The sun., 1908-04-05

70 In Adams's confession, we're two mem
Oers OF the federation much employed IN
acts OF violence. This is the manner In
which Adams described the killing Of Arthur
Collins, Detective Mcfarland and bis
stenographer being the Witnesses
After a while Art Baston and Ed Minister
went oycI ;i.o.e 20 Telluride. was then
near Telluride and they told me they wanted
Arthur Collins killed | asked who wanted
II done and they said Haywood and Meyer
Il asked how much and they said thou.
sand dollars, and Minister gave me 10 uUder-
stand that Il did not help him do this or
| DO II myself l would never want another
| Job, ! understood by this that N | did
not help would be killed
so Ed Minister and |, after receiving a
| few instructions from Baston, went to
work on the job located Collins and carried
out the deed. We worked along, trying
to get sight Of Collins. | did not know
the man-never had seen him. l went
out with Ed Minister, as he claimed he knew
Collins. but we never could get to see him,
he and together
$50 went to work In the cyanide plant
there In the Smuggler Union mill One
day Mr.. Collins came down there to the
plant. heard them call him Mr.. Collins
and knew who he was. worked along
after that q short while. and finally went to
work under a man named Hogan, who ran
the elevator In the dock gang.
After | saw Mr.. Collins there and got
some money drew my time and quit work
! went down TO board at the Mary Malone
boarding house. Baston and Minister were
there, but Ed Minister was called away
TO President Davis's trial at Altman.
Il had been up there several nights and
every night tried TO see Collins. | wanted
10 see him on the trail II could IL seemed
impossible'to meet him that way. 80 took
a shotgun which BastOn gave me and went
up there to Collins's house
Il saw him sitting az a table playing
cards with his back to the window. There
were four people sitting at the table Op.
posite Collins sat lady facing toward Col
llns and the window.
"On Collinss left there was another
lady and on his right another man.
made three trips to the vicinity OF the
window that night before got a chance
TO shoot Collins without hitting the lady
opposite him or some Of the others at the
table.
"The third time went up close to the
window and waited few minutes Pretty |
soon Collins sat up straight In his chair, |
and the man on Collins's right leaned away |
back on his chsh They had evidently |
finished a hand OF tie game.
AT the same time the lady opposite Col |
Inns leaned to her right and looked at the |
other lady's hand Icardsl This left Collins !
In clear spaoe by himself and shot him. |
did not want to injure any Of the party
eIcent Collins.
Collins fell to the floor with his back full
Of buckshot He died almost instantly.
Adams hurried away and went back TO his
room after burying the gun In a spot
where il was subsequently found.
or Courg' ~ repudiated this and all Of his
other conf 6sions, but there are strong
hopes i"". can be convicted by state
ments Il" lie 70 other people. His con-
fession further stated that Minister and
Baston gave him the $1,000 promised and
said it cane from Haywood who had said
il was a good Job.
Gen. Wells is still firm in his determination
TO stay at his work in Telluride.
Il do not intend TO be driven out = he says,
my work is here and / shall stay
The man who has so relentlessly pursued
The evildoers Of the federation and who
Is 80 cordially hated by the inner circle
Ia a fine example OF one who prefers hard
shin and social isolation in the perform
ince Of what he conceives 10 be his duty
10 more congenial surroundings elsewhere.
He is young good looking well born, ac-
10 the good things Of life, a good
tAllh HiANfiH ~ AAHH IiAllb aAlAia-
lard at the game in the season every year
Il Glenwood Springs, an expert at bridge
md an all around athlete.
There is as vet no clue 10 the identity
4 the would-be assassin, Gan, Wells did
lot return to his house that night until
early midnight. The bomb exploded a
title over two hours later. The house had
'een entered by means Of a ladder through .
second story window.
The bomb was placed under the bed and
must have been operated by clookwork
o as to time the explosion Gen. Wells's
scape from death is remarkable He was
urled fifteen feet the bed on which he
lept was demolished, the windows Of the
pom were blown out and hole three feet
l diameter was made in the floor. Yet
is injuries consisted only OF bruises and
cratches.
And Haywood delivers lectures in New
ork churches.