The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-07-21
C0NSPIRATORS CONFESS.
developments In the so" Dynamite Plot
-Bowles and Cooling as Informers

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CHICAGO, H., July 14-Bowles, the
man in the conspiracy against the Bur
hngton road against whom the testi-
mony gwen yesterday was most conclu-
sive, has, it is stated to-day, made ful.
confession of his share in the conspiracy.
He saw that in his case there was little
hope of escape from conviction, and
early this morning If was mado
known to District Attorney Ewing
that Bowles was ready to squeal. Ar
rangements were at once made TO take
down his statement and be was conveyed
TO Mr.. Ewing's office TO tell all he knew.
Another of the arrested men, Godinc,
also, 1t is said, concluded to come nto
camp and at noon to-day all that he
knows about the plot against the Bur
llngton was told. The case of
Chairman Hoge and Murphy, which
was to have come up before Justice
Lyon this morning, was postponed for
one week.
1t is understood that Bowles has told
the prosecution facts which will make
the conviction of Hoge certain. Chair
man Hoge, it would seem, is the one
they are really alter, not only as blow
they wish to strike at the Brother
hood but because the road of
fcials dislike him personally. The
other defendants they are favorf bly, dis
posed towards. The text of the
"squeap was not made public, but it
was important enough to necessitate the
postponement of the case before tn.
federal court as we'll as in the state
tribunal.
When the three Jail prisoners, Bowes,
Broderick and Wilson. were brought
over from the Jail this morning and put
in the cage in the marshal's Office,
Bowles sent word that he wanted to see
the district attorney. He was taken
to Mr.. Ewing's office and there
confessed to General Manager Stone,
Inspector Bonfield and AttorneyCollier
The only direct intimation as to the
nature of the confession was we'll de-
fined rumor that a United States war
rant had been Issued for the arrest of
Hoge, who is out on 81 800 bonds, under
the conspiracy charge brought under
the state law.
The crowd waiting in the federal
court room was again large this morn
ing and chiefly composed of Brother
hood men, whose looks of sympathy
cast on the prisoners as they were
brought in indicated their appreciation
of the danger their comrades were in
Bowles came in with the district attor-
nev and took seat beside him. Oppo-
site the other prisoners, who flashed
vindiciIve and contemptuous looks at
him. He was visibly apitated and
moved restlessly in his seat, keeping his
eyes bent upon the floor. Before the
attorneys for the Brotherhood bad
chance to interpose, Bowles, still trem-
bling, was induced by the district attor-
ney to arise quickly and waive eXamiua
ton.
A sensational scene ensued. The
Brotherhood attorneys, Donohue and
David, protested loudly that they had
been treated with unfairness and given
no show from the very outset of the
trial. Lawyer Devid hotly de-
nounced Commissioner Hoyne, de
claring: ''We could expect moth
ing else from this court, and
have received nothing else" The CON-
missioner ordered David to be arrested
by the marshal, but the latter did not
al once comply and David subsequently
made a Pickwickian apology to the
court Bowles was released on 5000
bail.
After court adjourned the heretofore
reticent prisoner Wilson savAgelv de-
nounced Bowles, ridiculing the idea
that the latter was innocent, and eN-
claiming The chicken-heart, he has
1ail lpur -