| 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 F alias robert romagne a prisoner in the shawnee county kansas jail has made a confession before the county attorney giving details of the preparations to blow up the florence cripple creek railroad depot at independence co and also the plot for the carrying out of the pan to blow up the vindicator mine the depot was destroyed by nitro gly cerine on june 7 1904 and thirteen people were blown to pieces and the vindicator mine was blown up november 21 1903 romagne in his confession eald 1 I left canon city and went to cripple creeh on the eth of october 1903 and hung around there until along the first part of NOT ember and went to work on the golden cycle mine under su perin holman the next night after I 1 went to work I 1 got in with a gang of fellows who ailed 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 hid in there on the night of june 6 it was planned to blow up the cripple a depot so the next evening I 1 got the glycerine and wire and with an iron prong about ten inches long and about four inches wide at the top with two holes in there far enough apart to catch a pistol bach 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 tha wire to the shaft feet away we footed around until the 10 clock train came in I 1 saw some of friends there and realized that they would ba 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 eya and again behind the ear where I 1 have scars now from those blows and I 1 wae wa e knocked for a short time when I 1 came to again every body in cripple creek was around there and there was greist excitement chwa I 1 sot out of the town as quickly possible that was the ath and oa the night of the ath we all walked down te colorado springe and got there abent 6 or 6 clock the neit morning three of the men louitt ticket tor pueblo and I 1 think they went west on the night of the ath at 6 SO I 1 took the santa fe train for the baat |
