Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-02-25 | Page 10 | Detective Tells of Confessions

DETECTIVE TELLS OF CONFESSION IJ Jllno-Ownera' Sleuth. Tostilies in the P Trial of Alleged Train Wreckers at Cripple Creek. Is : . CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Fob. 24. K. c. Sterling, sccrot service nRcnt of tho l' Mine Owners' association, waa tho prlncl- 1 pal witness today In tho trial of Sherman ' Parker, W. F. Davis and Thomas Foster, vj officials of tho local Miners' union, on 3 trial charged with conspiracy to wreck a -J . Floronco & Cripple Creek passenger train. A Sterling testified to receiving informa- Vt tlon from Charles Beckman, also In tho I employ oC tho Mine Owners' association, i but posing as a union sympathizer, that :A a plan had been perfected to wreck the ' train on a certain night In November. 3 Ilo described the placo whore, ho enmo J upon tho alleged train wrcckors at work, j their flight and subsequent arrest. Ho gavo testimony concerning: tho con- i fceBloh acciired from Charles McKlnney, as well as a map of tho location of tho 4 abandoned shaft whero tho tools used by I tho alleged conspirators were hidden. Ho 1 subsequently secured tho articles from tho shaft, ho said. 4 Charles Beckman was also on the stand 2 again today. He donled. on cross-oxaml- 4 nation, that he had been employed by tho Mlno Owners' association to Induce union S men to commit acts of violence In order I to give excuso for an appeal to tho Fcd- cral Government for troops Several other witnesses corroborated provlous tcstl- j i mono.