The Oakes times., 1912-11-28
MADMAN KILLED IN
/: AREv0LvER BATTLE.
COUNTRY TERRoRlzED BY Es
CAPPED LUNATIc WHO DANGER.
OUSLY WOUNDS BOYS.
Is CORNERED IN BURN
Fights to End, Seeking Death of OF.
f1cers-Vctim May Die-Hap
pens at Hamel,
= MINI

Hamel Mimi, Nov. 25.--A strange
man on horseback shot and wounded
two persons near here. terrorizine the
whole countryside and then succeed
ed in escaping for a time a posse
headed by Sheriff Otto I.angum and
half-dozen of his deputies secured
the surrounding territory finally cap.
turing the desperate or maniac.
The Wounded.
The wounded are Matt LenZcn, %
years old. and his brother, Leonard
LenZen, Jr., 10 years old
The elder LenZcn has four revolver
wounds and his life is despaired of
The younger 1.enzen was hit but
Dnce and his condition is not bclived
serious.
Shots Fired Through Window.
The two LenZen boys were gathered
around the kitchen stove. talking with
their mother Friday evening at 8
o'clock. Mrs. Lenzen's back was to.
ward the window. Suddenly a revol.
yer shot rang out and the ping" of
bullet was heard by Mrs. Lcnzen.
Blk more shots followed in rapid sue.
cesslon 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 mounted man rid.
Ing rapidly awav When he heard her
screams he turned his horse and gal
Ioped back toward the house. Shout.
Ing and shooting in the air. he threat
ened Mrs. LenZen until thr frantic
woman ran back into her home Then
once more the desperate started off
ON a gallop.
Riding east from the IenZen home,
which is about d mile and Il quarter
from the village of lIamel, he en-.
countered on the road a party of young
girls returning to their homes from a
peghboring festivty.
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 crazily as
he had appeared. he disappeared down
the road, leaving the terrified girls
shaking with fear. He made no at
tempt to molest them.
Mother Shows Bravery.
Frightened back into the house by
the maniac. when she would have Sc.
cured help. Mrs. Lcnzen bravely ran
out again shortly afterward and sum.
moned Dr. A. Aubin who lives nearby.
The physician Immediately telephoned
Sheriff Langum. then took the wound
ed boys in his automobile TO st.
Marys hospital in Minneapolis.
One in Critical Condition
Matt Lenzen is in critical condi.
zion. He has bullet in his right
lung, another one struck him glanc.
1ngly on the right temple, and both
arms were wounded in the fusilade OF
the mad rider. The younger boy has
bullet in the calf OF his right leg.
Doctor Captures Horse.
On his way to the Lenzen home DR.,
Aubin saw a riderless horse and cap.
tured 1t. 1t is undoubtedly the horse
ridden by the desperate. abandoned
shortly after he met the party Of girls
on the road.
Sheriff l-angum and his deputies
made rapid auto ride to the scene of
the shooting
The man was found in barn on
the farm OF his father by the sheriff 8
posse and the barn was surrounded
by deputies and farmers we'll armed.
The cornered man held the officers at
bay with 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 number of barns in the vicinity
at that time, which led to his capture
as lunatic. Neighbors say he may
have borne a grudge against Lenzens
The madman was finally shot and
killed in rifle duel with deputy sher
Ifs Deputy John Wall fired the
Bhots which ended the life of the in
fuhated maniac. From his hiding
place in the barn Poker say Wall and
Deputy Joe Schutta take a stand ir
nearby shed. After a while he rar
out of the barn and with string o
oaths on his lips made for the shed
rife in hand. He fired three times a
the deputies. but missed Wallis frs
shot missed. so did Schutta's Ther
Wall, with a revolver. shot the mat
man twice, the bullets causing i,
stant death.