The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-13
JOHN DIETz GIVES UP
FIGHT WITH The LAW
Wisconsin OUTLAW, After Long
Battle With Officers, Surrend-
ers Himself.

- $1,000 " Aai y 49, zap SSiAASa
out will you promise not to shoot himf
He Is shot through the hand and wants to
surrender" These words spoken to Sher-
if Mike Madden at the endge of the clear
ing surrounding the besieged home by lit
tie Helen, youngest daughter of JOHN f.
DietZ, brought to an end Saturday after
noon the stubborn resistance of the man
whose stand for the last six years against
what he considered injustice has attracted
widespread interest.
The surrender did not come, however,
without death and bloodshed. One man Is
dead, five men and a woman are wounded
and much property has been destroyed.
The dead:
OSCAR HARP. IS years old, deputy
sheriff.
The injured:
eron dam, shot through the hand.
Che Colepuch, aged So, deputy, right
ear shot off.
Leslie Dietz, injured in hip.
Clarence Dietz. shot through arm.
Myra Dietz, shot through the body; will
recover.
The last two named, children of John
Dietz, were shot the previous week by
deputies.
Bullet Hole in Head.
Harp was found on a hill beyond the
DietZ cabin with a bullet hole in his head.
He, with Mont Wiley, Thomas Pomerio
and William Rankin, all deputies. had
tried to crawl to a place of vantage in the
lumber piles near the Ditz barn when a
well directed bullet caught him. Accord
ing to Wiley three bullets whistled
through the air at about the same time
and one of them struck Harp. The other
deputies reiterated without trying to rescue
their comrade. He was found at $3.50
o'clock and had been dead about three
hours.
Ditz was not wounded during the morn
ing fusillade, as had been supposed. His
drop to the ground was merely a ruse to
fool the deputies. He was injured, how
ever, while firing from the barn during the
afternoon when a bullet went through
a crack and passed through his left hand.
Dietz denied that the wound caused him
to surrender.
TIC Father Joseph Pition, the priest, who
was largely instrumental in bringing the
long drawn out contest to a close, he
whispered that a baby was about to be
born to his wife and he feared that both
she and the infant might die.
Little Girl Approaches.
The surrender of Dietz was very dra-
matte. The alert lumbermen, leaning on
their rifles at the edge of the clearing and
gazing intently at the windows Of the log
cabin, suddenly saw the futter of a white
handkerchief at the door. Then little
| t1Plel appeared anu ADVANCING Will the
cloth over her head walked to the edge
of the clearing, where she announced that
her father was willing to surrender.
A short consultation followed between
the sheriff and his deputies, and Deputy
Heffelfinger volunteered to go back with
the girl. In the meantime Father Pition,
in his eagerness to bring the combat tc
an end, had started running toward the
cabin. He waived a handkerchief as he
ran and unhesitatingly entered the door
When Heffelfinger got half way the prizes
was returning. He did not stop, but hur.
ried to meet the sheriff.
Priest as intercessor.
"Dietz will surrender said the priest
but he wants a doctor to dress his
wounds and he desires to talk with the
newspaper men"
Il won't trust him." said the sheriff. I'll
he wants to surrender let him come out
with his hands over his head
Sheriff Madden refused to go to the cab
in and kept behind a tree. Deputie:
Thornbahn, Sully, EIeffelfnger and DR.
D.. G.. F. Grofton, of Sayward, went to the
cabin, dressed Dietz's wound, handcuffet
him and Leslie brought them out. Diets
left hand was in a sling and he was smil.
ing and spoke cheerfully to the newspaper
men. He posed for several pictures.
why didn't you give in when assured
of a fair trial by the attorney general?'
he was asked.
They kept on changing their plans,'' he
replied, land L did not know what / coult
depend upon. Besides, we thought we
could have lasted it out, n we coult
have but for the little baby we expected
I am now glad it is over. We have livec
all right, You might go into the house
though, and see what W. have to stand"
j. c. Davis, district attorney of Sawyer
county, said there were enough warrants
out against Dietz to send him to prison
for the rest of his life if he was convicted