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Show tiis Home 'Fenced In,' Man Tries to Wipe Out Family MAPLEWOOD, N. J. Police posted post-ed a guard at the hospital bed of a retired jeweler who, they said, tried to wipe out his entire family because a 130 unit apartment development devel-opment was "fencing in" the 2Vz-: 2Vz-: story frame dwelling he had spent 30 years in beautifying. Police said that Frederick F. Dieter, 76, had signed a statement saying he had shot and killed his son and seriously wounded his wife and daughter-in-law because he was certain his family's privacy and comfort were now at an end and he "didn't want to leave behind anybody any-body I loved." Dieter himself suffered bullet wounds in the head and right hand, the first being the result of what police said was a suicide attempt and the second the climax of a 20 minute gun duel in which his weapon weap-on was shot from his grip. Police Capt. Howard Dowd said that Dieter came out then from the cellar of his home shouting, "Don't hurt me. I'm an old man." |