
be around the railroad yards, made a
thorough investigation, returning about
4:20 to the depot,
WHERE THEY FOUND SOMMERS
seated near the stove half asleep. A
search of his clothing resulted in find
ing new 32-caliber revolver, with four
cartridges exploded and the fifth one
still in it's chamber, and a pocket knife.
A posse of men boarded handcar about
l O'Clock, and, taking with them piece
of rope, started for Red Wing, but re-
turned after few hours, neither seeing
nor hearing anything of the murderer.
Excitement ran high yesterday morning
which the parties lived. and threats of
lynching were repeatedly made, but
wiser counsel prevailed. Fearing a
lynching bee the prisoner was removed
from the county Jail to st. Paul in the
afternoon. Mary Deitzen, the victim of
this horrible affair, was well and favor
ably known here. At the time she was
shot down in cold blood she was walk
ing up Second street in company with a
young girl about her own age, named
Link. They passed Sommers ON the
street, and the girl Link wished him
good evening"" He made no reply,
but passed on. Turning quickly he
drew revolver and
SHOT HIS SWEETHEART.
Miss DeitZen started forward, while
her companion broke away and ran
across the street, terrified. After the
first shot two more were fired, and then
a crowd gathered. The body of Miss
DietZen was found fiat on its face,
with a bullet hole under the left
shoulder blade, that had caused instan-
taneous death. So close was the pistol
held to the victim that, when found, her
cloak was on fire. The body was re-
moved to MertZ & Sons undertaking
rooms. Miss DeitZen would have been
twenty-One years of age on March IA.
Deitzen. Her funeral will occur on
Wednesday. Louis Sommers, the mur-
derer, is in his twenty-firSt year, and
has always been regarded as quiet,
gentlemanly young fellow, and jealousy
is the only cause that can be assigned
for the terrible tragedy. He Is the Sec
ond youngest of large family, and his
aged mother and brothers and sisters
are nearly distracted over the affair.
Popular feeling is against the prisoner.
His Oldest brother is one of the foremost
citizens and business men of
Hastings, aud holds seat as council
man from the First ward.
FOUR BULLETS IN HER BODY.
The autopsy held over the remains of
Mary Deitzen developed the fact that
four bullets had entered the un-.
fortunate victims body. One of the
bullets entered the back at the shoul-
der blade and passed through the lower
portion of the heart. Another struck
the spine near the dorsal vertebra and
took an upward course. A third bullet
entered and passed through her liver,
and the fourth, which could not be
found, struck the hip and trayersed
downward. The autopsy lasted FIVE
hours. and the coroner's jury will not
meet until tomorrow morning at
8 o'clock. Excitement ran high all the
afternoon, and was quickened by the
appearance of the girls father on the
streets in frenzied state of mind, ANY
one of the bullets that entered the girls
body would have produced instant
death.