Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-09
Long Drawn Out Conflict Comes to
a Dramatic End
Little Daughter Helen Bears News
of His Intentions to Officers
Expected Arrival of Stork puts Sud-
den End to HOStilitieS
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49, {: :: :: :: I: :: :: = :: :. {: : : :: :
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:. The Dead. =
:: Oscar Harp, 35 years of age, :
*deputy. :
: Injured: John Dietz, 49 years :
: odd, defender of Cameron dam, ::
:: shot through hand. :"
:. Chet Colepitch, 35 years old, =
= right ear shot off. :.
:: William Rankin, age %, ear :
::grazed by bullet :
:: Clarance DietZ shot through arm. =
:Myra Dietz, shot through body, :
:: will recover. The last two named =
: children of John Detz, were shot =
:: last week by deputies. ::
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Winter, WIS.,, Oct 8.-The Dietz
family was brought to Winter in an
automobile, but John Dietz and his
son, Leslie, were taken to Hayward
the county seat, almost Immediately
for safe keeping Mrs. Dietz and
children were taken to hotel for
supper, as they had not eaten bite
since morning. Mrs. Dietz broke down
and weepingly asked the reporters to
say that she and the children didn't
fire shot. "If l hadn't argued and
argued with John we would all have
been killed before morning" She
said. Mrs. Dietz, is under arrest with
Leslie on warrants Of four years
standing charging assault with in
tent to commit murder. Mrs. Dietz
was also taken to Hayward tonight.
The small children will be taken care
of by friends.
STORY OF THE CAPTURE.
IF papa comes out will you prom
Use not to shoot him? He is shot
throught the rand and wants to sur
surrender"
These words, spoken to Sheriff
Mike Madden at the edge Of the clear
insg surrounding the besieged home,
by little Helen, youngest daughter of
John F. Dietz, brought to an end this
afternoon the stubborn resistance of
the man whose brave stand for the
last six years against what he con-
sidered injustice has attracted wide
spread interest. The surrender did
not come, however, without death and
bloodshed. One ma n is dead, four
men and woman are wounded and
much property has been destroyed.
Harp's Body Found.
The body of Harp was found on a
hill behind the Dietz cabin with a
bullet hole in his head, He with
Mont Wiley, Tom Pomerlo and Will
am Rankin, all deputies, had tried to
crawl to a place of advantage in the
lumber piles near the Dietz barn
when we'll directed bullet caught
him. According to Wiley, three bull
lets whistled through the air at about
the same time, and one of them hit !
Harp. The other deputies retreated
without trying to rescue their COM
rade. He was found at $3.50 o'clock |
and had been dead about three hours. |
Wounding Of Dietz.
Dietz had not been wounded in the |
morning fusisllade as had been sup /
posed. His drop to the ground was
merely ruse to fool the deputies. He
was injured, however, while firing
from the barn during the afternoon
when bullet went through a crack
and passed through his left hand.
Dietz denies that the wound caused
him to surrender.
Real Cause of Surrender.
To Father Joseph Pilon, the priest
who was largely instrumental in
bringing the long-drawn out contest to
a close, he whispered that baby was
about to be born to his wife and he
feared that both she and the infant
might die. The surrender of Dietz
was very dramatic. The alert lumb-
ermen leaning on their rifles at the
edge of the clearing, and gazing in
tently at the windows of the log cabin,
suddenly saw a flutter of white
at the door. Then lit
tie Helen appeared and advancing
with the cloth over her head, walked
to the edge of the clearing where she
announced that her papa was willing
to surrender.
Consultation Of Officers.
A short consultation followed be-
tween the sheriff and his deputies and
deputy Heffelfinger volunteered to go
back with the girl. In the meantime
Father Pilon, in his eagerness to bring
the combat to an end, had started
running toward the cabin. He wav.: