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Show G0HP5S5ES DYNAMITING x f 1 1 1 Dercrted -HIner Jeljs of , Plot to Kill ficn-Unlon Men. TOPS K A. ICaru, Sept Robert Romaln. a deported Colorado miner, under arrest her for burglary, confessed that ha helped in the Vindicator mine dynamiting In Colorado last fall and in Mowing up the depot platform In Independence, Colo., last June. Romaln said that ha was on of the kttlkars at Victor and that he helped to arrange the dynamlta which caused the death f so many non-union miners. .Ha tare th names of the men wh were with hbn and told lb detail how the work waa dona . Romain said the dynamite was laid under un-der ta depot platform at Independence. H. told how the dynamita was connected with a concealed wire to a chair la a room about tot yards away. It was agreed that th chair was to be moved backward so as to pull the wire and explode th dy- 1 ramlta. A pistol was attached to one end of the wire and the pistol was directly ; Under th big charge or dynamite. , Romaln was waiting In tbe room With th. others when th train pulled up to Ut , Station and saw two of his friend among the number. He wanted to get them away End started to tell them to tear th plat orm, when one of the men wee was with ilm struck him on the head with a revolver. revol-ver. The dynamite charge waa exploded a few minutes after Ward and the friends of Romaln were killed or Injured. - In his description of the laying of the dynamite at the Vindicator mine he went Into details abeat th different shift and told all about how the wire were laid. , Romain pleaded guilty to th charg of burglary, but Was . not sentenced. The Colorado authorities were communicated communi-cated with and Romaln will probably be taicea there. . - . |