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Show ANOTHER CONFESSION IN H THE STEUNENBERG CASE. H Steve Adams, One of the Alleged Con- H splrators, Said to Have Made a Clean Breast of It. tt Boise, Idaho. Tho announcement is mado thnt Stovo Adnms, nrrcsted nt RH Hnlnc, Ore., on February 20, In con- IH ncctlon with tho Stcuncnbcrg nssnssl- HJ nation, has made n full and sweeping HJ confession. jH "This second confession is far more H Important than thnt made by Harry ID Orchard.' This statement was mudo by HJ James McPnrland, the famous dotcc- tivo, In tliu presence of Governor ' H Gooding nnd ,T. H. Hawlcy, who Is In H charge of tho prosecution. IH Mr. McParland added that Adams' H confession fully and exactly corrobor- H atcd that mndo by Orchard at every H point touched upon by both. H "I ireover," Mr. McParland con- H tinned, ".Adnms knows fnr mora of H tho workings of the Inner circlo than H Orchard did, and was able to glvo a H mass of dotnllcd information thnt Or- chard's confession did not cover. H "Tho confession of Adams,' ho said, H "corroborated thnt given by Orchard H In every substantial point connected 9 with tho assassination of ox-Uovernor fl Stcuncnbcrg. Adams, however, was not at Caldwell at tha tlmo of the assassination nor was Orchard at tho tlmo of tho unsuccessful effort In No- I vembcr. The man' who assisted Orch- I ard on that latter occasion, as set forthSln Orchard's confesslom, was H Jack Slmpklns." . I Still nnother statement made by I tho dotcctlve .was that tho Adsitui con- fession gavo , tho details of a largo I numbor of murders that wero not jre- I ferrcdto In nny manner by Orohard. I It was furthor stated that tho oonfes-slon oonfes-slon had been reduced to writing, signed nnd acknowledged. It was a volumnJoim documont, covering greater Hold and In mora detail than that mado by Orchard, Tho further statement was mado thnt Adams had mado this confession without bolng promised antyhing. When tnlkod with nbout tho mutter ho simply mndo a clean' brenst of nil ho knew of this enso nnd ot the secret workings work-ings of Uho Wdstorn Fodaratlon. |