The sun., 1919-05-25

But the Irish Javert was not the
man in 1875 he had been in 1873,
He had grown old, his stomach was
derengcd by the bad liquor he had
been forced to swallow. his nerves
had gone back on him. Although
not an old man. he seemed to have
arrived at the superannuated age. So.
IL would seem he was considered by
his employees to have done. they gave
lin easy work. conN entional jobs that
any detective and not a Sherlock
Holmes was needed 10 do, In 1924
he was put in charge OF Pinkerton's
Western division and told that he
might lead a quiet life. :
Indeed, the detective seemed to be
dozlng away his declining days, but
ills was only seeming. What was
necessary to call into active life was
a great occasion and IL was not long
in coming.
Another Big Job.
In 1898 the Western Federation of
Miners was organized In Butte, Mon.
For long time there had been trouble
in the Cuur d'Alene district Assas-
sinauons. poisoninss and dynamitings
ia pititu NNi al ihiiN WI
fancy he was living over again the
lawless days of his Pennsylvania OK
periencc. Mine owners. managers.
superintendents. lived in constant fear
OF death by violence and the police
were powerless to protect them. The
militia WAS called out, but it succeeded
no better In laying bare the ring
leaders,
To be briefly incidental, a cage filled
with miners dropped by accident
down the Independence shaft l,4OO
feet. At the Independence station,
Cripple Greek, fourteen miners were
blown to atoms by dynamite On De-
cember so, 1905, ex-Gov. Frank Steu-
n, nberg of Idaho was blown to pieces
by dynamite az he was stepping into
his yard in Caldwell, Idaho. The coun-
try was aroused by these acts of
| wholesale murder, but the police and
the soldiery both had failed to dis
close the perpetrators. and the as
sassins pursued their inhuman course
of slauehtering by individuals and by
hundreds untcrrihed, They reckoned
themselves safe by mere organization
and force OF numbers.
MS was NlF oNNufipi 'huN NV '''
slcuth had waited for He appeared
old no longer, and once again he went
mining as he had gone in his younger
days. Not as James Mcfarland, but
as a bluff and cordial miner I'm sym
pRthy with tho schemes of the Fed
Grafton, he went among them and ran
to earth the famous elmer circle
He found out who had done each job
and traced no fewer than twenty-siX
| murders to their principals
A document exists. tho confession
II Harry Orchard, which for cold hor
ror and the depths that humanity can
iCsCend IN crime is quite unrivalled.
II. this confession tho simple art OF
lanes Mcfarland IL made plain. II
was to him that Orchard confessed.
How lie Got Orchards Confession.
When Mcfarland first met Orchard
he task Of getting from this hard
med criminal the clues which were
lead to arrests and punishments
,eemed hopeless. II did not prove so
20 the old actor. He lived with Or
| hard, made a friend OF him, trie'' 20
| Ircbe his nature for something u,her
| nan CRIME ~ last ne lounu WHAT
| he wanted. Orchard had been taught
W his mother in Detroit to believe in
'ho bible, to fear future punishment.
md the base of him was fear. On
| his Mcfarland worked, and he soon
earned all he needed to know. II i'm
| licated the members of that elmer
irclc," William d. Haywood, sccre-
AIRY of the organization; Charles IL.
Moyer, president OF the Western Fed
| ration, and G. 4. Pettibone, a popu-
| ar leader.
| To bolster the confession McPar-
and collected bombs and Internal
| machines where Orchard told him
hey had been prepared by the miners
md secreted. When he went into court
18th the gang his cvidbnce was with
Jut Jaw. Orchards confession had