Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-19

teri Did they care continental
whether Tyler ever had a mother, or
a father, or a sister, or n brother, or
who be vast Now, you know, gentle
men, whether L am telling this straight
or not. The Governor of the State of
Idaho, the Great Detective Of the
Pinkerton Agency, James MCFARLAND
forty years sleuth-a Senator Of
the United States (Mr. Borah), Mr..
Hawley, Special Prosecutors, and An
gus Sutherland, the Sheriff of sho-
shone County,-all Of these men Of
power and influence and position,
with the State Treasury of Idaho at
their command, had this statement OF
"eonfession about the death Of
Tyler in February, 1906, and they did
not even send a word to his bereaved
mother. She never heard about it.
Nobody even deigned TO write her
letter, until they wanted TO hold Steve
Adams in their clutches, and then
they sent her word in September to
come down TO Wallace and testify.
More than that, gentlemen. Let us
see what there is in this case. That
confession" said that Mason and
Glover were guilty of murder; that
"eonfession said that another man,
who was and is running at large, a
settler up here in the woods was
guilty of murder. Did they send out
to apprehenl those murderersf They
got this information in February,
1906. Did any of these numerous
Sleuths or lawyers OF officers make any
investigation or attempt to catch the
other mani Did they care one con-
tinenthl who killed Fred Tyler, or
who killed Ed. Bouleyi Or was every
single act a fraud, and were they
working simply to convict somebody
elsef You know the truth; every
body knows il. In February, 1906,
they were told who had committed
these murders, and not a man raised
his hand or his voice until September
1906, when Steve Adams applied for
writ of Habeas Corpus to get out
busy, didn't theyf Got busy for what :
To find the slayer of Tyler, to find
the slayer of Bouleyf Oh, no, not that
at all. We are told there is nothing
against Alvin Mason, although Mr..
Knight, for the prosecution, informed
US at the last trial of this case in Wal
lace, that he would prosecute Alvin
Mason as soon as he was done with
this ease. He is little slow about il
They did not get busy to avenge the
death Of Bouley; they did not gel
busy TO avenge the death of Tyler;
they did not get busy TO fiul out who
was guilty of the murder Of these men
but they got busy to try to hang
Steve Adams.
Now, gentlemen, is there any doubt
about this'
Late MORNINGS
Go a step further. We have beer
given certain reasons for believing
that Tyler was dead, and that il was
his skeleton that was found in tn,
Marble Creek Country. / don't know
whether il was his skeleton or not
there are reasons for and there ar,
reasons against believing it. Did the
mother believe il was her sons skel
etonf She ought to know as mucl
about it as any one. She is the on,
who pared his feet, who said the sole
were thick; she is the one who sal,
he hurt his finger playing base ball
Did she believe it was his skeleton
or August, 1905, ana her husband an,
two of her sons-in-law were there
and they went with il to the Hea,
of Navigation, and they returned an,
told her about il. Now, / am no
going to find fault because she di,
not go to Wallace, but, gentlemen
/ cannot help thinking that it is
/ little strange that a mother, who di,
, not even take the pains to plant on
, flower over her boys grave, or max
one visit to her sons gave or buy on
| crepe veil TO mourn his death, shoul
come here to this courtroom 80 heavil
laden with mourning, three years afte
I il is passed and gone, and when
Jury is asked to kill Steve Adam,
Do you think there is anything strapg
, about itf Is this real grief that
paraded here, OF il is the trapping
of the theater, that are brought int
, this Court of Justice in order to ge
} you to do a job which they csnnO
, get done over in Shoshone County
where the thing happenedi
. Now, that is not all. This woman
this mother, might have still hope
, and when that body was discovere
/ that IL was not her sons But she wa
/ written to in September, 1906, and too
that Adams had Confessed and sh
2 came down TO the hearing in Sep
) September, 1906, and between Eel
ruaty and September pf that yea
not a word had been said to her b
any Of these men-who 80 loved Oh
D law and who so love justicel Not
D world She had been left alone. Sh
Z. was written to in September to com
0 down to Wallace and testify-not
1 see her sons remains, not to com
s down to assist in giving him a decer
;. burial. but to come down and help cor
, vict Steve Adams, that was what sh
a was written for; and she came an
r heard the confession, and she te
3 tilted and went back home; but sh
o did not even buy crepe veil in Wa
d lace. She had not then begun to /
so certain about her sons death this
n she would wear mourning,
Adams Life a Pawn
{ But the trial came up in Februar
1906, and she came TO Wallace in h,
!. regular clothes; two years and ha
Il after her son was dead sho came