Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-28
STORY
TELLS OF ALLEGED PLAN TO
 KILL NON-UNION MINERS.
Deadly Explosive Known as Hell Fire Was to Be Used. Fire from
 Which is Inextinguishabie.

Boise, Idaho, March 28.-James Mcfarland, a detective of Denver, last night made the following state-
 ment respecting that portion of the confession of Stephen Adams cover ing the alleged plan to kill lot of non-union miners while they were passing through Pocatello:
 On February 28, while taking down the statement of. Stephen w.. Adams relative to the numerous out rages and murders committed at the instance of the inner circle of the executive board of the Eastern Fed eration of Miners, and while talking about high explosives, he informed me that, George A. Pettibone made an explosive known as hell fire,' that in his opinion was the most danger ous explosive that was made on ac- count of the fact, that fire started by this explosive could not be extin- guished by water. This explosive was made of stick bosphorus, bi- sulphide of carbon, alcohol, benzion and spirits of turpentine. These in gradients, being properly mixed, were placed in bottles with glass stoppers, the stoppers being properly sealed. In order to explode these bottles and start a fire one simply threw against substance that would cause the bottles to break, which would result in the explosion and non-extinguishable fire.
 "At the time of the Cripple Creek strike Adams says Mover met him in the presence of Pettibone in the latter's store in Denver and said he wanted him to go to Pocatello, Idaho. and carry with him some hell fire,' which he was to throw into any train that was supposed to be loaded with scabs and set the train on fire. as 1t passed through Pocatello. Mover, he said, provided him with gripsack
 In this gripsack was tin can which, as he thought, contained two quart bottles and three pint bottles of the explosive. Mover bought him a ticket for Pocatello. On arriving there Adams made some inquiries relative to the supposed scabs that were to pass through, but as far as he could learn if any scabs were being transported through the town they were scattered throughout the trains. Therefore he concluded he would not take any chances in burn ing up a train of innocent passengers, and did not use the explosives. Hav- ing been informed through Mover, Haywood and Pettibone that the mine owners of Cripple Creek were shipping scabs through from Arizona
 by way of Ogden he went there and
 found that such was not the case.
 Notwithstanding the fact that this hell fire was securely sealed in bot ties, he found that it was smelling strongly, so he took these bottles of the explosive along the railroad track east of Pocatello and placed them in a little trench in front of an old building. He said that he could walk to the scene if in Pocatello, and he believed that the explosives were still there, because if they had ever been disturbed there would have been an explosion that would have been published in the newspapers. He then went to Ogden and sub sequently came back to Denver and reported that 1t was simply impossi- ble for him to execute the work that he was detailed to do without taking innocent peoples. lives"