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Show HIS' STORY OF I TYLER MURDER I Statement Made by Accused Mao Soon After His Arrest is Intro-duced Intro-duced Despite Objections. Confewlon Was Made to a Ptnkertor Detective, and Adams' Lawyers Contended hat It Had Not fl Been Made Voluntarily. Rathdrum, Idaho. Just beforo th closing of Tuesday's session ot court, the confession of Stove Adams, a member of the Western Federation ot Miners on trial for his llfo for tho nl-leged nl-leged murder of Fred Tyler In tho Mnrblo Ctvok district of Shoshone-county, Shoshone-county, Idaho, In August, 1004, wni, rend to tho Jury. It was tho confession made to James McPnrlnnd, n Pinker-ton Pinker-ton detective, booh after Adams wns arrested In February, 1000, and put In tho Bolso ponltentlary. In tho trait of blood delineated In the confession of tho defendant in the present nctlon, ho weaves nn almost romantic talo. It required a little short ot nn hour In i HBf the rending. It wns admitted by Judgo Wood during McPnrlnnd's dl-rcct dl-rcct examination. Dnrrow objected on tho ground that It htul not been mndo voluntarily nnd Unit Induce-monts Induce-monts nnd promises ot leniency had prompted It. Tho confession of Stove Adams was mndo In tho ofllco nf tho warden of tho Idaho penitentiary. Fobrunry 27, 100G, In tho presence of James Mcl'nr-lnnd, Mcl'nr-lnnd, n Plnkcrton dotectlvo of Molllo McGulro fame, nnd W., B. Hopkins. Tho defonso claims thnt Adams was Induced to sign the document under - 'f threats. hi the confesston Adams declared that ho was Intimately ncqunlntcd with Moycr, Haywood and Pcttlbono, and . deals with preliminary talk about the proposed assassination of Governor Stounenborg. This talk had occurred shortly after tho dynamiting of tho do-pot do-pot at- Independence In 1904. It wat about a month aftor that Adanu started for Idaho. Tho talk had taker placo "in Pottlbouo's bnck room, nnd besides Adams thoro hnd been present Haywood and Pcttlbono. Quoting froir tho confession: "They Just tell mo tc go up and seo SImpklns, as ho wanted to soo mo, and ho would probably tol! mo nbout the Steunenberg mattor, at thoy wanted to get Stounenborg." ' Adams' confession of Uio murder ol Tylor wns ns follows; ikK0 Iv-?2i. m on n'eht, Newt Glover, Aivnh Mason and myself, tc SImpklns' cabin, mado somo coffee fl and hnd "breakfast, and In tho morn-lng morn-lng wo went over to try to catch Tyler In his cabin on Jack SImpklns' claim. Ho was gono, no wo laid thero untL fl sundown. Ho never returned, ,nnd wo started up to a spring, and while wo wero drinking, wo heard somo one fl coming. I said: 'All right. I am glad ot it.' I got my Winchester, and, stand- fl lng by tho sldo of tho trail, nevci fl moved. I saw It was Tyler coming; ho hnd n big gun buckled on him. 1 stepped out on tho trail nnd told hire fl to throw up his hands. Wo then dls fl armed him, took him to SImpklns cabin and stopped thoro until morning fl when wo took him three miles out It MM tho timber and I killed him." |