Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-04-03
FLED TO SAVE HIS LIFE
HOnnded, Archie Phillips Says He
Hid for Months.

told by Archie Philips the loSt Wit
ness In the Steve Adams case. who
appeared In Portland this week after
a year OF hiding In the mountains of
British Columbia.
Believing he liz In constant peril
from assassIns. Phillips. II Is assert
ed. has lost all faith la omnipotence
of the power of the constituted au-
thorities 10 protect him. and has de-
eided to envelop himself In the fierce
white light OF publicity, tell all the
world his story, and, standing In the
center OF public interest, he believes
the agents OF the latter day angels
of death" may fear to creep upon him
with their deadly missiles OF dyna-
mite and nitrogiycerine.
Phillips was cruising in the Marble
creek district. Idaho. when his con-
nectlon with the celebrated case be-
gan, says a Portland report. Near
him was Jack simpkins, now fugi-
tive from justice as an accomplice OF
Harry Orchard and Steve Adams.
Tylcr's Body Found.
Fred Tyler had also filed on a
claim near sImpklns. One day Tyler's
dead body was found on the trail
Adams has stood trial twice on the
charge Of numbering Tyler. and once
confessed to the crime. Later he re-
pudlated the confession and the state
has not yet been able to do better
than secure a disagreement In the
case. The testimony OF Archie Phil
lips. asserts the district attorney. was
the missing link that caused his case
10 fall 10 the ground al the time OF
the second trial.
The night before the murder OF
Tyler, Steve Adams and Jack simp-
kins stayed at PHILIPPE cabin. Mrs.
Phillips gave them bottle OF horse
Fadish. When Tyler's body was
found this bottle was beside the
corpse. Mrs. Phillips identified It.
This was the link that connected
slmpkins and Adams with the muir
der, AZ the tune for Adams second
trial drew near Phillips began to re-
ceive threatening letters ordering him
from the country on the pain of death
n he failed TO obey
tie moved 10 Spokane and hoped
that he had evaded his prosecutors.
Then he went back into the woods.
Two men visited Mrs, Phillips. They
told her that Phillips would be killed
In week II he did not leave the
country. She sent for her husband
and he returned to Spokane
Finds fsoX ~ Dynamite.
A few days later he found box Of
dynamite concealed tn the woodpile
back OF his house. That afternoon
he met sherin Harvey Brown. the
man who arrested Adams, To Brown
Phillips showed his letter.
brown then showed him pack
age. Apparently they came from the
same source,
What are You going to dor"
queried Phillips.
Increase my life insurance and
stay home. said Brown. lie aid SO,
and he died An internal machine
killed him In September.
hut Phillips thought differently
from brown. Perhaps he was en-.
dowed with more wisdom az 20 the
methods OF his enemies, He closed
his home and dropped from sight,
Subpoena servers. Pnkerton men aud
police searched for him In vain CIR.
cular letters. advertisements and re.
wards failed 20 bring him out.
Phillips says he loves life. his wife
and his children, The district attor-
ney announced that his case was
shattered without Phillips testimony
but this did not affeot Phillips any
more than tho offers Of reward,
lie buried bis track still deeper
and slipped farther away into the
wild mountains of Canada
Dceides Ia Come Hack.
But 10 DAYS ago he decided to
come hack to his family lie thought
that now that the state had failed to
convict Adams. the friends of Adams
would let him alone,
Scarcely had he reached Portland
when the news Of the attempt on the
life OF Bulkeley Wells was flashed
over the wires and Phillips knew that
the dynamite band was still at work
Desperate. he decided to risk all or
a single play. tell the story of hi:
fear OF danger to the world and def,
the men who have bounded him from
his country to do 50 again.
.If they get me. they set me. " wss
his comment. They know where