Show ACCUSED OF AWFUL CRIME pearl skelton charged with causing dynamite ort at inde pen dence pearl skelton has been taken to cripple creek colo from pueblo on a warrant charging him with the murder of the fourteen men who were killed by the explosion at In depend ence station june 6 skelton who left cripple creek after the explosion was arrested on the medill ranch near rye station in pueblo county sheriff bell said that skelton had talked a great deal about the explosion but he did not know what evi dence bad been obtained toi connect him with the crime skelton protested his innocence and said that h would have no difficulty tn proving an alibi the warrant for skelton was sworn out by sheriff bell who had received information that skelton had been boasting that he knew who caused the explosion at independence skelton was a member of the free coinage miners union and had worked tn several mines in the district |