The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-09
THE PLEA OF MOVER
DENIES ANY CONNECTION WITH
 ASSASSINATION.
With Haywood and PettibOne, By Ha- beaa Corpus Proceedings, He Seeks Ills Release. From
 Jail In Idaho.

Boise. Idaho. March S.-Charles H. Mover, William Haywood and George E. Pettibone have filed their answers in the supreme court to the return made by Warden Whitney of the pen- itentiary in the habeas corpus proceed- ings.
 They are practically identical. al- though in some minor details respect ing the movements of the accused during some months prior to the mur- der of which they are accused they differ.
 Mover, in his answer. after covering a number of minor points, says he was February IF. citizen and a resident of Denver and had been for four years; that he had not prior to the acts here- matter set forth been in the State of Idaho nor in auy part thereof, prior thereto, since on or about the 2Sth of October, 1905. that on or about the 2Sth of October, 1905, your petitioner entered Idaho from the State of Ore gon on a railway train and remained in a car of said train until the town of Nampa, in said State of Idaho was reached; that tnereuPon he changed cars and was immeditely carried in a car to a point south of Nampa in the direction If silver City, that at the end of the route he took a stage to Silver City; attended a meeting of a lodge of the organization of which your peti- tioner is a member. known as the local union of Western Federation Of Miners; that he remained in Silver City over night and during the following day he was in Silver City and attended a similar lodge meeting in small town in the immediate vicinity of Siver city, and the next morning returned to Nampa and there entered car Of the train going East which took him with all dispatch from the State of Idaho; that prior to said time he had not been in the State of Idaho for a period of more than three years"
 Proceeding, the answer states that he was not in Caldwell Tt the time of the assassination of Frank Steunen- bers. It recites the warrant of Feb ruarv 12 for his arrest and the issu- ance of requisition papers February IS. Mover states that Governor Gooding, J. IT Hawley and owen Van Duyn, the county attorney, knew he was not in Idaho December 30 the date of the as- sassinatton.
 Continuing, the answer, alleged that Governor Gooding, Hawley and Van Duyn conspired together and with other persons unknown to secure his arrest and removal from Colorado in violation of the constitution and the statute of Congress of extradtion; that in pur- suance of this conspiracy, Hawley went to Denver, February 15, with Deputy Warden Mills for the purpose of kid mapping him and removing him from Colorado in defiance of the constitution and laws. There they conspired with the Governor of Colorado to cause him to be secretly arrested. Under the cir cumstances which would make ii im- possible to test the validity of the ex- tradition they agreed that the arrest should be made late Saturday evening" February IT, and that he be secretly removed from the State.
 Mover further alleges this was to prevent his friends from learning of his arrest and thus be prevented from suing out a writ of habeas corpus When friends heard of the arrest they inquired of the authorities at the jail and were informed no such arrests had