The San Francisco call., 1907-02-24
Adams Admits He Had
Talks With Pettibone,
Meyer and Haywood
TIMBER MEN KILLED
Sets Forth in Writing How
Claim Jumpers Were
Shot to Death


, Of a man named Tyler in the wiLds of
; ST. Joe county, and involving the muir
der Of Ex-Governor Steunenberg, were
the reading Of the confession Of Adams,
which the defense contends was OBJ
tained under duress and is false, and
. the cross examination Of Warden Whit
ney of the Idaho penitentiary Whit
ney was questioned chiefly with re-
gard TO this imprisonment of Adams.
A searching cross-examination followed
as 70 the reason why Adams was kept
IN the penitentiary when there was no
charge against him and after he had
not been indicted by the Grand Jury.
You knew that you had nothing
under which you could hold him at
this timer" the warden was asked.
. Nothing except the order from the
4 Probate Court"
But you know that after the Grand
Jury had not returned a bill against
him you had no right to hold him?"
Whitney admitted that he knew that.
He said that Adams was locked up
every. night. but at his own request
lowed Adams brother to see him.
CORRECTED HIS CONFESSION
whitney was handed q typewritten
stated that the document had been
given Adams at his own request in
order that he might make necessary
alterations Adams kept the document
one day and on returning il corrected
subscribed and swore TO it before a
notary public Whitney acted as
witness and returned the document to
Detective MCFARLAND, to whom the
confession had been made The cor
rections made throughout the document
were in the handwriting Of the notary
public The instrument was also
identified by Mcfarland and was then
read 10 the court. 1t was as follows:
steven ". Adams ! was born in Jackson
How many of the family were there sof your
Three boys. q mother and father
WHAT were their namesf
one was Joseph smick and the other swnliam
Where does Joseph reside?
received letter from him a short time ago
from Creede, Colo
Where did you ever work in mine?
At Cripple Creek near Telluride ana above Sill
When did You first 90 to Telluride'
IN March 1899 1900.
Are you a member OF the Western Federation
Yes. Sir. and have the card Of 1905.
when did you Join:
It was when Dan MeG inley was secretary
How long had YOU resided in Oregon7
To Tie best Of my knowledge. since 1905.
Where did you come from when you went to
Oregon
State at thar time you had got acquainted
with Charles Meyer William Haywood and
George Pettbone.
When did you become acquainted with theml
Before the Arthur Collins assassination
You were intimately acquainted with them
right along after that. up to the time you left
yes sir have not seen them since.
fu9e Ver
ever hold any conversation with them about the
assassination OF Ex-Governor SteunenbeEg?
They told 10 90 10 Idaho and see Jack si1p-
kins that lie wanted to see me about some busi
ness connected with Steunenberg, and that 1
would find him at Wallace believe
1 want you TO be as particular as possible
When did you talk about the assassination OF
shortly after saw simpkins 1t was shortly
after the dynamiting Of the depot at lnoepend-
euee; IN july. 1904, ! think i was. =.
Who talked TO you about the assassination OF
e5eoree Pettibone He told me that simp-
kfns wanted 70 see me and when 1 went TO see
Simpkins he told me about steunenberg. He
said they wanted TO get steunenberg-
They said they wanted TO get him; die they
They said get" him?
You mean Simpkins said they wanted 10 get"
him. Mover was not present was he?
i don't know where be was, but ! think he
was in jan at Telluride, and l got 500 from from
Pettibone went 10 Haywood to get fl.
How did you know that he dbl
TELLS OF MURDERS
He told NE that he did. He asked me to
wait until he went and got 1t. BE said nothing
as TO the manner in which we were to remove
SteGnenberg He gave US no directions 1t was
understood that 1 was TO use my OWL judgment
and Petuibone told me about sinpkins wanting
10 see me. before / received money. did not
see Haywood after received the mopey. Simp-
kins told that he wanted me 20 go up on
said that ne would write back that day for the
money and then we would 60 down on the
do not know II he got the money or not. Petit
bone rold afterwsrd that the money sent
the wrong address. After / got 10 the tim
Der claim l met some settlers. One named
Mason and another named Rsle- he is the one
known as ''Tall-eye.' 1 also met man by the
name Of Glover There We're some claim
Jumpers IN there. Simpkins told me that he
wanted to get rid Of these fellows and that
Two men got killed. Meut Glover, Simpkins
and myself assisted IN the killing. Tyler was
the first man killed and killed him with a
. TO Tyler's cabin and he was not there. We
stayed around all DAY and then went out on
the trail. We stopped q spring and ] heard
some one coming ] said: IAN right 1 glad
We hid behind some trees and 1 saw that IT
! Tyler coming. He had q big gun buckled
on and told hiIa. to hold up his hands. One
sinpkins' cabin and kept him tn morning
and then took him three miles out on the trail
the time. After the killing the body was left
4 between two logs. Tyler always refused 10
/ q
I by the name Of Lewis. a Spokane man had
! placed him on the claim
After the killing I went down to Harrison
and met Simpkins. / told him what I had done
/ and said that he would not have any more
claim jumpers his claim. BE said that we
should rest around Harrison For while and then
90 back and get the rest OF the fellows on the
other claims. In about a week or thereabouts
we went back up there and I met fellow bv
the name Of BOule and another man coming
down the trail We fred and killed BouIe
There was Jack Simpkins. Meut Glover and my
self. There another whose name I do
not remember We met the man on the trail
and Simpkins and Glover knew him Mason was
not there. Wesshof at the with Boule but
missed him. Aftef that we went back to Glo-
vers cabin and Sihlpklns went TO MasOn's cabin.
We finally got out by going 10 Glovers cabin
and got a canoe there and went by the way OF
the St Joseph River. The canoe was lying on
The bank and we took r..
We landed sbeze the Glover ranch and let the
canoe go adrift We waited around there TIL
the Sheriff mp to investigate the matter
of the death OF Boule. Then went back up
20 the place and blew up the cabins. I don't
remember how many. whether II was all Of
them not. There were two three at least
The Sheriff did not find both the bodies only
the body Of BOule, which close 10 Simpkine'
cabin / do not thiRk that the Sheriff asked
Smpkins about the body. i did not get the
$500 promised, as Simpkins said that the settlers
promised to pay but that they were slow In
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