(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, August 18, 1940, Page 1 and 7)
Domestic difficulties were blamed for the Friday night murder and suicide which took the lives of Mrs. Irene Dietz, 27, and her 29-year-old estranged husband, Richard Dietz.
Dietz, unemployed oilfield worker, is reported to have shot Mrs. Dietz through the left temple and twice in her right hip in front of the Yaunts Hotel in Stinnett shortly after 11 o'clock Friday night. She died about an hour later in a Borger hospital.
Sheriff Vern Underhill and his deputies, believing that Dietz might have gone to Stinnett depot to hop the midnight freight train, went to the station just as the train pulled in and found his body slumped at the northeast corner of the depot door.
He was brought to a Borger hospital, with a bullet wound which pierced his left temple and came out above his right ear. He died at noon Saturday.
The funeral services of Mrs. Ditez [sic] will be held this afternoon at three o'clock in the First Baptist church of Stinnett. Burial will be at Plemons.
Mrs. Deitz [sic] is survived by an 11-year-old son, Edwin Churchill, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sessions of Stinnett, a number of brothers and sisters and a host of other relatives.
Arrangements for Dietz are pending arrival of relatives. Both bodies are at the Powell Funeral Home.
Ditez [sic] late Friday night went to Faye's Cafe, where Mrs. Dietz was employed and asked Joan Stutler, about 8, to call Mrs. Dietz outside for him. Joan complied, and started back into the building, when she hear the shots.
As Mrs. Dietz fell to the ground she said, “Don’t worry, Joan, everything’s all right” and then lost consciousness.
The Dietzes had been separated about two months. Mrs. Dietz had Dietz placed under a peace bond shortly before the primary election, according to authentic reports but later had the bond lifted.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, August 18, 1940, Page 7)
His ambulance was badly wrecked but Perry Powell was not injured when his vehicle overturned at the top of the south Riverview hill about 12:30 o’clock Friday night, on route to Stinnett. Robert Wells, who accompanied Powell, also escaped unhurt.
The two had made one call to Stinnett, where they brought Mrs. Arlene [sic] Dietz to the Borger hospital, and were going back on a second call to get Dietz.
At the top of the hill they encountered a heavy rain, forcing Powell to drive with his head out of the window in order to see the road. The right wheel of the ambulance slipped off into a soft shoulder of mud, and the big vehicle slipped and skidded about a hundred yards before turning over one and a half times.
Powell and Wells climbed out through the left window. Hubert Allen and Bobby Estep brought Wells to Borger, and the latter got the second Powell ambulance, returned to the scene of their mishap, picked up Powell, and the two completed their call to Stinnett.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Monday, August 19, 1940, Page 1)
The body of Richard Dietz, who died at noot [sic] Saturday after a Friday night shooting at Stinnett, in which Dietz killed his estranged wife, Irene Dietz, before committing suicide, was sent yesterday afternoon to Tucumcari, N.M., for last rites tomorrow afternoon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dietz were held yesterday afternoon in the First Baptist church in Stinnett, with Powell Funeral Home in charge.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
Domestic difficulties were blamed for the Friday night murder and suicide which took the lives of Mrs. Irene Dietz, 27, and her 29-year-old estranged husband, Richard Dietz.
Dietz, unemployed oilfield worker, is reported to have shot Mrs. Dietz through the left temple and twice in her right hip in front of the Yaunts Hotel in Stinnett shortly after 11 o'clock Friday night. She died about an hour later in a Borger hospital.
Sheriff Vern Underhill and his deputies, believing that Dietz might have gone to Stinnett depot to hop the midnight freight train, went to the station just as the train pulled in and found his body slumped at the northeast corner of the depot door.
He was brought to a Borger hospital, with a bullet wound which pierced his left temple and came out above his right ear. He died at noon Saturday.
The funeral services of Mrs. Ditez [sic] will be held this afternoon at three o'clock in the First Baptist church of Stinnett. Burial will be at Plemons.
Mrs. Deitz [sic] is survived by an 11-year-old son, Edwin Churchill, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sessions of Stinnett, a number of brothers and sisters and a host of other relatives.
