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Show GOVERNOR COMMUTES SENTENCE OF DiETZ "Hero of Tiornapple Dam" Hay Leave Prison in Four Yean MAMSOX, Wis., Dec. 30. The life term of John A. Dietz, the outlaw of Cameron dam, ronvieted in 1911 of murdering mur-dering Osi'ar Harp, a deputy ehoritf of Sawyer county, "was commuted lo twenty "years today by Governor Mc-Goveru. Mc-Goveru. Under the parole law, Dietz mav now be released in four years. Petitions Pe-titions have been coming in from every state asking fur his pardon. Dietz shot Harp when defending himself him-self against arrest by a posse or deputies dep-uties sent to his cabin ou the Thorn-; apple river. The dam, he nljejjtfd, was the property of Mrs. Dietz, by virtue of a deed to the land surrounding it. Tho courts did not uphold this contention. conten-tion. Still, when the Mississippi river log-wine log-wine companv attempted to take control con-trol of tho dam, Dietz took op his rifle in its defense. He was finally captured, cap-tured, after his cabin hud been riddled j by bullets. |