The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-29
MADMAN IS KILLED
COUNTRY TERRoRIzED BY Es-
CAPPED LUNATIc WHO DANGER
oUSLY WOUNDS BOYS.
is CORNERED IN BURN.
Fights to End, Seeking Death Of Of
Hcers-vlctim May Dfe-Hap
pens at Hanei,
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T1dIHel, Mlnn., NOV. Z6.-A strange
man on horseback shot and wounded
W persons near here, terrorizfng the
whole countryside and then succeed
ed in escaping for a time. A posse
headed by Sherf& Otto Langum and
a ~half-dozen of his deputies secured
the surrounding territory finally cap.
turing the desperate or maniac.
The Wounded.
The wounded are Matt Lenzen, rs
years old, and his brother, Leonard
Lenzen, Jr., 10 years old.
The elder Lenzen has four revolver
wounds and his life is despaired of
The younger Lenzen was hit but
once and his condition is not belived
serious.
Shots Fired Through Window.
The two Lenzen boys were gathered
around the kitchen stove, talking with
their mother Friday evening at 9
o'clock. Mrs. Lenzen's back was to.
ward the window. Suddenly a revol.
yer shot rang out and the ping" OF
a bullet was heard by Mrs. Lenzen,
Six more shots followed in rapid sue
cession and the mother saw both her
sons lying desperately wounded on
the floor in front of her. All seven
shots had been fired through the win.
dow.
Desperate Chases Her.
Mrs. Lenzen ran screaming from the
house. She saw a mounted mar rid.
Ing rapidly away. When he heard her
screams he turned his horse and gal.
loped back toward the house. Shout.
Ing and shooting in the air, he threat
ened Mrs. Lenzen until the frantic
woman ran back into her home. Then
on a gallop.
Riding east from the Lenzen home,
which Is about a mile and a quarter
from the village of Hamel, he en-.
countered on the road a party of young
girls returning to their homes from a
neighboring festivity.
According to the accounts given by
the girls, the man rode up to them,
shouted, and fired his revolver in the
air several times, then, as crafty az
he had appeared, he disappeared down
the road, leaving the terrified girls
shaking with fear. He made no at.
tempt to modest them.
Mother Shows Bravery.
Frightened back into the house by
the maniac, when she would have Sc.
cured help, Mrs. Lenzen bravely ran
out again shortly afterward and sum
moned DR.. A. Aubin, who lives nearby.
The physician Immediately te%lephoned
Sheriff Langum, then took the wound.
ed boys in his automobile to st,
Mary's hospital In Minneapolis.
One in Critical Condition.
Matt Lenzen is in a critical condi
ton. He has a bullet in his right
lung, another n struck him glanc
ingly on the right temple, and both
arms were wounded in the fusilade OF
the mad rider. The younger boy has
a bullet in the calf of his right leg.
DR.. Aubin said:
"The condition Of the older boy is
very serious. He may not live"
Doctor Captures Horse.
On his way to the Lenzen home DR.
Aubin saw a riderless horse and cap
tured it. 1t is undoubtedly the horse
ridden by the desperate, abandoned
shortly after he met the party of girls
on the road.
Sheriff Langum and his deputies
made a rapid auto ride to the scene Of
the shooting.
The man was found in a barn or
the farm of his father by the sheriff's
posse and the barn was surrounded
by deputies and farmers well armed
The cornered man held the officers al
bay with a rifle. The mans name was
Henry Poker and he is an escaped
maniac from the Rochester asylum
according to reports. He is 26 years
old and was taken to Rochester last
spring, being captured after a terrific
struggle. He is said to have set fire
to a number of barns in the vicinity
at that time, which led to his capture
as a lunatic. Neighbors say he may
have borne a grudge against Lenzens
The mailman was finally shot ant
killed in a rifle duel with deputy sher
IFS. Deputy John Wall fired the
shots which ended the life of the in
furiated maniac. From his hidins
place in the barn Poker say Wall ant
Deputy Joe Schutta take a stand il
a nearby shed. After a while he rar
out of the barn and with a string o.
oaths on his lips made for the shed
rifle in hand. He fired three times a
the deputies, but missed Wallis frs
shot missed, so did Schutta's Their
Wall, with a revolver, shot the mao
nan twice, the bullets causing in
slant death