Blaine County ID Archives News.....BURIAL OF VICTIMS OF THE TRAGEDY November 1, 1915
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Wood River Daily Times November 1, 1915
CAMERON EVIDENTLY DETERMINED TO TAKE HIS WIFE HOME-
Has threatened the D____dest Funeral Ever Seen in Carey- Fired at Least Ten 
Shots
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  The five victims of the tragedy of last Friday night at Carey were buried 
there yesterday afternoon from the beautiful new church just completed at a 
cost of $11,500. Ex Bishop Rawson, First Counselor of the Boise stake, 
conducted the services.
  The funeral called to Carey the biggest crowd ever seen there on any 
occasion, mourners having come from Cassia county, Boise and Southeastern 
Idaho. There was not even standing room in the new edifice, tho the benches 
were not yet in, these being the first services ever held in the church.
  There were four caskets. One was for Mrs. W. H. Cameron and her babe that 
was held in her arms, one contained the body of Mrs. John Adamson, on that of 
John Adamson and one for James Adamson. The interment was in the Carey 
cemetery.
  CAMERON HAD THREATENED TO CAUSE A BIG FUNERAL
  Since his arrest last July and the subsequent filing of a complaint by his 
wife in her suit for a devorce, Cameron repeatedly tried to get his wife to 
return to him. When he finally gave up hope of doing so he told his father-in-
law, John Adamson, that unless his wife returned to him there would be "The 
d___dest funeral ever seen in Carey."
  Friends had vainly endevored to induce Cameron to leave the country in order 
to get away from impending trouble. One of these was Elihu Womack, who worked 
upon him every time that they met and who urged him to just take a blanket, a 
little grub, a few dollars and walk away, leaving everything to his family.
CAMERON LOCKED UP THE HOTEL
  Mr. Womack saw him last Saturday and suspected there would be some action 
soon but could not find out a thing from Cameron. Mr. Womack noticed that all 
the doors of the hotel and even the gate to the stable yard and corral were 
locked, some even pad-locked; but that was natural as no one lived there 
excepting Mr. Cameron and he was away a great deal.
  Since the tragedy Mr. Womack believes that Cameron intended to kill all 
those he did kill, also three other prominent Mormons of Carey and to take his 
wife home. Mr. Womack is led to this opinion  by the fact that the place was 
locked up so throughly that no one could have got in unless Cameron let them 
in, and also by the fact that a stout gag with leather straps was found in his 
pocket. That was probley to gag his wife while he carried her home.
AT LEAST TEN SHOTS FIRED
  Cameron must have fired at least 10 shots. At least five wounds were found 
in John Adamson, four or five in his chest and one in the head. The killing of 
the Cameron baby is supposed to have been accidental as Cameron loved his 
children and fondled them at every opportunity. Probley the demented man did 
not notice the baby in his grandfather's arms.
  The supposition that James Adamson  was killed while on his knees begging 
for mercy is nonsensical. James was playing the piano when he heard the shots 
and as he was a brave man must have grappled with the murder who shot him 
under the chin the bullet coming out through the top of his head. In the 
scuffle Jim's shirt was torn to shreds.
CAMERON WOULD HAVE BEEN HUNG IF ALIVE
  The excitement in Carey when the trgedy happened was intense, many persons 
running to the Adamsons house armed with revolvers or shot guns. It is said 
that even Ed Cameron said that if his brother was not dead he should be hung.
CAMERON A PRESBYTERIAN
  Wm. H. Cameron was born a Presbyterian and he was buried this afternoon from 
the Presbyterian church in Bellevue, the Rev. L. L. Brugman the Methodist 
minister of Hailey, conducting the services.
  The father and mother of the deceased are buried in the Hailey Cemetery; but 
it is in the Southeastern corner, now owned by the Masonic Lodge of Hailey, 
and no lots can be purchased there by non-Masons. Another reason for burial at 
Bellevue is that some members of the Cameron family live there and none lives 
in Hailey.
 

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