Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-10-09
SIX YEARS BATTLE
WAS FINALLY LOST
JOHN F. DIETz sURRENDERs THE
FIGHT FOR HIS IMAGIN-
AIRY RIGHTS.
One Man Was Killed and Four Persons
Were Injured in the Contest.

Winter, Wis, Oct. S.-"If papa comes
out will you promise not to shoot him
He is shot through the hand and wants
TO surrender"
These words spoken to Sheriff Mad
| den made the edge of the clearing.
surrounding the besieged home, by lit
I tie Helen, the youngest daughter Of
John F. Deitz, brought to an end this
afternoon the stubborn resistance OF a
man whose stand for the last six years
against what he considered an injustice
has attracted widespread interest. His
surrender did not come without death
and bloodshed. One man is dead.
three men and a woman wounded and
much property has been destroyed.
The dead man is oscar Harp, age 35. a
deputy sheriff.
The injured are: John F. DeitZ, 40,
defender of Cameron dam, shot through
the hand; Chet Colpitch, 35, deputy
right ear shot off; Clarence Deitz, shot
through the arm; Myra Deitz, shot
through the body, will recover. The
last two named are children of DeitZ,
shot last week by deputies.
Harp was found on a hill behind
Deitz' cabin with a bullet hole in his
head. He. with Mont Wiley, Thomas
Pomart and William Rankin, all depu-
ties, tried to crawl to a place of want
age between lumber piles near DeitZ'
barn when a bullet caught him. Ac
cording to Wiley three bullets whistled
through the air about the same time.
One of them struck Harp. The other
deputies retreated.
Deitz was wounded while firing from
barn during the afternoon, when a
bullet went through a crack and passed
through his left hand DeitZ denied
that the wound caused him to surren
der. Father Joseph Pilon, a priest who
aided in bringing the long drawn out
contest to a close, whispered that d
baby was about to be born to the wife,
and it was feared that both she and
the infant might die.
The surrender of Deitz was dramatic,
the alert lumbermen leaning on their
rifles at the edge of the clearing
gazing intently at the windows of the
log cabin, suddenly saw the flutter OF
white handkerchief at the door. Then
little Helen appeared, advancing with
cloth over her head and walked to
nounced that her father was willing
to surrender.
A short consultation followed be-
tween the sheriff and his deputies.
and Deputy Heffelfinger volunteered
| to go back with the girl. Meantime,
Father Pilon, the priest. in his eager
ness to bring the combat to an end,
started running toward the cabin. He
waved a handkerchief as he ran and
unhesitatingly entered the door.
| When Helen and Heffelfinger got
half way to the cabin, they met the
priest returning. He did not stop,
but hurried on to meet the sheriff.
''Dietz viii surrender" said the priest,
''but he wants doctor to dress his
wounds and 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"
! Madden refused to go to the cabin
and kept behind a tree. Three depu-
! ties and a doctor went to the cabin.
dressed Deitz's wounds and hand
cuffed him, and then brought him
out. Deitz was smiling, spoke cheer
fully to the newspaper men and posed
for several pictures.
"Why didn't you give up yesterday,
when assured of a fair trial by the
attorney general?" he was asked.
"They kept changing their plans, '
he replied, "and 1 did not know what
could be depended upon. Besides,
thought we could have lasted out. and