Show STEVE ADAMS IN JAil JAilA A Man ITan WIlD Who C to J Many Atro Atrocious cious Some Fur nit re r in ut Utah h Camp HIS SANITY au QUESTIONED vAS AS NOT A MEMBER OF PARK CITY UNION t to f Park PaTk Olty Utah Ig Steve Adams ta Steve DIckson alIas Adam teve s and numerous other a aliases who ho is now before the limelight in as a 3 confessed accomplice of Harry Harr r Orchard In numerous escapades wherein the Uv of others Were heed and planned to be sacrificed was In fn Park City during the spring and part Pr pf the month of June and during his stay here he got his name on the criminal dOcket ot of the city justices ourt The fellow came here he said from Colorado in company with a wo woman woman man of numerous m adventures adventures tures who at that date was playing paying an engagement a the wife of Adams Alter After securing a small house on avenue and starting to keep V iU fF I 0 4 r r I T I I f Li Md STEVE ADAMS Alias lias Steve Dickson Who Confesses That He Was Harry Orchards Ac Accomplice Accomplice in Several Criminal Deals house Adams secured work at the theD D lv Yest mIne He ws thore but a time when on the ith of June ie while the family of Arthur Hooper were e away on th Miners Union ex at Lagoon Adams or Stevens Steens liS s he was known made a successful ort to get info jail by robbing the Hooper house of its furniture HIs His SanIty Q Questioned r sanit was questioned a while he was sas here as this piece Of r thievery and numerous other little seemed to point quite strongly to a weakness in the re reasoning power of the fellow His rObbery was made In the middle of the Uie day and he deliberately carried the furniture so stolen fr frOth on One house to the other in inthe inthe the presence of the neighbors When then Hooper arrived he had the fellow ar arrested rested and for a little while it looked had bad for Adams as there WM wes thoughts of s him up for housebreaking However his wife made such a talk to the complaining witness of her pov poverty poverty erty absolute dependence upon Adams for lor a lIvIng that the was finally reduced to petit larceny and upon this charge before JUdge W S Lockhart Adams was trIed and son sen sentenced to p pay a 0 tine fine of 10 O or fifty days in the city jail jaU Thre Pals Got Him Out During all this time three men who came here wIth Adams and his wife in interested them themselves more than ordinarIly to secure the fine and before the trial secured counsel for their friend Th three r fellows went erit a a v van ety of nar names s while here and they with Adams left town just as soon as he got put Of Jan jail After Adams was put In jail His at attorney attorney torney advised that he tell the court his true name nama and at the sd that his true name was Ste Stephen Stephen phen Adams Talked of Many Crimes Before the trIal of Adams he talked quite freely of his Ute life and experiences and to several he be stated that he h had been In Cripple Creek all d during the trouble there that he had been on the inside of the workings of the unIon and that he had been one of three to assassinate the three judges o of the supreme court of Colorado Gov Governor Governor Peabody and Adjutant General Sherman Bell He said sald that he had i been in the bullpen in Cripple Creeks Creek and that It was I he e who placed the loaded and cocked revolvers In the shaft at the Independence mine during the strike His tale of crime covered a multitude ot of advent adventures res Including assisting In the th J of numer numerous numerous ous bombs sot set to kill people who were were passing The picture taken in Idaho oin In which the man sought to disfigure himself is recognIzed by many here as being a photo ot of Adams the man of the ex cx penances but those who knew the man here are of the same opinion that they hold held while listening to his weird stories of murder and adventure and feel more fully convInced now that the man is crazier than ever before DId Not Belong to to Park UnIon Adams was not a member of the Miners union while here and was un Unknown known knon to the officIals of that organization tion in town The woman who was wIth him told also of won wonderful adventures but her experiences were along the nial line She claImed to have been married four times tims A Adams ams being No 4 Her first husband WItS was taken by death but the others in their p added quality to her story While she he never told their names she said that she had Jad been dIvorced from two one of these now being in the thc Colorado penI penitentiary while the other was vas killed In Crede Cob Colo a few years ago Drank Much Whisky Adams himself while here displayed a ar r rare re appetite for whisky being drunk whenever the opportunity afforded it itself Itself self He left no un unpaid ald bills because the stores of the town did not trust hIm The man made an effort to secure the fun full amount of his bail money after be beIng lug Ing sentenced but failed in thIs He was finally let go on the payment of 2 upon the stated agreement that he was to leave town which he did the day he was released ed and from that time until he was heard of in connection with the Orchard case people who knew him here forgot all about him him |