Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-06-27

ala, even to signing the affidavit
saying William H. Dietz was the son
OF w. w. Dietz and her daughter.
Mrs. Leanna r. Lewis, fostermoth
e. of William II. Dietz, said that she
was married to William Wallace
Dietz in 1879 and separated from
him in 1888. After a lapse of three
months there was reconciliation
and III the following year she pre-.
pared for motherhood Her husband
had always wanted children and was
greatly joyed when she learned that
q child might be expected.
About the time for confinement
there was. premature birth and he
, child was born dead" testified Mrs.
Lewis. The father took the dead
child and buried it in the timber.
He then said that he had a secret
and told me of the existence of an
other child OF his which he asked
permission to bring home to repIace.
he one that died. | felt that a Child
would be bond between Ms and
consented. He then left and was
gone several days, during whirh my
mother admitted no visitors. When
my husband brought the baby N.
Morgan certified the birth as reg
ular and no one knew the difference
Tor many years preferred 10 have
a child come into the family II thls
way than to go through all of the
publicity and trouble of an adop-
ton"
Mrs. Lewis said the Indian child
was brought to her in red shawl,
which Attorney Winston produced
and entered as an exhibit in the case.
Mrs. Lewis on cross-eXaminaton tOli
OF her later separation from he, hds-
| band, the filing of an action for
dVorce in which she was granted the
custody, OF William II. Lewis as her
own son. She said she loved him as
dearly as if he were her own son
Sally Eagle Horse, fullblooded
Sioux Indian woman from the Pine
Ridge Indian agency in South Dako-
ia, denied that Deitz was her brother
as he had sworn in his draft ques-
| tionnaire.
The contention of the government
was that Deitz in college and later
| has impersonated a dead or missing
Ogallala Sioux named One Star, a
brother of Sally Eagle Horse.
William White Bean, Sioux In
dian from Pine Ridge, emphatically
denied that Lone Star Deitz was a
Sioux or even an Indian.
Dietzs stepmother and an aunt
ard uncle were among the witnesses
who denied his alleged Indian origin
ard professed not to have heard of
any leaning in that direction until
he entered college and later devel-
oped into an Indian football coach
at Washington State College and
elsewhere.
In his opening statement TO the
Jury Attorney Leavy said that the
government expected to prove the
following:
THAT Dietz registered as a non
citizen Indian under the draft act at
Seattle on September u, 1918 and
that his registration card was for
warded to local board OF Spokane;
that afterward QUESTIONABLE was
forwarded TO Dietz in California, and
filled out by him and returned to the
Spokane board in which he claimed
exemption from military service on
four different grounds, as nee
essary government employe, as a man
of technical skill, as the head OF
necessary industrial enterprise ahC
as an Indian who was not cltlZeh
that Dietz claimed to have been DOTH
on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation
and gave as his nearest relative Sal
" Eagle Horse, Sioux Indian; ina
hie parents were born In the Daho
tas; that while his name appeared Oh
the government rolls as One star ht
had used the title Lone Star; tha'
I he claimed to have left the reserVa,
ton 2s years ago and had returned
thereafter at intermittent PERIODS
but had not been back for 10 years
eve will show that Dietz was MOI
noncitizen Indian, that he was no'
born on the Pine Ridge Indian reSef'
cation. but was born of white par