Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-31
STORY OF ADAMS
PROVES 70 Be TRUE
witnesses Come Forward Win
Found Bottles Of "pettIbons
Dope Where he Cached i.
ONE MAN WAS BADLY BIpuro
Pocatello is Agog Over ,be M.
Citizens Tell the Story Of
Their Find.
sDecial Correspondence

Sbecial Correspondence.
DocArELLo. Ida, March %
'ello Is all aeog with excitor.s.
over the discovery here ~ n
Hell Fire" or "Pettibone dom we
cealed by Steve Adams at ths ,,r..
his failure to blow up a carload a, ~.
union miners passing through hers
their way to Colorado in 1903
While the dope itself was no, ,or.,
yet witnesses to the fact that tho s,n.
was here have Just come tn tbo s
They are Thomas and George MO- ry'
Key. James Byrd and Dan O'AIear. ~,
latter foreman for tho W. NJ. Rash r..
duce company. ~
WHERE 1T WAS CACHED
According to Adams story he rl,o.,
the fve bottles in which the stpff W.
nelu, III an old tin can which he h,r,sS
IN the dirt floor Of an old saw mil ha
longing 10 the Weeter Lumber con
paay, ana located about a half n MIL
south Of the town. His reason FOR r nn''
ceallhg II, as he explains il was Tho,
the non-union miners whom ne was "a
destroy were not in one car, as mo Az
his associates had thought thew wonit
De, out Were scattered among tho otbsr
passengers ON the train, and he Wa
unable to destroy them without s,n'
rihcing the lives of number Of inne.
cent people; this, I'm connection win
the fact that one Of the bottles wss
leaking and giving forth a disagreesbjs
door, induced him to conceal them rs
stated. 90
EXPLOSIVES FOUND.
Today James Byrd. now n machnist,
helper at the shops here. and Georss
McConkey related that in company
with another young fellow OF the mama
OF Frank Shaffer, went to the old min
In the early spring Of 1904 for the bur-.
pose OF hauling away some old tlmbers
While digging they came In contact
with an old can containing bottles WITH
glass shoppers, Escaping from the bot.
ties was some KIND OF chemical prep.
ration, which gave forth very ra.
culiar odor. Young McConkey extract.
ed one Of the shoppers. when instantly
a blue flame shot forth. severely burn.
Ing his hand, and which could only b
extinguished by smothering Il with
dust. He threw the can toward the fron,
end of the building and went about hh
work, but II continued to burn and give
forth such an unpleasant odor that hls
companion, Byrd, finally picked II up
on his shovel and carried It outside,
where he buried 1t under some clnder,
MORE EVIDENCE.
About a year ago Thomas McConkey
and Con" Ryan were working at the
wholesale house of Scowcroft e Sons,
when they CHANGED to see fire in pile
OF rubbish close to the old mill On 20.
ing to il they found it coming from an
old can I'm which were several bottles
with glass shoppers. They tried to ex-
tinguish the fire by kicking the can,
but the more they kicked the wider Il
spread, and they only succeeded In put.
ting II out by stamping IT, This cor
roborates Adams story IN addition n
this the old battered can, and one q
the glass shoppers have been found,
Mr.. Rash corroborates the story as told
by the boys and states that he assisted
them in extinquishing the fire
ADAMS . I'M
Adams first told his story more than
n month ago IN Boise. and while giving
n minute description Of the old mill
was, however, unable to say in jus.
what direction Il was from the city,
but stated that II the officers would
permit he could go TO the place ne
was brought here yesterday for that
purpose, and went at once 10 the spot
where the bottles had been cached ne
described the appearance Of the mn
when he had been there also from%hh
direction he entered and even called a..
tenton to the fact that the entire east
end of the building was open when D,
was there. Mr.. Weeter contradlelei
this statement. feeling assured tnat
there were doors in that end AZ may
time. This Adams most strenuousy
denied. and when Glenn Goodwin yaid.
man for Mr.. Weeter, was called ~
what Adams had SAID, w.
that there were no doors there the en-
tire end being open,
Adams was taken back to BOISE