Show ADAMS S STORY OP TYlER MURDER Statement Made by Accused Man Soon After His Arrest is Introduced Intro-duced Despite Objections f f Confession Was Made to a Plnkerton Detective and Adams Lawyers 3 Contended hat it Had Not J Been Made Voluntarily I II nathdrmn Idaho Just before thi closing of Tuesdays session of court the confession of Steve Adams t member of the Western Federation a Miners on trial for his life for tho alleged al-leged murder of Prod Tyler In tin Marble Creek district of Shoshont county Idaho In August 1904 Will read to the jury It was the confessloi made to James McParland a Pinkerton Pinker-ton detective boon after Adams wuJ arrested in February 1900 and pu In the Dolse penitentiary In tho trnl of blood delineated In the confession of the defendant In the present action ho weaves an almost romantic tale Ii required a llltlo short of an hour lithe li-the rending It was admitted bj Judge Wood during McParlands dl rect examination Darrow objected on the ground that U hid not beet made voluntarily and that inducements Induce-ments and promises of leniency l had prompted It The confession of Steve Adams was made In the office of the warden ol ho Idaho penitentiary February 27 1900 In the presence of James McPar and a Pinkerton detective of Mollie McGulro fame and W D Hopkins rho defense claims that Adams wa induced to sign the document undci threats In the confession Adams declare fiat he was Intimately acquainted wltl VIoyer Haywood and Petti bono ant teals with preliminary talk about the iproposednssaBBnattpu of Governor steuncnberg This talk had occurrec shortly after the dynamiting of tho depot de-pot nt Independence In 1904 It was about a month after that Adams started for Idaho The talk had taker place In Pettlbones back room am < < besides Adams there had been presen Haywood and Pettlbono Quoting inn the confession They Just tell mo It go up and see SImpklns as he wantec to see me and he would probably tel me about the Steunenberg matter at they wanted to get Steunenberg Adams confession of tho murder Oi Tyler was as follows We went In one night Nowt Glover Alvah Mason and myself tc SImpklns cabin made some coffee and had breakfast and In the morning morn-Ing wo went over to try to catch Tyler In his cabin on Jack SImpklns claim Ho was gone so we laid there untl sundown He never returned and we started up to a spring and while we were drinking we heard some one coming I said All right I am glnc of It I got my Winchester and standIng stand-Ing by the side of tho trail novel moved I saw It was Tyler coming ho had a big gun buckled on him stepped out on tho trail and told hilT to throw up his hands Wo then dls armed him took him to SImpklns cabin and stopped there until morning when wo took him three miles out IT the timber and I killed him |