The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-10-09
De | I I CIV { S
HIMSELF Up
I Q 7 H T:
POSSE
Dramatic Scene When the De-
fender Of Cameron Dam Sur
renders to the Sheriff.
LITTLE DAUGHTER ACTS
As PEACE EMISARY
One Man Is Dead and -Four Re
ceive Painful Injuries Dur
ing the Siege.

WINTER, Wis, Oct. S-"lf papa
comes out. will you promise not 10
shoot him? He Is shot through the
hand and wants TO sur. enGcr
These words, spoken TO Sheriff Mike
Madden at tine edge oi the clearing
surrounding the besieGed home by H.
tie Helen youngest daughter OF John
F Deltz. brought 10 an end this ait
ernOou the stubborn resistance of the
man whose stand for the last SIX
years against what he considered IN
Justice has been OF widespread inter
est
Tne surrender did not come with
out death and boodsbed. One man
is dead, three men and woman are
wounded. and much property has been
destroyed
The Dead and Injured.
The dead:
OSCAR HARP, 80, deputy sheriff.
The Injured:
John F. Deitz, 40, defender OF Cam.
eron Dam; shot through the hand
Chet Colepltch. 50, deputy sheriff;
right car shot off.
Clarence Deitz. shot through arm.
will recover.
The last TWO named are children
| OF John Deitz. AMI were shot last
week by deputies
Found With Bullet Hole in-Head.-
Harp was found on hill behind
the Deitz cabin with a bullet hole
! In his head He, with Mont Wiley.
| Thomas PomcUclo and William Ran
kiH. all deputies, had tried TO crawl
! to a place of vantage in the lumber
! piles near the Deitz farm, when a bull
let caught him According to Wiley
three bullets whistled through the air
at about the same time, and one of
them struck Harp. The other deputies
retreated. Deitz was wounded while
firing from the barn during the art
crnoon, when Il bullet went through
crack and passed through his left
| hand.
Surrender Was Dramatic,
DeitZ denied that the wound caused
| him TO surrender To Father Joseph
| Pilon, a priest who aided In bringing
the long drawn out contest to q close.
he whispered that a baby was about
! to be born to his wife and he feared
that both she and the infant might
die.
The surrender OF Deltz was dramat.
| ic The alert lumbermen, leaning on
their rifles at the edge oil the clear
ing, and gazing intently ct the log
cabin, suddenly saw the fluttering of
| white handkerchief at the door
| Then little Helen appeared and. ad-
vnnclng with the cloth over her head
walked To the edge Of the clearing
where she announced that her father
was willing to surrender
Priest Goes 10 Cabin.
A short consultation follG|ed be
tween the sheriff and his deputies,
and Deputy Ilcffelfnger volunteered
to go back with the girl In the
meantime Father Pilon. priest, In his
eagerncsS 10 bring the combat to an
end, had started running toward the
cabin
He waved a handkerchief as he ran
and unhesitatngly entered the door.
When Helen and Heffelinger got half
way to the cabin they met the priest
returning He did not stop, but hur-
ried on TO meet the sheriff.
Wanted to Talk With Newspaper
! Men.
"Deitz will surrender" said the
priest. but he wants a doctor 10
dress his wounds and he desires TO
talk with the newspaper men"
The sheriff said:
IF he wants to surrender let him
come out with his hands over his
head "
Sheriff Madden refused to go TO the
cabin and kept behind a tree Depu'
tieB Thornbahn, Sully. HeffelGnGer
and DR. d. c. F. Grafton. of Hayward
went to the cabin, dressed Deitz'S
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