Mr. Talbot then hastily made application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, and soon he had the necessary papers signed by Judge Johnson of the West Side Court. He expected to serve these papers on the detectives when they arrived at the Denver Union Depot, and thus prevent them from railroading Mr. Burton out of the State.
But, somehow or another, the Denver Agency got wind of Mr, Talbot's doings, and wired Asst. Supt. Cary, care of the conductor of the train, that he should not come into Denver, but that he and his party must get off at Arvada, hire a rig, drive to Brighton, and at that point place the prisoner and the two Boston officers on the East-bound Union Pacific train. By this move the Agency expected to outwit Attorney Talbot.
Asst. Supt. Cary did as instructed, and Asst. District Attorney Smith, of Idaho Springs, promptly notified Mr. Talbot what the detectives were up to. Mr. Talbot thereupon hired a light rig, placed the legal papers in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Mahoney, and told him to drive at top speed and overtake the detectives and their prisoner. Mr. Cary had scarcely driven a mile before he was overtaken by Deputy Sheriff Mahoney and served with the order of the court.
This event occurred on Tuesday afternoon, August 4th, 1903.
We are not interested in the result of Mr. Burton's fight against extradition, but we are interested in the unlawful maneuvers of the Pinkerton Agency,
The Pinkerton Labor Spy. 209
They claimed, in the case of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, that an emergency existed which justified them in thus secretly arresting and