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Show I) YN A M I F 1 0 IM N P II I SON I INDEPENDENCE DYNAMITE PLOT j HAS BEEN REVEALED. On of he Cnng of Ajalna of Non-Union Non-Union Men In Colorado Mining Town Contcnta to Awful Crime. J II. F. Hlagel. nliaa Robert P.omalne, a prisoner In the Shnwnee county, Knnms. Jail, has made a confession before llio c. unty attorney, giving details de-tails of Iho preparation to blow up Iho Floreiuo ft Cripple Creek railroad depot at Independence Co o., nnd nlno tho plot for tho carrying out of tho plnn to blow up tho Vindicator mine. Tho depot aa destroyed by nitroglycerine nitrogly-cerine on Juno 7. loot, and tlilrtu n people were blown to pieces, and tho Vindicator initio was blown up November No-vember II, int'3. Homnliie. m his confession, said: "I left Canon City and went lo Cripple Creek on the Oth of October. P.e'3, and hung nroitnd thero until nleng the first part of November nnd went to work on tho Golden Cycle mlno under Superintendent Su-perintendent lloltuan. "Tho next night nfter I went to work I got In with a gang of fellows who aalied mo to Join Iho union nnd act as a spy around Iho Go. den Cyclo and Vindicator mines. They wero after Superintendent lloltuan. 1 could not I And any wny lo get In thorn aa they wanted and told litem so. Hut a few evening after the Vindicator mine was blown up by a dynumllo machine furnished by me. "About the mlilillo of Mny I returned to Canon City nnd got a can of glyc erine er-ine and I'.'i'i feet of wlro I I'.ad bid tn there. On thn night of June 6 It was planned lo blow up tho Crlpplo Creek depot, so tho next evening I got the glycerine and wire and with an Iron prong nbout len Inches long and about four Inches wblo at tho top with two boles In thero far enough apart to catch a pistol back of the hammer, so that you could tic a string to tho hammer ham-mer nnd not Interfere with It. "I nnd another man crept under the platform and fixed things, running th wire to tho iielmonleo shaft, r.i.u feet awny. Wn foo ed around until the ID o'clock train rnnip In. I auw soma of my friends there nnd renllzed that they would be killed. 1 did my best to run down and get Ibis thing so It would not go off, and when they anw what I was trying to do cine man grabbed mo and alruck mo with bla pistol on the eye and again behind the oar, where I have eeurs nov from those blows, nnd I wa knocker! unconscious for a short time. When I camo to agnln overy-bo'ir overy-bo'ir In Cripple Creole was around there and thero was great excitement. Then I got out of the town aa quickly aa possible. That waa the 8th. and on tho night of the 9th we all walked down to Colorado Springs, and got there nbout 6 or 6 o'clock tho next morning. Tnreo of the men bought tickets for Pueblo and I think they went wost. On tho night of the 9th at 6:30 I took the Bant Fo train for tb east" I |