Show DYNAMITER IN PRISON independence DYNAMITE PLOT HAS BEEN REVEALED one of he gang of assassins of non union men in colorado mining town Confes es to awful crime I 1 B 11 alias allas robert romaine a prisoner sonar la in the shawnee county kansas jail has made a confession before the county attorney giving details of the preparation preparations to blow up the florence Ss cripple creek railroad depot at sit independence co 0 and also the plot tor for the carrying out ot of the plan to blow up the vindicator mine the depot was destroyed by nitroglycerine on june 7 1904 and thirteen people were blown to pieces and the vindicator mine was blown up november 21 1903 I 1 romaine in hie his confession said 1 I left canon city and went to cripple creek on the ath of october 1903 and hung around there until along the first part of november and went to work on the golden cycle mine under su sis holman the next night after I 1 went to work I 1 got in with a gang of fellows follows who asked me to join the union and act as a spy around the go den cycle and vindicator mines they were after superintendent 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 blown up by a dynamite machine furnished by me about the middle of may I 1 returned to canon city and got a can of glacer ine and feet of wire I 1 had bid in there on the night of june 6 it was planned to blow up the cripple creek depot so the next evening I 1 got the glycerine and wire and with an iron prong about ten inches long and about tour four inches wide at the top with two holes in there tar far enough apart to catch a pistol back of the hammer so that you could tie a string to the ham mer and not interfere with it I 1 and another man crept under the platform and fixed things running the wire to the Delmon Delmo leo shaft feet away we around until the 10 0 clock train came in I 1 saw some ot of my fr friende I 1 ends there and real realized I 1 zed that they would be killed I 1 did my best beat to run down and get got this thing so it would not go off and when they saw what I 1 was trying to do one man grabbed me and end struck me with his pistol on the eye and behind the ear where I 1 have scars now from those blows and I 1 waa was knocked unconscious for a short time when I 1 came to again every body in cripple creek was around there them and there was great excitement then I 1 got out of the town as quickly as possible that was the ath and on the night of the ath we all walked down to colorado springs and got there about 6 5 or 6 0 clock the i morning three of the men bought ticket tickets for pueblo aad and I 1 think they went west on the sight night of the esth at 6 30 1 I took the santa fe train for the bajt |