Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-29
VINCENT ST. JOHN
is HELD AT TELLURIDE
WITHOUT BAIL

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Sheriff Cal Rutan who went 10 Idaho
to secure st John, had arrived with
hirl in Telluride on the l7ta. The
journal says ST John was taciturn
and sullen oil the trip from Idaho
The sheriff told OF how he had gotten
his prisoner away from Idaho without
annoying delays. and said this mad
been manipulated sltilfuily by the at.
torney manipulating affairs at Boise,
Idaho. The Journal says:
st. Johns hearing ON the warrant
| upon which he was held, was set for
| 10 O'Clock Thursday at Caldwell and
he was taken 10 that place from
Boise that morning The hearing
was postponed "a hours pending tho
report of the grand Jury iuyestlgat-
ing charges against him. Soon after
the continuance. the jury reported
finding no bill. However Immediate.
| ly upon the continuance in the ius-
| tice court, Attorney Miller looking
/ after st. Johns interests. became in
volved In poker game in the Cald
well hotel. The attorney for the pros
ecution. after the grand Jury had re-
ported no bill. appeared before the
Justice of the peace and asked for the
release of st Jonn which was granted
when he was placed under arrest on
The Colorado warrant AT I.iO the
party left Caldwell to return to Boise
At Nampa station, nine miles from
Caldwell 1t Is necessary To change
cars TO branch which runs up to
Boise, from the main line OF the Ore
gon Short line. Here the officers and
attorneys from Boise alighted. 81.
.Iohn being In charge ol Deputy Mel
drum and PInkerton man. no atten.
tion was paid TO them BY the attor-
neys. Sheriff Rutan stepped OFF the
train and stood about the platform.
When the through train pulled ont he
stepped aboard and the Pinkertoon
man from Boise stepped off. The
first the Federation attorneys knew
OF the coup was when they found
their client was not on the Boise
train"
AT 10 O'Clock last Wednesday morn
Ing The trial was called in Justice
Browns court Attorneys for defense
had made motion for change of ven
ne which Justice Brown refused to
do unless the defendant would make
the usual affidavit that he could not
get fair trial in his court This the
attorneys would not do. It appears
from the testimony that st. John
is held for the murder of man nam
ed Burnham. The Journal publishes
The following proceedings of the
trial:
l. l.. Glenn was the first witness
called. He was coroner and under
taker and merely testified TO the
death and inquest upon the body of
the man Burnham
l.. C. Lomax was next called. At
the time Of the riots he was in the
store at Smnggler, and though he was
through all the battle, the subsequent
surrender. the compromise terms. the
disarming of the miners by the at
tlcking party and their marching up
oyer the hill Into Ouray county, but
little of interest was brought out by
principal part of his testimony was
that st. John called him over the
phone from Smiths store a short dis.
lance away, and headquarters for
The attacking party, and asked him
10 go over 10 the bunk houses and see
If the sheriff was there. that he re-
Dlied ne did not care to go out there
rrftfh hill H.-E.. o..
John told him to wave a white flag
and they would cease shooting: that
he did So and found the sherin was
not up there.
Leo Carroll was next called He
swofe that he was up the hfl! the day
before and coming down the trail met
ST. John going up; that st John told
lim that he had best keep away from
there or he would get hurt; that there
was likely to he something doing
VIII Hay who was employed at the
upper or Sheridan workings. testified
10 the general facts OF the rioting;
| that there was general ana continu.
| Gus shooting; that he saw the man
| Burnnam come out of a cellar and at
| the top he was shot dead falling back;
at about the same time n Mexican
came out with both hands In the air
and was shot dead, but he did not see
| who shot and did not know.
At about II o'clock a recess was
taken until 2 O'Clock to await the ar
rival Of witnesses from the basin. a
deputy having been sent up vita sub
poenas.
At the afternoon session on Wed
nesday in the ST. John hearing. seven
Witnesses were examined.
ID. E. Carroll was first called. He
testified that he was employed as u
guard at the Smuggler-union at the
time Of the riots of 1901; that he
was guarding the men al work and
protecting the company's property,
That two or three days before ht
went up TO work st John told him ht
had better not go to work.
r. N. Lavender testified that at tht
time OF the riots he was proprietor
OF the Smuggler store and POSTMASTER
at Smuggler; that when the tram di,
: not run he carried the mail up ant
dnUn Tho ain That bo at,rtoJ ,,,, ,h.