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Show DYNAMITER IN PRISON 1 INDEPENDENCE DYNAMITE PLOT 1 HA8 BEEN REVEALED. I One of he Gang of Assassins of Non. fl Union Men In Colorado Mining Town Confeses to Awful Crime. B. F. Slagel, nllas Robert Romano a prlsonor In tho Shawnco emmy H KnnsaH, Jail, has mado a confpss,0ij I boforo tho county attorney, giving do. talis of tho preparations to blow up B tho Florcnco & Cripplo Creek railroad H dopot nt Independence, Co,o., and also tho plot for tho carrying out of i,e I plan to blow up tho Vindicator nilno I Tho depot wns destroyed by nltrociy- I corlno on Juno 7, 1901, and thlrt-..n H pcoplo woro blown to pieces, and iiio B Vindicator mlno wns blown up o. I vombor 21, 1903. H Romalne, In his confession, said I H loft Canon City nnd went to Criptio I Creek on tho 5th of October, 1903 Uad I hung nround thero until niong tho first I pnrt of November and went to woik I on tho Golden Cycle mlno under Su- I porlntcndcnt Holman. H "Tho next night nftor I went to Work I got In with a gang of fellows who I nskod mo to Join tho union nnd act as I n spy around tho Golden Cycle and I Vindicator mines. They wero after Superintendent Holman. I could not B find nny wny to get In thoro ns tboy Bj wanted and told them so. But a few 9k ovonlngs after tho VIndlcntor mlno PI was blown up by n dynamlto machlno J furnlshod by mo. tyf "About tho mlddlo of Mny I returned H to Canon City nnd got n can of glycer- I luo and COO feet or wiro I had hid in H thero. On tho night of Juno 0 it was I planned to blow up tho Cripplo Creek I depot, so tho noxt evening I got tho fl glycerine and wiro nnd with an Iron B prong about, ten irfches long and about B four inches wldo nt tho top with two B holes In thero fnr enough npart to B catch a pistol hack of tho hammer, so B that you, could tlo a string to tho ham- B mor and not Intcrfero with It. H ( "I and nnother mnn crept under tho BJ platform and fixed things, running the H wiro to the Uolmonlco shaft, 500 feet BJ nway. Wo foo'.ed around until tho 10 H o'clock train enmo in. I saw boiuo of Bj my friends thcro nnd realized that thoy Wi would bo killed. I did my best to run H down nnd got this thing so it would H not go off, nnd when they saw what I BJ was trying to do ono man grabbed mo H and struck mo with his pistol on tho BJ oyo and again behind tho car, whero I BJ havo scars now from thoso blows, and H I was knocked unconscious for a short IBJ tlmo. When I camo to ngaln every- Hj body In Cripplo Crook wns around H thoro nnd thero wns great excitement IHJ Then I got out of tho town as quickly BJ as possible. That was tho 8th, nnd H on tho night of tho 9th wo all walked Bj down to Colorado Springs, nnd got jB thero about 5 or G o'clock tho noxt H morning. Tnrco of. tho men bought tickets for Pueblo and I think thoy M wont west On the night of tho 9th at BJ 6:30 I took the Santa Fo train for tho BJ cast" BJ |