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Show GUPIRJICY CHARGED TO DISRUPT GUARD Governor of Colorado Makes Public Part of Re-; Re-; port on Matter. DENVER, Colo.. Aug. 31. A conspiracy con-spiracy to disrupt the National Guard of Colorado and to secure wholesale indictments in-dictments of state officers and coal mine operators was charged in a partial report re-port of the military court of inquiry made public tonight by order of Governor Gov-ernor George A. Carlson. The alleged conspiracy, according to the report, was entered into by a party of detectives under the direction of A. M. Belcher of West Virginia, general gen-eral counsel for tho United Mine Work-era Work-era of America, and C. D, Elliott, former adjutant general of West Virginia. The portion of the report made public pub-lic tonight was issued by Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Boughton, a member mem-ber of the military court investigating various charges against Adjutant Gen eral .Tohn Chase and other officers of the National Guard of Colorado. It was a part of the partial findings which already al-ready have been reported to the governor. gov-ernor. On Arrival of Party. According to this report, the- Belcher party arrived in Colorado on or about May 38, 1915. It consisted of Belcher, Robert Carruthers (also known as H. W. Coats) C. D. Elliott and several womnu, including a Miss Florence Jenkins. Tin-report Tin-report incuudes a letter signed by Coats, ilated August 14, which reads in part: "The total operators employed at present are twenty eight male and seven female. 1 ' A letter signed by Belcher, included in the report, is addressed to "Mr. R. W. Coats, alias Carson, alias Carruthers, alias Carter and then some aliases." The report charged that the Belcher party planned to secure indictments against Governor Carlson, Attorney General Fred Karrar, Adjutant General Chase and other high officials of the national guard, as well as certain coal operators. The original plan, according' to the report, was to inouce District Attorney J. J. Hendrick at Trinidad to file direct informations. Later, it is alleged in the findings, this plan was given up in favor of one involving ttc returning of indictments by a federal grand jury. Scope of the Plan. Certain local officers of the United Mine Workers of America, the court declared, did not approve of this a! leged plan to secure indictments. The report charged that it wag planned to use the prospective indictments in order to secure the dismissal of charges against union leaders in the recent coal miners ' strike. A letter from Coatfl to Belcher, in dulled in the report, said: We are already securing a lot of assistance from ex -officers of the guard and influential business meu to secure results. Another letter, credited in the report lo Coats and addressed to Belcher, contained con-tained this statement: I sincerely hope you secured the statements at the war depart ment (Continued on Page Three.) CONSPIRACY CHARGED TO DISRUPT 001 (Continued from Page One.) which I wired you about, aa we have our man Chase in a very compromising position. He and governor are doinp all they can to recruit the guard, and T am doing all I can to undo their work. The findings include a letter signed by Elliott, which referred to a plan to indict "the attorney general, the prosecuting prose-cuting attorneys, the coal operators and other high officials of the government govern-ment (sic) for a conspiracy to railroad one side of tho late controversy to the gallows or the penitentiary." Vetoed by Officers. Several days before the Colorado supreme su-preme court handed down its recent ruling barring Judge Granbv Hillver from presiding at future strike trial's a Tenver newspaper published a forecast of the decision. The military court, in its report, declared that upon the publication pub-lication of this forecast authority was asked from the main office of the L'nited Mine Workers of America to emplov a publicity agent at an expenditure expendi-ture of $1500 a week to give the forthcoming forth-coming opinion the widest possible publicity. pub-licity. The report added that this design de-sign apparently was vetoed by the union officers, as the publicity- agent was not employed. The court of inquiry charged that the Belcher detectives presented evidence to Roy O. Sahipsoo, a special agent of the department of justice, in an effort to secure federal indictments of national na-tional guard officers The portion of the report made public did not reveal under what federal statute the alleged prospective 'indictments were to be asked. |