Arrangements for Dietz are pending arrival of relatives. Both bodies are at the Powell Funeral Home.
Ditez [sic] late Friday night went to Faye's Cafe, where Mrs. Dietz was employed and asked Joan Stutler, about 8, to call Mrs. Dietz outside for him. Joan complied, and started back into the building, when she hear the shots.
As Mrs. Dietz fell to the ground she said, “Don’t worry, Joan, everything’s all right” and then lost consciousness.
The Dietzes had been separated about two months. Mrs. Dietz had Dietz placed under a peace bond shortly before the primary election, according to authentic reports but later had the bond lifted.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, August 18, 1940, Page 7)
His ambulance was badly wrecked but Perry Powell was not injured when his vehicle overturned at the top of the south Riverview hill about 12:30 o’clock Friday night, on route to Stinnett. Robert Wells, who accompanied Powell, also escaped unhurt.
The two had made one call to Stinnett, where they brought Mrs. Arlene [sic] Dietz to the Borger hospital, and were going back on a second call to get Dietz.
At the top of the hill they encountered a heavy rain, forcing Powell to drive with his head out of the window in order to see the road. The right wheel of the ambulance slipped off into a soft shoulder of mud, and the big vehicle slipped and skidded about a hundred yards before turning over one and a half times.
Powell and Wells climbed out through the left window. Hubert Allen and Bobby Estep brought Wells to Borger, and the latter got the second Powell ambulance, returned to the scene of their mishap, picked up Powell, and the two completed their call to Stinnett.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Monday, August 19, 1940, Page 1)
The body of Richard Dietz, who died at noot [sic] Saturday after a Friday night shooting at Stinnett, in which Dietz killed his estranged wife, Irene Dietz, before committing suicide, was sent yesterday afternoon to Tucumcari, N.M., for last rites tomorrow afternoon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dietz were held yesterday afternoon in the First Baptist church in Stinnett, with Powell Funeral Home in charge.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, August 18, 1940, Page 1 and 7)
Domestic difficulties were blamed for the Friday night murder and suicide which took the lives of Mrs. Irene Dietz, 27, and her 29-year-old estranged husband, Richard Dietz.
Dietz, unemployed oilfield worker, is reported to have shot Mrs. Dietz through the left temple and twice in her right hip in front of the Yaunts Hotel in Stinnett shortly after 11 o'clock Friday night. She died about an hour later in a Borger hospital.
Sheriff Vern Underhill and his deputies, believing that Dietz might have gone to Stinnett depot to hop the midnight freight train, went to the station just as the train pulled in and found his body slumped at the northeast corner of the depot door.
He was brought to a Borger hospital, with a bullet wound which pierced his left temple and came out above his right ear. He died at noon Saturday.
The funeral services of Mrs. Ditez [sic] will be held this afternoon at three o'clock in the First Baptist church of Stinnett. Burial will be at Plemons.
Mrs. Deitz [sic] is survived by an 11-year-old son, Edwin Churchill, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sessions of Stinnett, a number of brothers and sisters and a host of other relatives.
Arrangements for Dietz are pending arrival of relatives. Both bodies are at the Powell Funeral Home.
Ditez [sic] late Friday night went to Faye's Cafe, where Mrs. Dietz was employed and asked Joan Stutler, about 8, to call Mrs. Dietz outside for him. Joan complied, and started back into the building, when she hear the shots.
As Mrs. Dietz fell to the ground she said, “Don’t worry, Joan, everything’s all right” and then lost consciousness.
The Dietzes had been separated about two months. Mrs. Dietz had Dietz placed under a peace bond shortly before the primary election, according to authentic reports but later had the bond lifted.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, August 18, 1940, Page 7)
His ambulance was badly wrecked but Perry Powell was not injured when his vehicle overturned at the top of the south Riverview hill about 12:30 o’clock Friday night, on route to Stinnett. Robert Wells, who accompanied Powell, also escaped unhurt.
