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Show SENSATION' v AMGTOR Alleged Plot 'to Destroy the Mine-Owners and Others at That Place. i VICTOR, Colo., June 8. Two hemp ropes, knotted lth a ' noose .fdr hanging, "wefe lylr.ff' on a table In a room where the Cripple Creek district Mine-Owners' . association held heated discussion yesterday behind closed doors. The members were greatly Incensed In-censed by the discovery of what they regarded as evidence of the existence of a plot In the Victor Miners' union for wholesale assassinations of mine-owners mine-owners and miners. This evidence was a bundle of forty marked photographs found by Lieut. Keegan In the union hall. On the back of some of the photographs pho-tographs was the name of James Cochrane, Coch-rane, secretary of the union. The photographs were groups of men employed In various mines. The most Important was a group of the night shift of the Vindicator. The photograph photo-graph contains about twenty portraits, five of which were numbered from one to five. On the back of the picture were written the names of the persons numbered. Of the five names, those of Charles McCormlck and Mel. Beck had been crossed out. These two were men killed in the Vindicator explosion ex-plosion last November. On other photographs, pho-tographs, similarly arranged, it Is asserted, as-serted, there are crossed out the names of some of the men who have disappeared disap-peared and whose whereabouts or departure de-parture are unknown. James Cochrane was arrested and taken ta-ken Into the Mine-Owners' headquarters headquar-ters for a hearing. "I do not know anything any-thing about these pictures," he said, except that they were taken to show the scabs. The marks by the names of the men who have been killed are mysterious mys-terious to me. I was not present when the pictures were taken and cannot tell you any more about It." |