The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-11-28
MADMAN K|lLED|N
. REVOLVER BATTLE
COUNTRY TERRoRlzEo BY Es.
CAPPED LUNATlc WHO DANGER.
oUsLY WOUNDS BOYS,
Is CoRNERED IN BURN,
Flights to End, Seeking Death Of OF.
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man on horseback shot and wounded
two persons near here, terrorizing the
whole countryside and then succeed.
ed In escaping for a time. A posse,
headed by Sheriff Otto Langum and
q half-dozen of his deputies secured
the surrounding territory finally cap.
turing the desperate or maniac.
The Wounded.
h wounded. are Matt Leuzen, 2k
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 I.enzen 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
heir mother Friday evening at 9
O'CLOCK. Mrs. Lenzen's back was to.
a r 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.
cess1on 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.
MIS-. Lenzen ran screaming from the
u 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 on
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 as
ne 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 a
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 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
q bullet in the calf of his right leg. :
Doctor Captures Horse. j.;
On his way to the Lenzen home DR..
Aubin saw a riderless horse and capi
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 deputies
made a rapid auto ride to the scene of
the shooting.
The man was found in a barn on
the farm of his father by the sheriff's
posse and the barn was surrounded
by deputies and farmers we'll armed.
The cornered nan held the officers at
bay with a rifle. The mans lame 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 tine, which led to his capture
as a lunatic. %Neighbors say ne M
have borne a erudge against l.enzens.
The madInan was (iualIy shot and
killed In a rifle duet with deputy sher-
lifts. Deputy John Vail fired the
shots which ended the life OF the In.
furiated maniac. From his hiding
place in the barn Poker say Wall and
Deputy Joe Schutta take a stand in
a nearby shed. After a while he ran
out of the barn and with a string of
oaths on his. lips made for the shed.
rife in hand. He fired three times at
the deputies, but missed Walls first
shot missed. so did Schutta's Then
Wall, with a revolver. shot the mad
man twice, the bullets causing in.
slant death.