Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-15 | Page 2 | Arguments on in Steve Adams Case

i ARGyiiENTS ON ill I SIEVE MIS CASE Attorney for Defendant Bitterly Denounces Gen. Wells and the Pinkertons. ' MTARLAND ARRIVES ON SCENE WITH MEN Report That Adams Will Bo Re- . arrested Should He Escape This Time. ' i OB AND JUNCTION, Colo., July 14. V I 1 Without introducing any evidence to . I "rebut Steve Adams' alibi, the state this i ' morning rested its case in Adams' trial j I on the charge of murdering Arthur Col- lius, the mine superintendent, who was ; shot at Tellurido on the night of No- " 1 vember 19, 1902. j . Arguments of counsel would have J been concluded tonight and tho case given to the jury, but the members of the .iury, to whom the court left, tho matter off holding a night session, voted 1 against it, and adjournment was taken ! until tomorrow morning, after instruc- ' tions to the jurj- had been read and all j argument made except the closing for j tho defense. : ;ffll l Hilton Grows Savage. ;'r)W'r;': The address of Attorney Hilton, chief . l'4S :'i ! counsel for Adams, was largely made : ( tm ' up of scathing denunciation of Gen- I ' yfi ! ' eral Wells, chief -witness for tho prose- ' !l ! cution, and the Pinkerton Detective r.-'lji! agency. He declared that a "class V l U war" was on one side being reprcsent- ii jJi od by men occupying the same social . I h '.' position as General Wells, and the other I.I if ; consisting of those who labor with their i ' hands. He predicted that a great gen- f j ; oral struggle would soon be on. Ai.-1 Ai.-1 1 j torney Hilton made a fierce attack 7 j ij , upon the Pinkerton agoucv, so blistcr-! blistcr-! H . jl ing in fact that Attorney Hogg for tho . J J u prosecution made a iwotest to tho court, jj.jjT, Hilton turned on him, shouting, "All ,V 'i- that is the matter with you is that I " am getting too closo to your hide." ! , w I Roast Is Not Evidence, j ' I Judge Shackleford warned the .iury V ' I that they must not consider Hilton 's r ' 5 : statements concerning the Pinkerion 1 1 agency as part of tho Adams case. 1 !J I Lato tonight James McParland and I t six assistants arrived here in company ; -j j , jf of Warden Whitney of tho Idaho state L penitentiary. It is reported that they ; : f are hero to re-arrest Adams in case of ,1 y i his acquittal of the charge of murder- 3; '; ing Arthur Collins. It is also reported ; ft that he will be charged with complicity - in the blowing up of the Independence M depot, near Cripplo Creek, Colo., when Vaji fourteen men were killed. This affair Kij? . occurred during tho strike in tho Crip- I fjj& pie Creek district several 3ears ago.