The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-20
THE DEFENDANTS.

plOy6Q Dy Inc Q0J6CblV6 agency at q salary
of $50 month. It is stated that it was
from him that the company first got their
evidence. Smith was confronted with this,
and, by dint of considerable suasion, moral
and otherwise, was induced to make
clean breast of what he knew.
= The courtroom was filed at an early
hour with much of the same kind of
an audience as were there Friday, sturdy
looking engineers, as then, FREEDOM
mating. The Observation-Disclosures Com
missioner was in his seat prompt
ly at 10 o'clock. When all was
ready United States District Attorney
Ewing arose and said that Bowles desired
to waive further examination. This
brought Donahue to his feet with an an
nouncement that he desired to say word
Before he could say it, however, Commits
sioner Hoyne asked Bowles what he had to
say, and Bowles replied that he waived
examination.
The district attorney then moved that in
the interest of public justice, the case be
continued to Monday morning. The court
asked the prisoner if he desired bail
and he said he did, and it was
fixed at $1,000 Attorney Dohahue,
for the defense, opposed the motion
district attorney if the ends of public
Justice demanded it. Mr.. Ewing replied
that they did; and then Bowles rose, and
advancing few steps, said in voice
trembling with emotion: II speak in
the interest of public justice, and to
show that I am an innocent man, He
then lost control of his feelings, and,
bursting into tears, put his handkerchief
to his eyes and took his seat. The Com
missioner then adjourned court to Monday
morning at 10 o'clock, and the spectators
filed slowly out.
BoWles was subsequently closeted with
District Attorney Ewing and Inspector
James Fl. Bonfield. He expressed desire
that General Manager Stone should be
present, and then he exposed the entire
workings of the strike, and the important
part Hoge and Murphy played in it. The
most startling feature of all is that Bowles
implicated men who have not heretofore
been suspected. but who are employed by
other roads. He gave names, data ETC.,
that startled even Mr.. Stone, who thought
that he knew the rarnifications of this
conspiracy. During his statement Bowles
told Mr.. Stone that he was delegated one
night to lay dynamite on the track near
Aurora, but when he got to the point
his heart failed him as he thought of
the consequences that might result, and
he threw the cartridges into a stream
"My conscience has overcome me as | real
ize the enormity of. this thing,'' he said
in his statement. .If / could only recall
the past. 1t breaks my heart and nearly
drives me crazy to think of the harm
might have done. No, Hoge was not
directly implicated in the dynamite plots,
but he well knew what was going on, and
knew perfectly well where was getting
the dynamite. | rendered my bills, and
they were paid through the headquar-
tiers of our division of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, and every
officer at the head of that division was
cognizant of what I and others were doing
l have no desire to conceal one thing. My
bills for dynamite were paid out of the
brotherhood treasury, and Mr.. Hoge ap-
proved the bills.'' Bowles gave names of
parties but for obvious reasons the names
will not be made public.
AS more light has been thrown on the
work of the conspirators, railroad men be-
gin to talk. When the news circulated
that Bowles was going to confess all he
knew. the men began to shake their heads
and think. A member of the Broth
erhood said: IF in any manner Chiefs
Arthur and Sargent are brought into this
matter. and they are not released on bail,
then there will be a general strike through
out the country. Even if this tria. Of
Hoge should prove unsatisfactory to the
men and he is sentenced and convicted,
then there will be general strike"
As soon as the trial of Hoge is over, and
should he be convicted there will be a
meeting of all brotherhood unions and
other organizations connected with the
railways. There is no doubt that if these
trials should take a scrious turn and the
brotherhood get the worst of it, then all
the roads in the country will be tied up.
81 have nothing to say, your hon.
Or responded the prisoner, who had
been convicted of bigamy; 81 can only
ask the mercy of the court "Sinee
you ask the mercy of the court" said
his honor, "and there are four women
who will probably claim you for a hus-
band when you are freq once more, I
will give you ten years in the States
prison, instead of five. Life.
"A melon patch near this city is
said to be haunted by the ghost of
boy who died after eating some of its
fruit which he had stolen. Persons
who pass the place at night claim to
have seen a white figure, and 10 have
heard unearthly shrieks and groans.
Evidently case of cholera in phan-
tom. Orlando Fla. Record.
I'm Japan man introduces his bet
ter half as my fool of a wife," but
his wife does not take offense, because
she knows that she was fool to marry
him.
Dignity is a good thing for an ele-
phant or something of that kind, but
man who is alive and kicking has very
little use for it.-AttGntG Constitution.