Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-16

with what happened at wardner II Il
throws any light upon n conspiracy.
Ihat Is, II there were murders at Gem or
property destroyed. you are not TO hold tho
defendants responsible for that, but you may
legged conspiracy"
1t was ordered October 10, 1892 that an
appeal to the United States Supreme Court
De allowed, ana the following February the
cause was argued before that tribunal One
month later the decision was announced,
with the order OF the Supreme Court that
the Judgment OF the lower court be reversed
and the indictment Quashed. Justices
brewer and Brown dissented. In the opin-
lon OF the Supreme Court II was stated
that the Indictment found against Petitions
and others did not with sufficient clearness
set forth that II was the intention OF tho
miners to obstruct the administration Of
Justice by a violation of the Injunction. II
was also held that the Indictment did not
charge that the defendants were ever served
with process, brought into court or in any
way hotined OF the issuance OF the writ
Tempestuous Occurrences.
Although the records OF that famous case
now in existence in the District Of Column
bia do not show further particulars of the
tempestuous occurrences in the Occur
d'Alene district before. during and after
the conspiracy trial. the references in
Judge Beatty's charge are sufficient to In
oicate In a fragmentary way the almost
unbridled lawlessness which prevailed at
that time. Judge Beatty merely referred
10 the events OF July IL. II and IS I'm
Frisco. but IT is related that those
events" included nothing less than the
dynamiting Of the magnificent separator at
that place, and that outrage would make
story in itself. 1t seems that the sepa-
rator plant lay In valley at Frisco. and
1t received its power by means OF fiume
and penstOck from a stream high I'D on the
mountain side. One day. and II is said to
nave been on July IL. 1892. the water in
the fiume was diverted and down the steep
smooth penstock pipe a tremendous charge
OF dynamite was lowered. The separator
was blown to atoms and the non unionist
operatives were killed. So great the
force OF the explosion that the mouth OF
the penstock, far up on the mountain
vomited forth debris and fragments OF the
iron piping as though II was the mouth OF
a cannon. Subsequently George A. Petit
bone appeared minus the thumb of one OF
his hands. and II was charged the digit
was shattered by the charge from the PEN
stock Pettibone told different story
something about the thumb having been
blown on in a cunning accident.
1t Is also said the experiences Of a Pin
kerton detective named Singleton, who
served as spy for tho mine owners. might
well form the basis for the plot OF novel
or narrowing adventures. Singleton went
into the mines as laborer when the
Occur d Alene trouble were brewing and
becoming member in one of the unions
he was elected one of its chief officers and
its representative to the central committee
He was secretary of this central commit
tee when many of its deepest plots were
laid and his copies of the records of that
body were said to be the most damnlng
evidence at the final expose. Scores OF
the miners were herded into one vast
corral ait the time of the arrest of the al
legged conspirators. and from the story told
by an eye witness ii Is said they leaped
like wolves for Singleton when he ap-
peared among them to identify the ring
leaders The detective saved himself aad
those who were with him only by draw
ing two revolvers from his pockets and
threatening with instant dealt. the first
man-to raise a hand.
Protected Day and Night.
During the trial and while he was walt
ing to testify. Singleton was protected day
and night by two armed guards When it
was all over and the convictions had been
secured. feeling ran 80 high against Sin
gleton that it was feared to have him de-
part from the place publicly, and for two
days he remained hidden In a cavity be-
meath the floor in his boarding house.
where his meals were stealthilt passed to
him until the opportunity arrived for him
to depart. From that moment SM sieton
dropped out of sight, and IL his superiors
in the Pinkerton service know of his where
abouts that fact is most Jealousy guarded
Kneebone, next to Singleton the most
important witness for the government, was
riddled with bullets before he could escape
the country, and many other equally har-
rowing tales might be related. but the story
would pail by its very weight of erue-
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