The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-19
A Big Surprise.


was sprung upon the defense in the e.
B. & Q. dynamite case to-day. John
Wilson, one of the prisoners who was
arrested with Broderick and Bowles as
an srch-conspirator and as Brother
hood engineer, coolly left his seat in
the group of which Broderick and
Bauereisn were members and walked
over to the side of the room where the
prosecuting attorney sat. Wilson took
a chair beside Mr.. Dawes, attorney for
the Burlington company. and began to
chat in friendly manner. Then it was
developed that Wilson was not an en-
gineer, not a Brotherhood man and
not even Wilson. His name is John
Mulligan, and he is Pinkerton detec
tive; and not only is this the case. but
IL appears that he has had the conf
denoe of all the prisoners and their at
| tOrneys.
CHICAGO, July 1S.-The expose was
| brought about by lawyers too closely
pressing the REORGANIZATION of Su-
perintendent McGinn, of the Pinkerton
agency, who was on the stand. He had
the al ernative of refusing to answer
pertinent question concerning Wilson,
VI Shu1A41S OAO AaOtOl W obOH u r LII LIS
true cOIors. McGinn chose the latter.
Wilson. Lr Mulligan, ebeyed a signal
and sprang quickly across the room to
the side of the prosecution. When the
commotion subsidized, Eupt. McGinn
related the circumstances of Broderick,
one of the conspirators, throwing the
the mysterious letter odC Lf the car
window at the time OF the arrest. and
the Su osequent recovery OF the letter.
The mo I'VE of Broderick in Kidding
hims self of the missive is not apparent.
as thu letter is entirely non commit al.
Bowles, the ''squealer," was The next
witness. de began by telling of the |
secret meeting of the Brotherhood in |
Aurora. he sa Chief Bauereisn made
the statement that we should do some
thing. that the company was getting |
ahead Of Us. He said it would not do
for hliu TO do snything in regard to the |
use of dynamite. but it could be used |
with good effect. After the meeting |
was over l made a statement to hum. |
l knew how to use it aud ha seen it !
used in a gravel pit. He wanted to
know if l could get any of it l said |
thought | could. He gave me 81 to |
ssCu e some. That was two weeks after |
wa initiated. Cooling, one of the de- |
AOhNo4ibSy W 90 oS l4O AhOOLAhBs AAO al"
former told of his expeditions to Indi
ana to purchase dynamite and how
Bau-re;sn had sent him with it 10 |
Geor Clark. of Galesburg, the leading |
engineer who was arrested. They went |
out together to place it on the track,
and it was some of this dynamite that
Bowles buried and which was dug up
to day. Banereisn told me, continued
the witness, that in a certain part of /
Aurora there was q frame house and |
asader it as a sewer running across the |
street. The house was "scab" board
ing house. Bauereisn wanted Aleck /
Smith and myself to get under the house
by this sewer and place bomb there
and blow up the house. | told him it
would be murder and l would not do
it. The witness further implicated
George Clark by telling Ct a
letter from Bauereisn, from which
the latter said Clark wanted some
of the goods" (dynsmite), and for
him (Bowles) to hurry up and give
Clark some. The witness thereupOn
brought two pounds of dynamite and
letter from Bauereisn, telling him to
hurry up with the goods to Creston. He
then went to Creston and delivered
four pounds of dynamite to Broderick.
The witness then presented letter ad-
dressed to him, June % signed j. A. B
The letter informs him that he is being
watched, not to do anything suspicious,
and then he thought best to go home or
look for a situation somewhere and
give up the jobbing business. Bowles
could not swear the letter was IN
Bauereisn's handwriting but from the
fact that they had corresponded about
the matters mentioned, he was satisfied
of it's authenticity. He also explained
the contents of the letters received
from Bauereisn, at NoblesYille, Ind, in
closed money and Instructions to take
plenty of goods to Creston. Under
cross -examinatioD, Bowles admitted
that he had told the attorneys or the
defense while in jail that he was limo
cent, that he knew nothing of the use
of dynamite and that he had lied
as to his innocence and
other matters. When the cross -ex-
animation was concluded, Mr.. Ewing.
arose and said the State would rest at
this point. Court then adjourned till
to morrow.