| Show 49 STEVE arime committed six years ago in struggle between miners and M ne owners laid to strikers telluride colo what is aid to lithe sl eleton of W barney the timbe employ ed on the smuggler union mine who a ly digap feared in the month of june 1901 was exhumed thursday afternoon near the alta mill near gold king basin twelve miles from town by gen bull el wells manager ct the smuggler union mining company and others according to wells account the re mains were found in an grave and its was pointed out b steve adams now in jail in idaho awaiting a second trial on the charge of murder when he was here m june in fie custody of wells A part of the body or sl e eton in eluded the teeth and that portion by which ild could be most read establish est ablis ed vas brought to town by gen wells barney incurred the til will of the union here by working at the smug gler mine afar the e in april 1801 it was this strike that caused the riots of july 3 of that ear adams is said to have told wells that bar ney s body was stripped of his cloth ing which was buried in another place while here in 1906 adams is said to have pointed out to wells the tree in the darkness of which he claimed to hae stood when he fired the charge of buckshot into the back of manager collins he is also said to have told wells where he threw the cartridge after removing it from the gun dr lord a local dentist after ex the teeth of the skeleton brought in by general wells identified them as belonging to barney he had performed certain dental work tor barney and was able to identity the skeleton from this it is reported that warrants will be issued tor two men who were aromi nent in the local union of the western federation of miners when barney dis appeared steve adams who con fessel to complicity in the murder ol 01 barney in his general confession made in idaho but afterwards reau dialed told general wells according to the batters statement of the man ner in which barney was made way with and it Is upon this recital of details that the warrants are to be sworn to |
