Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-15
MILLIONS SIGN FOR DIE1z
Son Of Cameron Dam "outlaw" Walks
1000 Miles and Secures 5000, 900
sieners to Reques. For Fathers
Freedom-Never Begged One Cent.

NeT York oct 15.-After walking
11.02o miles. getting S,o9o.ooc sigma
lures TO petition asking President
Wilson for pardon for his father, and
visiting every state in the union. Les
lie Dietz. son OF John Z. Oietz. known
as the OUTLAW Of Cameron dam, after
ne took arms against the lumber trust
in Wisconsin, crossed last night from
Jersey City to New York and ended a
trip OF twenty two months.
Young Dietz why soft spok en-
man OF 10. with clear blue eyes, looked
the part OF a tramp as far as his
clothes We're concerned. but his man
ner and speech told another story.
Not once in the many months he had
sought ii pardon for his IA tker, who is
serving life term in the federal prison
at Waupnn, Wis. Tor murder, did the
son lose his nerve until ne walked up
cortlandt street toward Broadway.
Then. knowing that mis- long journey
was done. he felt the big petition for
pardon weighing heavily on his hands.
He inquired his way to the postoffice
and the petition was mailed to Presi-
dent Wilson.
Never Begged Cent.
Never in the 1000 mile walk did
Dietz ask charity. When his money
gave out he says he found work and
made enough to carry him on.
A man who wants work can find
it," he said TO reporter for the
World
The petition 10 the president recalls
q lncc
Der "barons" tried to force John +.
Dietz to turn over 10 them his 500
acres OF land near Cameron Dam i'm
the northern part of Wisconsin \
court said trust members owned
and intended to keep 1t.
The family barricaded itself in its
home and fought off posse after posse.
More than one OF the invaders was
shot. John Dietz eyaded arres, for
years.
One day when Leslie Dietz's two
small children were playing near the
barn they were shot and killed by a
party attacking the Dietz home. Their
grandmother ran TO help them and
she too was killed.
y short while afterward Leslie and
his young brother and sister were at
tackled when driving in carriage
along Thornapple river The brother
end sister were severely wounded.
Leslie dashed into the woods and es-
capped.
Revenge For Wife's Killing.
On .AuS. :. 1909. old Dietz, bitter
against the slayers of mis- wife and
grandchildren and against the men
VINO had made him a hunted fugitive
so long. crossed over INTO govern
nlent reservation and killed man
who had been pointed out to him as
the slayer Of his wife. Then he was
arrested. He was tried, and in the fall
of 1910 sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Leslie DietZs wife died Of grief over
the loss of her children. His brother
went south to live, and his sister
married B. Eugene Newman, a moving
picture man of Chicago.
Then the courts decided that we.
not the lumber trust, owned the land
DietZ said last night. so l started
out to get pardon for NY father,
who is now IS years old"
D;.tz iiaa letters to President Will
son from many congressman. and on
his petition is the signature of almost
every governor of the state thru which
he had tramped.
The only work left Cor me now
Dietz said. sis TO take rly lettes to
Washington. How shall go? Why,
walk. After my long tramp trip to
Washington is merely a stroll