Show MIS HIS STOR BF OF MUM statement made by b accused mas mail soon after his arrest is introduced despite objections confess 0 on was made to a pinkerton Pinker tor detect ve and adams lawyers contended hat it had not been made voluntary Vol ly rathdrum Rath drum idaho just before the closing of tuesday tuesdays s session of court the confession of steve adams a member of the western federation ol 01 miners on trial for his life for the al lebed murder of fred tyler in the marble creek district of shoshone county idaho in august 1904 was read to the jury it was the confession made to james a pinker ton detective soon after adams was ai rested arrested in february and put in the boise penitentiary in the trail of blood delineated in the confession of the defendant in the present action he weaves eaves an almost romantic tale it required a little short of an hour in the reading it was admitted by b judge wood during McP arlands s di examination darrow objected on the ground that it had not been made voluntarily and atiat induce ments and promises of leniency had prompted it the confession of steve adams wa wai made in the office of the warden of 0 the idaho penitentiary february 27 1906 in the presence of james mccar land a pinkerton detective of mollie mcguire fame and W B hopkins the rhe defense claims that adams was induced to sign the document under threats in the confession adams declared that he was intimately acquainted with moyer haywood and pettibone and deals with preliminary talk about the proposed assassination of governor Go vernoi this talk had occurred shortly after the dynamiting of the de pot at independence in 1904 it wa about a month after that adam started for idaho the talk had place in pettibone s back room ane ani besides adams there had been presen haywood and pettibone quoting tron fron the confession they just tell me tc go up and see simpkins as he dantec to aee me and he would A probably tel me about the matter a the wanted to get enberg adams confession of the murder of tyler was aa as follows we went in one night newt glover alvah mason and myself tc simpkins cabin made some coffee and had breal fast and in the morn ing we went over to try to catch tyler in his cabin on jack simpkins claim he was gone so we laid there sundown he never returned and we started up to a spring and while we were drinking we heard some one coming I 1 said all right I 1 am glad of it I 1 got my winchester and stand ing by the s de of the trail never moved I 1 saw it was tyler coming he had a big gun buckled on him I 1 stepped out on the trail and told hia to throw up his hands we then d s armed him took him to simpkins cabin and stopped there until morning v hen we took him three miles out IE ir the timber and I 1 killed him |