The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-03
TRAGEDY RECALLED
BY HAYWOOD TRIAL
Michigan People Deeply Inter
eSted i'm Case Now i'm Court
at Boise.
Special 10 The Tribune.

| Special TO The Tribune.
OGDEN. June Miss Ella Win
grove today received a letter from her
sister. Miss S, h, Wingrove. at Alpena,
Mich, dated May %, in which the young
lady states that on the date of the
letter ii showed from a. m. TO 6 p. M,
and that after that 1T froze up solid,
though Lake Huron, on the shore OF
which Alpena is situated, had been open
for navigation for some weeks.
Miss Wingrove also received a copy
of the Alpena Farmer, her home paper,
which contains an interesting story
about Fred Tyler, one of the claim
'Alenes by Harry Orchard, Alpena
was Fred Tyler's home town and the
interest in the Haywood, Moyer and
Pettibone cases in the 6ttle town of To-
900 people is shown by the following
clipping from the Alpena paper:
The trial of William D, Haywood and
his associates at Boise. Ida, on the
ernor Steunenberg, recalls the tragedy OF
the death OF Fred Tyler, former AL
pena young man, VINO was more or Tess
connected with the events which LED up
to the present trial
Fred Tyler UP to about six years ago.
lived In Alpena, since a boy. He was
collector and book keeper, was engaged
for time In the insurance business, and
Just previous 10 his leaving here did
some cedar and lumber iobbing around
Valentine lake and on the Black.
His sister Bertha Tyler, married Ja-
cob Yeager. a shoemaker located at on
away, and later al Connors No. ?. In the
summer of 1897. In 1900 they moved TO
The following year Fred's father. NJ.
E. Tyler. died while the family lived at
Connor's No. .. Soon after that Mrs
| Tyler and her youngest daughter, Win
ME. joined Mrs. Yeager In Idaho. and
after Fred Tyler had disposed of some
OF the interests OF his father and him
self he, too. went to Idaho.
Fred Tyler was always devil-may-
care fellow and he soon became miner
and then claim Jumper" danger
partners was Harry Orchard the miner
who is to be tried with Haywood ct al
and who is alleged to have made a
startling confession duplicating the OFF,
and Tyler were members.
There were four partners In the claim
Adams and Jack Simpkins. About two
years ago all but Orchard disappeared
Murder was suspected, A search was
made. Fred Tyler's body, bullet laden.
was found In a gully. Later Steve Ad
ans was arrested, charged with Tyler's
murder Before Judge Wood al Boise
March last the Jury dis dilnagree6 hIE Stan6 de-
tried again. Adams. also, Is alleged to
have made n confession duplicating un-
ion officers in the murder of Governor
II is said that Orchard proved an
alibl far as the murder Of Fred Ty-
Ter was concerned, but there are those
around Boise who look wise and shake
their heads when the name OF Fred Ty
ler is coupled with that Of Harry Or
chard. SimpSins was never found. 1t
Is suspected that he, too, was murdered
or was implicated In the murder of Ty-
Ter and is still In hiding.
I, is thus that the great trial at Boise
has moro than ordinary interest to AL
pena people
Mrs. Tyler. Winnie Tyler. and Mr., and
Mrs Yeager and their children are still
living In Wallace.