Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-13
TRAGIC STORY OF DEITZ
 OF CAMERON DAM

bullet r1ddled cabin of tho beaten pioneer after his little daughter had hung up the white flag of surren- der.
 Thorbahn recruited q company of more than fifty of the riff raff of the Sawyer county lumber camps. To each he gave a rifle and all the ammunition he wanted. He drew cordon around the Deitz clearing and allowed no one to go nearer than ten miles from the cabin. No martial law ever was more complete. The town of Winter was patrolled by armed guards night and day. Ayra Deltz was wounded, almost dying, was helpless on a cot in the towns enc poor hotel. Outside her door were two burly guards, guns , across their Fnees. Around the hotel was more guards.
 Neal Battle Ocene- Gradually the lines closed in on the cabin. The cordon was drawn on Monday. On Saturday morning the deputies were conceded tehiri stumns and loqs and stones within 200 feet of the cabin under orders 1 to shoot he first person that cme1g- ed from the door Inside were Les i lie the mother, in a delicate condi- ton. the father. the little lad ana the little girl.
 At the edge of the clearing halt mile away Sheriff Mike Madden lay { behind tree and watched as the sun came up for the first person JJ 1 cone from the little hut. T hope ! it's the old man." he said. Special ! newspaper correspondents from i three states also waited and watch | cd. And finally the door opened. | John Deitz, in his shirt sleeves tall ! erect, innocent of the nearness n. half hundred rifle muzzies, did walk out and walk to his harn and ! then he did cooly stand there and look around. The silence. the sus- Hense the waiting for a heart to ie nut to sleep was intense. 'Why in ! 1ell don't they shoot?" Mike Mad
 en asked. somewhat peeved. 8It
 hev didn't. Bullets waited Tn every direction to speed to him. but TO finger pressed trigger.
 Walks Into Rifles.
 Deitz walked back and entered his home. His sor Leslie then 'apIe ou" 1 The little ones came out The mother
 .ame out. The rifles were silent 1s he grave. Then Leslie stalIel after ! COW. He walked directly toward l two deputies arsbushed behind a | pile of stones. They had to shoot. | With the boy but few paces from | them two rifles blazed in his face. 1 He didn't fall. He turned and ran l for the barn. He ran zig gag. The | rifles parked at his back all the way. 1 He reached a lumber pile, dodged I behind it for a second, then out and or to the barn and to the house.
 The first shots kad been fired. Ths riff raff had uncorked it's cour- | age bottle and the fight was on. 1 From that time dn the guns parked. 1 And they parked back from the cab in.
 The steel bullets tore through the l log cabin. They dipped over those in. sida They flattened against the walls now and then and fell on the floor. John Deitz he'd out.
 Fred Tborbahn had a supply Of dynamite in his military camp. He planned Jo blow up the cottaee and everyone in it if surrender did not come by night Fearing that that might fail he ordered more ammuni. tion for the second days fighting. And il is fact that when the su:. render came at 1 o'clock that after noon there were 10000 cartridges en route to that camp to be used by more than fifty men in the capture of two men, one woman and two chil- dren.
 Heeds wifes Pleading.
 But a bullet struck Deitz ia ons ] arm His wife pleaded with him "a give in The others pleaded. The steady mu.derous song of steel bui lets meant death sooner or later. He gave into his wife, as he said iatc- because of her condition. He was shackled and taken away to jail. During the battle Oscar Harp oeputy, was shot He was one oj me. murderous semi-circIe arouDd tba cabin. John Deitz is being tried for his murder, but those who saw tha thing wonder if tbe death nessen. ger might not have sped from inc rifles Of one of his own companions
 So ended the siege of a week No body wondered, when, gathered fin the telegraph oIice in the Iiftlg l N--~ -NsotAIC 0A LDt peace. me highest legal luminary in the place remarked in a breath that oozes whisky. there is no justice in Win ter"
 Foked Message
 During the week prior to the sur render there had been efforts to secure peaceful surrender. The governor of Wisconsin even sent h;e attorney general and his private sec. retary to the Deitz cabin. The letter they took in to the woodsman pt1r- porting tc be signed by the govern or, was written by a newspaper cor respondent in the hotel in Winter and never was seen by Governor Davidson. Deitz had lost all faith 1 in courts and in most human insti- tutions. 4e believed he was perse- cuted and that every hand was against him. Seven years of fight ing had bred into him that belief. He believed that if he surrendered he would bs shot before he could | be gotten away. He doubted the