Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-09-26
The Trial of
Steve Adams
Change of Venue Granted to Rath.
drum -Unprejudiced Jury Not
Obtainable at Wallace

She then married Steve, who simply
adores her, and her strong capable
character has much influence over him.
She has never faltered under the sense
less persecution that has been heaped
upon them both. After being taken to
the penitentiary at Boise, it was she
who put heart into Steve, wellnigh
dead through the sweating and the ma
chinations Of MCFARLAND and his gang,
and caused him to boldly repuiiate
the confession to which he had been
virtually forced TO affix his name, af-
ter threats and Misrepresentation, and
what amounted to attacks upon is life.
This confession business Of having
lawyers, detective and typewriters fix
up page of hog wash, and then hav-
ing a poor prosecuted devil Of a work.
ing man sign it after he has been
doped with all sorts of lies, has been
one of the unique features in this
persecution of the Federation. Or
chard stuck to his, and played the part
that the mine owners wanted him to
for the emoluments thereof, good
clothes, cheap notoriety and his life.
He is spineless enough to be a good
tool. But because Annie Adams was
at his side, and because he was an hon
est and sincere working man, and not
card sharp or any kind of a CRATER
trying to live in any way without
work, Adams denounced the diabolical
confession and its trainers, regardless
of what the consequences might be.
Neither has Annie Adams ever fal.
tered at what the consequences might
be. She tells Steve to stand by the
truth and the right and the interests
of his class regardless of everything
else; and even went so far as to say,
she would leave him if he didn t. She
will go down in history as one of the
heroines of the working class, who
have fought the battle and endured the
pangs of working class emancipation
She was arrested and kept in the
penitentiary at Boise six months with
out even an accusation against her
trying to get her to help betray the
Federation into the hands Of its enc
mics. Official Russia has no worse
record. The ruling class enact the
same crimes here whenever il suit,
them.
Mrs. Adams oldest boy, Charles, il
with her sister in Goldfeld, Nevada
Adolphus, the next, is with her il
Rathdrum, and has started to school
lie is a beautiful, bright, sturdy chilt
of seven years, with most bewitehin,
dimples.
Then there is the baby, Dave Adams
he says, twenty months old, and tn,
image of his father, whose only chill,
he is, the other two of course bein,
step-children.
Everything looks now as thougl
the Adams trial would come up at tn
term of court that begins October IL
Mr.. Darrow has withdrawn the motioi
for a change of venue, relying on tn
utter lack of evidence against Adam
for the happy outcome of his case.
Appearances indicate that this tria
will come off before Rae Petition
trial at Boise. Judge Wood has state
that the Pettibone case would not
tried till after the Borah case was di.
lposed Of. Borah's trial, as one of tn
timber thieves, begins Sept. 23, and
is not likely that il will be fnishe
by Oct. 1, the date set for the Petit
bone trial. Moreover, George Petition
is dangerously i'll with cancer of tn
stomach-so bad that his life is jel
aired Of, and il is extremely doubtfr
if that trial ever takes place. He is !
the hospital so weak that his doc
is never even locked
There is much in our favor in COZ
neetion with the Steve Adams cas-
at Rathdrum. We have the fines
bunch Of socialists there in the stat
of Idaho. They are aggressive, sell
respecting and hold their own again,
the court house ring, always a eliqu
of corrupt penny politicians, to sue
an extent that they poll IS straigl
votes, with about Is or 20 splits,
splendid record for a little prejudice
country town. And the socialists al
always the watchdog of the workiu
class, wherever the class fight is a
fined.
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