The Cairo bulletin., 1907-11-13
ADAMS TOLD OF
MANY MURDERS
sAYs FORMER ApJUTANT G1NER.
AL or COLORADO, ON WIT
kEeS STANl.
STARTLING CiNfESSION
In Murder Trial Of Steve Adams TN
idaho--Went TO North Idaho 70
n1urp orr Men.

Rathcran. Idaho Nov. H. Buckley
Mes. fcrmerly adjutant general 1f
Colorado, tcok the stald ia The SseFn
Aliens murder tflal this afternc on
| He testified to first hails sean
Adams May n. 1906, 1T Orchard lt'a.
10 He, went tllcra 70 meet hin 70 50
to Colorado with him
Adams told the witness CT the nun
Der CT crimes in which he had palt
cipatad They had some conversation
at that time Ia reference to crimes IN
ST. Joe county, III North Idaho, M
one but Adams and the witness was
present during this conversation. He
told me- said the witness, that after
the Independence explosion he had
gone to Nroth Idaho to be at st Joe
to help bnmp-off two men VINO mad
been giving him trouble over his tim,
be-. claim"
Nothing important was brought cut
ten the crcss examination. On the he-
direct examination the witness sail
he had found the body Of Barney twh9
Adams said had been Killed during ~
tabor troublel at Trouble, wherc Il
was mapped OFT
Wells. memher of the Colerado
state Raiircad commission said ne
was in charge CT = special tfaia that
| took Meyer. Haywood and Pettihoae
| ia Boise from Denver. He said taat
as a nscm5er Of the Mine Owners AZ,
lscciaticn. being a manager OF miae
/ in Telluride, he had an interest ~ the
prtsecuticn Of these men, as he pc
| lteved from what had been said by
| Adams and Orchard that they were
guilty of instigating the murder OF
Steunenberg. L. w. whitney war
den al the state penitentiary at Boise
trctolds the story OF Adams as % the
killing OF Boule and Tyler.
In the last hour OF court, the con
fession of Adams was read to the
Jury 1t was made to James McPhar-
land, detective. soon after Adams was
ARRESTED in February 1906, and PIT IN
the Boise penitontiary. 1t was ad-
mitted by Judge Wood during Me-
pharland's direct examination not
withstanding the objection Of Attor-
ney Darrow.
In his confession Adams is quoted
as saying that he met Mover, Hay
wood and Pettibone in Colorado, the
summer following Arthur Collins as
sassination at Telluride, and that he
had been intimately acquainted with
them up to the time he left Colo
RADIO.
"They told me to go TO Idaho and
meet Jack Simpkins." Adams r.
quoted as saying. THAT he wanted
10 see me on some business in regard
tc Ex-Governor Steunenberg and that
would meet him near Wallace,
Idaho, at wardner | believe"
The confession delas with the pre-
liminary talk about the proposed as
sassination Of Steunenberg. The talk
had taken place in Pettibone's BACK
room and besides Adams there had
been present Haywood and Pettibone
They gave him 5000 he is alleged to
have said and he left for Simpkins
place. Simpkins Is said to nave
promised him $500 to assist him IN
getting rid Of jumpers. and that soon
after two wer killed. In telling Of the
killing of Tyler he said they kept the
victim in Simpkins' cabin over night
then took him into the timber and
shot him. leaving the body wher i
fell Adams told Of dynamiting the
cabins OF three jumpers, and declared
he received only 1920 OF the 500
promised him.