Garland Globe | 1907-03-09 | Page 2 | Sensational Charges Made

SENSATIONAL CHARGES MADE. Steve Adams Tells Why Orchard Made Confession. "Wallace, Idaho. Stevo Adams, on trial horo for murder, declared that Detective Thlelo told him that ho (Thiolo) was on tho Insldo nnd If Adams would do what was wanted ho would como out nil right. Thlelo reiterated re-iterated this statement n number ot times on tho way from Baker City to Dolso. At Bolso ho was taken straight to tho penitentiary nnd thrown Into, n solid steel cell on tho second tier with Harry Orchard and confined six or seven days. While In tho cell Orchnrd told Adams that ho had mndo a confession, con-fession, Implicating ofllcers ot tho Western Federation nnd AdnmB; thnt ho (Orchnrd) wns to got oft without prosecution nnd that ho was to get n plcco of money, and he Intended to put a pond botween hlmsolf and members mem-bers of tho Western Federation. Orchard Or-chard warned Adams thnt tho best thing ho could do was to help convict con-vict tho offlcers of tho Western Federation Fed-eration and corroborate Orchard's confession nnd savo himself und think of his family, and It Adams failed to do this he would bo taken back to Colorado nnd either mobbed or hanged.