Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-11-27
|hA0MAN IS KILLED.
COUNTRY TERRoRlzED az 20.
CAPPED LUNATic WHO DANGER.
oUsLY WOUNDS BOYS.
rs OoRNERED IN BURN.

Flights to End, Seeking Death Of Of.
hcers-Victlm May Die-Hap
pens at hamel,
MIMI,
Hamel, Mimi, Nov. 25.-A strange
man on horseback shot and wounded
two persons near here, terrorizing the
whole countryside land then succeed.
ed in escaping for time. A posse.
headed by Sheriff Otto Langum and
= halfdozen of his deputies secured
the surrounding territory finally cap
turing the desperate or maniac
The Wounded.
The wounded are Matt Lenzen, 26
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 8
o'clock. Mrs. Lenzen's back was to-
ward the window. Suddenly revol-
yer shot rang out and the ping" of
2 bullet was heard by Mrs. Lenzen.
Six more shots followed in rapid sue
cession and the mother saw both her
pons 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 man 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
once more the desperate started of
on 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 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 as
be 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 telephoned
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 one struck him glanc
lngly on the right temple, and both
arms were wounded in the fusilade oil
the mad rider. The younger boy has
bullet in the calf of his right leg.
DR.. Aubin said:
"The condition of the older boy ii
very serious. He, may not live"
). Doctor Captures Horse.
, On his way to the Lenzen home DR.
{ Aubin saw riderless horse and cap
! tured it. 1t is undoubtedly the horse
ridden by the desperado, abandoned
shortly after he met the party of girls
on the road.
Sheriff Langum and his deputie.
made rapid auto ride to the scene O.
the shooting.
The man was found in a barn OF
I the farm Of his father by the sheriff,
posse and the barn was surrounded
by deputies and farmers we'll armed
. The cornered man held the officers q
bay with rifle. The mans name wa!
Henry Poker and he is an escaped
. maniac from the Rochester asylum
according to reports. He is 26 year.
old and was taken to Rochester las
, spring, being captured after terrif
? struggle. He is said. to have set fir,
, to number of barns in the vicinit,
at that time. which led to his captur
, as lunatic. Neighbors say he ma,
, have borne a grudge against Lenzens
> The mailman was finally shot an,
, killed in rifle duel with deputy she,
Ifs. Deputy John Wall fired tn
shots which ended the life of the in
furiated maniac. From his hidin
place in the barn Poker say Wall an
Deputy Joe Schutta take a stand il
q nearby shed. After while he RAJ
out of the barn and with string q
i. oaths on his lips made for the shei
? rife in hand. He fired three times q
, the deputies, but missed Wallis frs
. shot missed, so did Schutta's The
> Wall, with revolver, shot the ma
man twice, the bullets causing il
stant death.
Physician Arrested.
st. Paul, Minn-Doctor Geore
Lemke, Minneapolis physician, wit
offices at COS Lincoln building, wa
arrested by George H. Drake, posts