Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-09
THOUSAND SHOTS FIRED
Deputy Sheriff Kiaed and -Four Per-
sons WDsnded.
HOUSE sURRosfDED IN FOG
sAsrin,s Posse, g. Safe Shelter,
Opened Fire o., msn When They
Went ADou 1:.eir Work.

| WINTER, Wis. 4 Octsber S.-"If papa
comes out will yo4 promise not to shoot
him? He is shot sthrouAh the hand and
! wants to surrendfA"
| These words. = oxen 80 Sheriff Mike
Madden at the eHe of iSe clearing sur
rounding the beHieged nome by little
Helen. youngest xaughteS of John F.
Dietz, brought tyFan end2this afternoon
the stubborn resi- Sance of .he man whose
stand for the las !six year: against what
he considered Ejustice has attracted
widespread intelS6t.
The surrender Gid not come, however,
without death aNd bloodsned. One man
is dead. three hen and "a woman are
wounded and mt;th properly has been de-
stroyed. !
os:.s oss H. a.rD. '''rsy-avs year. old. dep
uty sheriff.
The injured: :.
John Dietz. a,rty-nine years old de-
fender Of Cam ron dam. shot through
C chet colepit. thirty-ave years old.
deputy sheriff. s:ght ear shot off.
Clarence Diers shot through arm.
Myra Dietz. ssy't througt the body: will
recover Z
The last ,wc:i children of John Dietz,
We're shot lastsweek by deputies.
Bulles in His Head.
Harp was f'$lnd on a lill behind the
Dietz cabin, sith a bulst hole in his
head. With 1sont Wileys Tom Pomerlo
and William EiSkin, all deputies, he had
| tried to crawl: to a place of vantage in
the lumber I:;les near rle Dietz barn,
| when a well Sirected bulset caught him.
According to Iiley, three bullets whistled
| through the r at abouts the same time
and one Of ti1 IN struck Isarp. The other
deputies retrEtted withoEa trying to res
cue their co4irade. He: was found at
sisS three 0,sloSk Son4s. nd had be- dead about
Dietz had Isst been wou.s1ed during the
morning fusit,ade as had coeen supposed
His drop to the ground 1evas merely a
ruse to fool I se deputies >sxe was injured
while firing rom the bs.A, during the
crack and pt5ssed through S,is left hand.
Dietz denies That the wouSa caused him
the priest wM was largely instrumental
he xhisDsset that a baby as 50 about + ea1ss, to
be born to Es' wife and hi feared that
both she ana the infant m@;ht die.
surreAder Is Drarl latic.
The surreps:er of Dietz VS. dramatic.
The alert l,snbermen. leanAs on their
rifles at the: edge of the Eearing and
watching the: windows of III log cabin,
suddenly saw the fiutter of a |hitc hand
kerchief at '..e door. Then tie Helen
appeared an6 advancing wit the cloth
above her hetd. walked to t-a edge of
the clearing. 1where she annozaced that
linz
A short co2sultation followeG between
the sheriff aS1 his deputies aiel Deputy
Henelfnger vrhunteered to go fack with
the girl. In yle' meantime. FaiEer Pilen,
an end, had started running teSsard the
cabin He W we'd a handkercL.:.f as he
ran and unhes; ;,tatingly entered She door
When Helen And Heffelfinger got half
way to the 4'bin they met ~" priest
returning. Hx did not stop, bur hurried
on TO meet th sheriff.
.h1} Rie1s hs will rrender, aac,o the prs, said.
ns%s6sosI wounds and Ina 2 desires to talk i'h the
II won't II st him. said thes sheriff
out with his sands over his $ h.ssd'" ID come
ral1stwith Reportst.
Sheriff Mad scn refused to 70 to the
cabin and kerr behind tre Deputies
Thornbahn, Se'ly. Heffelfnegr and DR..
D. G. Il. Graft:'i of Hayward went TO the
cabin. dressed :oietzs wounI handcuffed
| him and Lesliss. his brotherS and brought
them out. D's' left haS I'd was in u
sling He was smiling ans spoke cheer
| fully to the me- tpapermen4 He posed for
several picture1 with the ;;heriff, in one
of of,,c;sI' SsIeh he :" shaking :'ands with the
why didn't you gi,s in yesterday
torney genera a repe @ Ter ,s' asked. GS lhe At
They kept G,s chanreig their plans"
he replied. ''ane didn. know"
Il couldn't he'd out. any longer with
myself and Leslie GRIP: led. The bullets
came so fast it ;ookedflik the wife and
babies would g. it. ) 90"
Captive ke,s to Winter.
While the arrtAt v-.s being made the
little girl and b&' cslng to their weep
ing mother. and f~esl who was wounded
| in the hip, sat sA,ie'.y in chair. John
| D1etzS injuries 'oT; list of wounded
hand. but neithsr he nor Leslie is
| seriously hurt.
! Dietz was brous ntz TO Winter with his
family. He will ox rushed to the Jail
While Mra in 'bs an ch;sesn
be taken care of3
J. C. Davis. thG district attorney of
Sawyer county. sl4 this evening there
we're enough rfSSs opt against Dietz
10 send him to prex1 for the remainder
Of his life. If he convicted.
Battle Wa I'D an Hour.
One thousand shs were fired between
II and 1 o'clock afternoon. John
and Leslie Dietz liked into the trap
set by the deputy. -heriffs. Leslie left
| the cabin to so to the far side of the
clearing for a coss, He had proceeded
about 250 yards s.hen a single shot
was fired at him.% This was followed
by ten or twelve more in rapid sue
/ cession.
crest of the hill :Sn which the cabin
For about 20 feest!she was a fair tar tar.
get for the guns the officers He
/ weakened as he IA, but whether il
/ was from fear or By iuse he was wound
ed cannot be stateE
| John DietZ. when f:ie shooting started
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