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Show REMAINS OF MURDERED MAN LOCATED By STEVE ADAMS Crime Committed Six Years Ago In Struggle Between Miners and Mine Owners, Laid to Strikers. Tellurlde, Colo. What Is snld to bo the skeleton of W. J. llnrney, tho tlmbermnn employed on tho Smuggler-Union Smuggler-Union mlno, who mysteriously disappeared disap-peared In tho month of Juno, 1901, was exhumed Thursday nfternoon near tho Alta mill, near Cold King bnsln, twelvo miles from town, by Oen. Hulkclcy Wells, mann ,er of tho Smuggler-Union Mining company, nnd others. According to Wells' account, the remains re-mains wero found In an Improvised gravo nnd Its location wns pointed out by Steve Adams, now In Jail In Idaho awaiting a second trial on tho charge of murder, when he wns here in June, 1000, In the custody of Wells. A part of the body or skeleton Included In-cluded the teeth, and that portion by which Identlllcntltm could could bo most readily established was brought to town by Oen. Wells. Harney Incurred the 111 will of tho union here by working at the Smuggler Smug-gler mlno after the strike In April, 1901. It was this strike that caused I tho riots of July !! of that year. Adams is said to havo told Wells that Har ney's body wan stripped of bis doming, dom-ing, which wns burled In another place. While here In l'.iOi: Adnms Is said to have pointed nut to Wells the tree, lu tho darkness of which he claimed to hnvo stood when be fired the charge of buckshot Into the back of Manager Collins. Ho Is also said to have told Wells when- he threw the rurtrldge ufter removing It from tho gnu. Dr. Lord, a loonl dentist, after examining ex-amining tho teeth of the skeloton, brought In by Ceneral Wells, Identified them ns belonging to Harney. He had performed certain dental work for Harney and was ubla to Identify tho skeleton from this. It is reported that warrants will be Issued for two men who wero prominent promi-nent In the local union of the Western Federation of Miners when llnrney disappeared. dis-appeared. Steve Adnms, who confessed con-fessed to complicity In the murder of Harney, In his general confession made In Idaho, but afterwards repudiated, repu-diated, told (lenernl Wells, according to tho lattcrs' statement, of the manner man-ner lu which Hnrney wns made way with and it is upon this recital of details that tho warrants nre to bo sworn to. |
