The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-24

after the parties that had dropped tl1s
lbuldle; the report which we had agreed
Klemme should make to the marsha
anG which he did make. was as fol
t1ows.
About Il o'clock, t. Kiemme. hat
been talking for a few minutes witt
Ofilcer Coftfs on Befita11ia street neal
Miller, Whereafter we parted Upor
Passing a sentinel of the government
at the back entrance to the barracks,
asked him If he had not seen q sus
picious person or more lurking around
on Miller street that night. The sol
der said he had not that night, but
at other times. Shortly after I saw
Two or three men walking rapidly uI
Miller street. 1 followed them and no
tieed that one Of them carried a bun
die Of which he seemed to be very
careful of. I called to them to stoI
whereupon they started running. BY
this time 1 wag pretty close to them
and | noticed that they were tall and
looked like half whites, one of them
having red lei around his hat. They
Jumped through the fence back of Nc
kibben'S place and ran towards the
queens place. l fired at them twice
jumped off my horse and chased them
on foot. I saw the man who carried
|
others. | thought at the time that II
was opium. Earlier in the evening, ]
had seen a carriage with two trunks
passing through Miller street. SO faf
Captain Klemme's report.
| When I arrived at the place on Mil
Ter street l called out to Klemme,
whom l knew was back of McKibben'
place. asking what was the matter.
He answered that he had chased two
I falf q
| run towards the back entrance to
| Washington place l jumped over the
| fence and we three, together with two
| young fellows, who came out from
McKibben's house started looking for
the bundle which Kienir1e stated had
been dropped. After a little while. l
went TO the place where knew the
bundle was. and picked 1t up pretend
ing to be surprised at my find. |
then began to examine the contents
of the bundle when Klemnle warned
me to be careful as we might get
bowed up. In the bundle were sew
efal sticks of dynamite. bottle OF
illuminate silver, some fuse and per-
cussion caps l rolled them carefully
up again and we proceeded to the sta
ton house. The balance of our scheme
was easily carried out. 1t was the
arousing of the town, officials. the
military forces, the citizens guard and
all the rest were stirred up klemme
didn't leave the telephone before
everybody was astir and many hard
expressions were used against the
Queen and her adherentS that night
and afterwards.
Sometime afterwards | notlced ehde
Klemme was getting rather shy OF me
and I realized that I could learn no
more of his plans. then concluded
to Aay the whole matter before Marshal
Hitchcock, AS soon as he returned
from Hawaii l went to him and told
him all about It, 1 did not go into
details of our work but | told him the
plan in general. Captain w Larsen
for some reason suspected our game
and in making enquiries at the drug
store he found that Wagner and ms
gang had at different times been pur-
chasing material for explosives at sew
-eral stores. | told the marshal that to
my knowledge Klemme and ms friends
had stolen quite lot of giant powder
from the Pail road. and that kienlne
had told me that it was buried IN ms
ward on Fort street The marshal
told me that he knew it and made me
understand that he desired that the
whole affair be kept quiet. He then
told me to prepare myself to go to
Maui where he would give me an APP
pointment as deputy sheriff and he
gave me dSdIH 10 ulueioldllQ cAc1S
was not to say anything about the
dynamite affair made the necessary
preparations to leave town, but when
the time came, the marshal refused
to give me a commission and sent an
other man Although aware of the
full history of this dynamite scare
which created such a great sensation,
the marshal has never moved in the
matter. but has retained all the officers
connected with it on the force.
The plot against Spreckels and Nord-
hons lives was abandoned in my re
fusing to join klemme, but after the
dynamite episode Klemme told me that
he intended to put a placard of a
threatening natuEe on the gate of
Claus Spreckels, so as to scare him out
of the islands This l did in company
with him The card is well known
here. The inscription was: Gold and
silver won't stop lead. Besides this
the card was ornamented with coffin,
daggers, bullets and other fearful pic
lures.
That all of the above is true, I sol
emily affirm under my oath.
HARRY A. JUEN,
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of December, a. D. 1898.