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Chapter XXV.

and Pettibone. They called on Governor McDonald on Saturday; and the successor of Governor Peabody, WHO AT A SUBSEQUENT DATE REFUSED TO EXTRADITE A NEGRO WHO WAS WANTED IN MISSISSIPPI FOR ASSAULT AND MURDER UNLESS MISSISSIPPI WOULD GUARANTEE THAT NEGRO A FAIR TRIAL, HAD NO HESITANCY IN SIGNING AWAY THE LIBERTY OF THREE PROMINENT LABOR LEADERS, AND TURNING THEM OVER BOUND HAND AND FOOT, AND WITH A GAG IN THEIR MOUTHS, TO THEIR MOST INVETERATE ENEMIES, THE PINKERTON DETECTIVE AGENCY.

The Idaho detectives, acting under the orders of Manager McParland, waited until late Saturday night, and at about the hour of midnight the men were seized and placed in the county jail. They were denied permission to notify friends or counsel of their arrest; indeed, it is but a sorry time to communicate with people after midnight. But, while the faithful friends of these men slept,

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