Show MI MINERS fAS UNION I Lf AS T IL T Jury Frees l Sherman Sherm n Parker and Thomas Foster l of Charge Of Conspiracy OHLY OUT A LITTLE WHILE WilliE I Ou Omi of or Verdict District Attorney Cases Cam Others Cripple Creek Colo Cob March jury In the tho tit conspiracy ease c ue against Sherman Parker ani Thomas Foiter Iro tor miners union leaders who were charged with aith Uh conspiring to wreck a Florence and Cripple Creek 1 cg r train 1 a 1 verdict of at not iLot GUilty miller after r brief deliberation After Atter slinking shaking hands with their attorneys and tha the members of the jury tho the defendant left the courtroom In company with President Ir of or the Western We tell Fede Federation ration lotion of ot lIn III and other union lead leaders ers er There Thero was no demonstratIon when whelm h the tho verdict was announced announce l lW W F Davis uso aso a u prominent union leader who ho was jointly accused 01 com coni purity In III the tho alleged conspiracy was ordered discharged Ly liy Judge sev S eral days da ago Immediately titter litter the tho announcement of the verdict v today the district l altar attorney attorney ney foiled the tho cases agaInst Sherman Parker larker W F 1 Davis and 11 H 11 H Me Mc In which they thoy WHO were charged with the overt act of train wrecking While the Jury aus nb ent train from the courtroom the district attorney also alBa the cases against Steve Adams W F I 1 Davis and Charles U 1 Kennison nil cli union leaders the latter being president dent of ot Miners Minors union No 10 40 O of ot Cripple Creek charging them with tho the murder of at Melvin Melvln Becks and ROll Charles Churl II Me Mc who were killed hilled by an nn explosion lon slon In the thc Vindicator mine shortly af nl after ter ler the tho miners strike In tile the district was commenced Thus ends three of the tha most sensa enaa sensational sensational lIonal criminal cases Involving prominent rami nent labor leaders leader and growing dl di out of strikes ever eer begun In Colorado All of at the tho men with the tho ex ox exception of ot McKInney are staunch unionists and several of ot them hold high positions In the Western Feder Federation Federation or of Miners which organization line has stood behind them throughout their trials |