Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-12-02
Chief WiIkie Investigating XIII
ing of Secret Service Agent
Walker by Colorado Coal
Mine Superintendent,
WHOLESALE SUBP0ENAS
ISSUED FOR WITNESSES
Detailed Report on Case Which
is Believed to Reveal Murder
Conspiracy TO Be Submitted
to President Roosevelt.

Denver, Dec. 1.-THE News tomor-
row will say that Chief Wilkie, of the
United states secret service, is in pos
session of mass Of evidence, some OF
which will be verified by witnesses
and much more of a circumstantial
nature. that ten men are involved in
the alleged conspiracy to murder
United States Secret Service Agent Jo-
seph Walker, who was killed at the
Hesperus mine near Durango, Colo,
recently by a miner named Wander
weide, while In search of evidence TO
be used I'm the prosecution of men in
dieted on the charge of defraudng the
government out of valuable coal lands.
Chief WlllSie is preparing detailed
report which will be submitted 10
President Roosevelt, on his request, at
an early date.
Since the killing of Walker several
weeks ago thirty men from the gov
ernment secret service have been IN
the neighborhood of the killing gath
ering evidence and when Chief Wilkie
visited that section a few DAYS ago a
full report was made to him The
claim that walker was shooting at
son, OF the Hesperus mine. who was
with Vanderweide az tho tim, jhe lat.
ter killed Walker. has always been
secuted by the government agents on
the theory that IL would have been
impossible 10 have shot Walker IN the
manner he was hit had he been facing
the men and shooting at them. Fol-
lowing this view they made efforts TO
ascertain If there were others present
at the time of the shooting. and have
learned that four other men. all armed
with rifles. We're near by and We're
present. they claim for the purpose
of carrying out the alleged plan to
murder Walker 1t Is further asserted
on good authority that the names Of
these four men are I'm the possession
of the government representatives, and
that they viii be apprehended in due
time. The Local branch of the de-
partment Of justice, at whose head Is
l.. c. Wheeler, has already served
nineteen subpoenas upon persons re-
quiring them to appear before the
federal grand jury. which will meet
on December II, and has about
dozen more to serve. or the persons
already served. il is said that several
are under suspicion Of being con-
nected with the alleged conspiracy to
Kill walker. An effort 10 verify the
above through Mr.. Wheeler and
United States District Attorney Earl
Cranston. was unavailing. both men
refusing to confirm or deny the story.
Another development In the invcsti-
CATION of the Walker killing is the fact
that an effort win be made to prose-
cute Nanderweide and Mason. who are
now charged with murder. in the fed
eral court. This will be attempted
under sections 5bg and E5q of tho giViI
rights statute, which makes II an Of
Tense to interfere with the duties OF
government officers. or for two or
more men TO conspire 10 effect such
and makes II possible to
prosecute In the federal court under a
state statute where such Interference
results In the commission Of a felony.
Should the federal court take cogni-
zance Of this contention the Colorado
law providing capital punishment
would be made to apply.