Show TALKED OF BULL PEN An Electrical Engineer Tells Story to Committee STARTLING STATEMENT MADE I Declares He was Tortured by Soldiers i Jn Order to Extort a Confession Regarding Re-garding Knowledge as to who Destroyed l De-stroyed tho Bunker Hill MillAt Another Time Ho Stated that an j Offer to Bribe Him was Made if He Would Implicate Two Persons in the Conspiracy l Washington March 12 L J Simp klns an electrical engineer at AVard ncr Ida testified In the Coeur dAlene Investigation before the 11 mine Com j I I mlttec on Military Affairs today He said he did not purliclpate In tile riot but soon after thut I event lie wan ar rested by a squad of United Stales troops who went about the flreets arresting ar-resting those persons pointed out by Bunker Hill mine Bpotlera Two spectators on Hie streets vho stopped to see the soldiers nnd their prisoners Were promptly l arrested and put with the other prinoiierH The witness said one of the prisoners a Swede WtS taken with a fit wheiv upon u iif ro soldier struck him senseless sense-less wllh I the bull of a gun The corporal cor-poral I of ihc guard t came up and Lu Ill tug over the fallen man auld I guess youve lixcd that fellow all right CAlSKS A SENSATiON Slmpkins said one of the prisoners was robbed of 390 One of Slmnkfnss recitals onusod something of a sonsu llon He paid he sag taken from Ito bull pen by a mjuad of four soldiers and marched lo an open imloHiiiv I where bo tits plncml with I t his bark against a building l I I fie soldiers xieppod back and corked Lhclr gunt apparent ly I making ready lo sliool him At this point he said a high olDilnl of the I Bunker Illll I I I mine apprarod nnd said i they I had evidence enough to hang the t witness t or send him I up I f t r i many yeais but If he would tell who blew up tin mill I he would bi turned loose SI in phi 115 said be proustod lhal t he did not know who thr t guilty I I I parlies wtrn and the effort to get evidence from him WUH finally I I given up AN ATTEMPT TO BRIBE The witness I stated that I at t another time bllo In I Hie I bull pen a parly who bald lie IVILS uulhorizid by an uf llclal offered him JIOOCO I to 1 Implicate I two persons In ihe t blowing up of ihe mill Tho party said ll did nol triaL ten much who were I III ph lea ted but I llio names of corlnin I miners I and ihe oti IIi ty II-i Assessor were given whom II was most desired lo Implicate I for t lie purpose I pur-pose the witness said of hanging them or getting them t nut of the country Ho said he afterward learned I thai t tho A a Hcfsor had had trouble vI Lit lie I I3unkcr Hill mine I over their I i assessment ti ALLKGES CRUELTY The witness I deti I led an inlcnlcw I with nn army olllctr In which the Inl ler declined lu permit I I a prlesl lo be sumoioiiod m to I one I of Ihc t piihonera who Aas dying und also refused lo allow him tocommunlcJiti t with I t his un it mar US lo 1 Ito disposition of his proj0rly He iiettti led ninny ot tier Inslancxs I of al I leged Lrinlly Ono < jf his recitals was aa lo a brief visit by Oi n Mirrlnm to ihe bull pen and lie I refusal I to allow prisoners to communicate wllh him SHOOTING OF JOHNSON In lelllng of tIle shooting of Johnson the prisoner who went lunatic UK wit ness contributed additional testimony that while Johnson was running away a certain mlno olllcial shouted Shool shoot and the soldiers accordingly shot The witness said he helped dig the tunnel Intended as a means of escape as ho was dying by inches He nlno gave his experience on the standing line and while In salllnry onilncmeiu OBJECTED Tu V QUESTION When Representative Sulxer v lit di rected the L exam I flit t ion asked I tho w ll ncsJ concrrnlng this Siberia of nor rons objections wore made lo the churacterlyatlon bul on a vote t tile cottinii tee permitted I rliu question |