Show POLICE POUCE I STEVE ADAMS ADAM'S TALE Find Three Men V Who ho Relate Story of Discovery of Fire Bottles GOODS LOCATED IN CACHE Contents of or Burn Hand of Workman Blue Ill ui-Ill tie Flames Seen I Issuing From Old Mill lIbl II Republican Special in Ida IIa March 2 29 Police Police Chief Chic Smith las Ins last t night found three men much who tol told of or finding about a year ear ago the time can cau fn and amid bottles which which Steve Steve Adams said I he lie hid hil here rh The men amen ha had been hauling the timbers which ha had been u used e to support the time boilers of oC the old mill mi When hen a helper dug un under r one omie of the time timbers to get tt a achain chain hitch on omi It he struck ck a can containing con coin COI- COI taming several bottles Th The stopper came Caine out of oC one of oC the bottles and amid the contents poured over o the time mans man's hand burning It sc erel severely The Injured ed man covered his hand han with wih earth to stop tho the burning while another man placed the time can cn on a shovel an and amid threw It on an ash heap where It 1 was covered The three men are James Byrd George McConkey McConkey anti and Frank Frnnk Shafer After ACor digging I ging for tor nearly eighteen hours hours four of or the live five bottles hidden by y Steve Adams Aars In high h explosives or ci dope ope have ha been found In th this the old mill 11 near here In addition to un unearthing the tour lout bottles bottes the fifth one Was ivas wa accounted accounted ac ac- ac- ac counted for tor J J. J A McConkey and amid J. J C C. Ryan s say they saw blue flames Hames coming from rom the lie ash eap near the ol old mill 11 last April They covered the lie lire fire lre with wih earth an and found the tire Ore bottles bottes In imi a tin Un bucket after the flames fames had hind been put out They scattered the contents of or one of oC th the bottles bottes on 01 the thc brush blush In the nel neighborhood neigh neigh- h- h I and the brush took fire lire Im imm Im- Im m mediately ei lately Go no to Cache George McConkey and Thomas McConkey Mc- Mc Ic- Ic Conkey Conlee went with wih Chief Smith an and Detective Thiele this morning morning to the spot where the they found fount the lie thE bottes bottles Tho They conducted the officers to the exact ex ex- act net spot where A Adams ams said sid he had hud cached the stuff In 1903 Both Bolh men Identified the bucket found yesterday c as the one they had found In the time ash h heap aV J last nut year cam ui Byrd works In Iii n the tIme T r j A M A l. l rh ft t. t A A H hl rd du le HY P. P i iI J l W VA P t J-t e t. t r Ibe S J 1 ht tl- tl I zal ll litt a t 5 be been in in- te e separately 1 lime Fhe ij ls ay say th the the a ar now satis satisfied Jt fe fled fied that Adams' Adams story tory was as as true In Iii Def Defective re- re returned evor every orr c particular cU 6 turned to 10 DOlc this evening evening- |