The two had made one call to Stinnett, where they brought Mrs. Arlene [sic] Dietz to the Borger hospital, and were going back on a second call to get Dietz.
At the top of the hill they encountered a heavy rain, forcing Powell to drive with his head out of the window in order to see the road. The right wheel of the ambulance slipped off into a soft shoulder of mud, and the big vehicle slipped and skidded about a hundred yards before turning over one and a half times.
Powell and Wells climbed out through the left window. Hubert Allen and Bobby Estep brought Wells to Borger, and the latter got the second Powell ambulance, returned to the scene of their mishap, picked up Powell, and the two completed their call to Stinnett.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Monday, August 19, 1940, Page 1)
The body of Richard Dietz, who died at noot [sic] Saturday after a Friday night shooting at Stinnett, in which Dietz killed his estranged wife, Irene Dietz, before committing suicide, was sent yesterday afternoon to Tucumcari, N.M., for last rites tomorrow afternoon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dietz were held yesterday afternoon in the First Baptist church in Stinnett, with Powell Funeral Home in charge.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
Domestic difficulties were blamed for the Friday night murder and suicide which took the lives of Mrs. Irene Dietz, 27, and her 29-year-old estranged husband, Richard Dietz.
Dietz, unemployed oilfield worker, is reported to have shot Mrs. Dietz through the left temple and twice in her right hip in front of the Yaunts Hotel in Stinnett shortly after 11 o'clock Friday night. She died about an hour later in a Borger hospital.
Sheriff Vern Underhill and his deputies, believing that Dietz might have gone to Stinnett depot to hop the midnight freight train, went to the station just as the train pulled in and found his body slumped at the northeast corner of the depot door.
He was brought to a Borger hospital, with a bullet wound which pierced his left temple and came out above his right ear. He died at noon Saturday.
The funeral services of Mrs. Ditez [sic] will be held this afternoon at three o'clock in the First Baptist church of Stinnett. Burial will be at Plemons.
Mrs. Deitz [sic] is survived by an 11-year-old son, Edwin Churchill, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sessions of Stinnett, a number of brothers and sisters and a host of other relatives.
Arrangements for Dietz are pending arrival of relatives. Both bodies are at the Powell Funeral Home.
Ditez [sic] late Friday night went to Faye's Cafe, where Mrs. Dietz was employed and asked Joan Stutler, about 8, to call Mrs. Dietz outside for him. Joan complied, and started back into the building, when she hear the shots.
As Mrs. Dietz fell to the ground she said, “Don’t worry, Joan, everything’s all right” and then lost consciousness.
The Dietzes had been separated about two months. Mrs. Dietz had Dietz placed under a peace bond shortly before the primary election, according to authentic reports but later had the bond lifted.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Sunday, August 18, 1940, Page 7)
His ambulance was badly wrecked but Perry Powell was not injured when his vehicle overturned at the top of the south Riverview hill about 12:30 o’clock Friday night, on route to Stinnett. Robert Wells, who accompanied Powell, also escaped unhurt.
The two had made one call to Stinnett, where they brought Mrs. Arlene [sic] Dietz to the Borger hospital, and were going back on a second call to get Dietz.
At the top of the hill they encountered a heavy rain, forcing Powell to drive with his head out of the window in order to see the road. The right wheel of the ambulance slipped off into a soft shoulder of mud, and the big vehicle slipped and skidded about a hundred yards before turning over one and a half times.
Powell and Wells climbed out through the left window. Hubert Allen and Bobby Estep brought Wells to Borger, and the latter got the second Powell ambulance, returned to the scene of their mishap, picked up Powell, and the two completed their call to Stinnett.
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(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Monday, August 19, 1940, Page 1)
The body of Richard Dietz, who died at noot [sic] Saturday after a Friday night shooting at Stinnett, in which Dietz killed his estranged wife, Irene Dietz, before committing suicide, was sent yesterday afternoon to Tucumcari, N.M., for last rites tomorrow afternoon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dietz were held yesterday afternoon in the First Baptist church in Stinnett, with Powell Funeral Home in charge.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
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