| Show yr W DYNAMITER IN PRISON independence DYNAMITE PLOT HAS AS BEEN RE REVEALED one cf ef he gang of assa of nom no union mei men in colorado mining town contests Cont esea to awful crime B JP alias robert romaine Rom alne a prisoner in the shawnee county kansas jail has mado made a confession before tho the county attorney giving de tails of tho the preparations to blow up the florence cripple creek railroad depot at independence coo co and also tho the plot for tho the carrying out of tho the plan to blow up tho the vindicator mine the depot was destroyed by nitro gly cerine on an june 7 1904 and thirteen people were blown to pieces and the vindicator mine was blown up november vember 21 1903 romaine in his confession s slid stid tid 1 I left canon city and went to cripple creek on tho the esth of october 1903 and hung around there until along the farst part of november and went to work on the golden cycle mine under superintendent perin holman olman II tho the next night after I 1 went to work I 1 got in with a gang of fellows who asked me to join the union and act as a spy around the goiden gaden cycle and vindicator mines they were after superintendent Superintend eat holman I 1 could not find any way to get in there as they wanted and told them so but a few evenings after the vindicator mine was blonn blon up by a dynamite ne furnished by me about the middle of may I 1 ro oed d to canon city and got a can of I 1 ine and feet of wire I 1 had I 1 in there on the night of june f C wag was planned to blow up the crippa u acet depot so the next evening 1 yot got the glycerine and wire and with tin an iron prong about ten inches long and about four inches wide at the top with two boles holes in there far enough apart to catch a pistol back of the hammer so that you could tie tic a string to the hammer and cot not interfere with it I 1 I 1 and another man crept under the platform and fixed things running the wiro wira to the shaft feet away wa we too foo ed around until the 10 train came in I 1 saw some of my friends there and realized that the they 7 would be killed I 1 did my best to run down and get this thing so it would not go off and when they saw what I 1 was trying to do one man grabbed me and struck me with his pistol on the eye and again behind the ear where I 1 have scars now from those blows and I 1 was knocked unconscious for a short time when I 1 came to again everybody in cripple creek was around there and there was great excitement then I 1 got out of the tawn as quickly as possible that was the esth and on the night of the ath we all walked down to colorado Sp ringi and got there about 6 5 or G the next morning enree of the men bought tickets for pueblo and I 1 think they went west on the night of the ath at I 1 took the santa fe train for the cast east 11 |
