Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-26
THE BURLINGTON oYNaMirERs.


A Sensation In the Chicago Court Room
One of the Prisoners q Detective in Dis
guise-AB Informer's Testimony.
CHICAGO, July 19.-The greatest crowd
vet assembled to witness the court pro-
ceedings against the Burlington dyna-
! miters was present yesterday. Further
examination of InforIner Alexander Smith
was waived. Then John Wilson. one of
the men arrested with Broderick and
Bowles as an arch-conspirator and as q
Brotherhood man, coolly left his seat in
the group of which Broderick and Bauer
sisen were members, walked to the side of
the room where the prosecuting attorneys
sat and took a chair beside Mr.. Dawes,
with whom he began to chat in friendly
manner. Then it was developed that he
was not an engineer, not a Brotherhood
man and not even Wilson, but John Multi
gan, a Pinkerton detective, who had gained
the confidence of all the prisoners and
their attorneys.
The expose was brought about by the
lawyers too closely pressing the cross-ex-
animation Of Superintendent McGinn of
the Pinkerton agency, who was on the
witness stand, and had the alternative of
an awkward refusal to answer pertinent
questions or cause Wilson to show up in
true colors. He chose the latter, and Will
son or Mulligan, obeyed a signal and
quickly walked across the room to the side
of the prosecution.
When the connection had subsidized
Superintendent McGinn related the cir
cumstances OF Frederick, one of the con-
spirators, throwing a mysterious letter out
of the car window at the time of his arrest
and the subsequent recovery of the letter.
Broderick's motive in Kidding himself Of
the missive and the extreme secretiveness
of the officials in guarding its contents is
not apparent. IL is as follows:
TON Broderick: Dear Sir and Brother:
ju- received 4 letter from Bowies from Glen
wood Junction. Mo, and don't know ere TO
write TO him SO he will get my letter. You
should hare made arrangements with him when
he was at Creston. / will let you know If can
get him as soon as ossible. Let me know
where 10 address you every time you write.
will always write 70 the comb man and you can
get your mail from there: that is the surest way.
will direct 10 you in care OF them and tell them
10 return the letter if you have left there. I
will try to find J. A. B. as soon as can and get
him TO work If you hea Of him tell him to
come TO Aurora, unless you want him with
you. Your hard striker. J. A. BAUEREISEN.
PS.-May be Bowies is gone 10 Brookfeld;
he said IN his letter he would write soon again.
He says they are getting on to him.
The letter was written On one of the
Brotherhood letterheads, was dated at
Aurora, June 90, and was addressed to
Tom Broderick, Kansas City, Mo-"
Bowles, the engineer who accepted work
from the Burlington Company after the
strike began and subsequently became a
member of the Brotherhood, was the next
witness of importance. He began by tell
ing of a secret meeting of the Brother
hood in Aurora, saying: "Chief Bauerei-
sen made statement that we should do
something; that the company was getting
ahead of US. He said it would not do for
him to do any thing in regard to the use
of dynamite, but it could be used with
good effect. After the meeting was over
some conversation passed between him
and myself and l made the statement to
him that l knew how to use it; that had
seen it used in the gravel pit. He wanted
to know if 1 could get any of it and told
him thought 1 could. He told me to go
and get it. He gave me $50 to get it.
That was two weeks after was initiated.
was initiated April %. Gooding, one of
the defendants, was among those at the
meeting"
The informer then told of his expeditions
to Indiana country towns to purchase
dynamite, and how Bauereisen had sent
him with it to George Clark, of Galesburg,
leading engineer, who was arrested
Tuesday. They went out together to place
it on the track and it was some of this
dynamite that Bowies buried and which
was dug up.
Telling of his talk with Bauereisen about
the explosion on the 80" track near Aurora.
the witness said that Bauereisen said it
would have good effect. "He told me-"
continued he, that in a certain part of
the town there was a frame house and that
under it was a sewer running across the
street. The house was a 'scab' boarding
house and was filed with scabs. Bauer
eisen wanted Alec Smith and me to get
under the house by the sewer and place a
bomb there and blow up that house. | told
him that that would be murder and
would not do it.''
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