deporting them from the State. We really wonder what this emergency was. DID THEY FEAR THAT A COLORADO COURT WOULD REFUSE TO EXTRADITE THE UNION LEADERS ON THE STRENGTH OF ORCHARD'S CONFESSION AND THEIR DECAYED MOLLY MAGUIRE REPUTATION? WHAT, THEN, IF EXTRADITION WERE REFUSED? CANNOT A GALLOWS BE ERECTED IN THE STATE OF COLORADO, IN WHICH STATE, ACCORDING TO MANAGER McPARLAND'S OWN WORDS, HE COULD HANG THEM HIGHER THAN HAMAN FOR THE COMMISSION OF FULLY A DOZEN ATROCIOUS MURDERS?
And if Manager McParland could convict Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone in their home State for the commission of a dozen atrocious murders, why is it, we ask, that this arch-enemy of the Western Federation of Miners chose, instead, to kidnap these men on merely one charge, and that, not a direct charge of murder, but rather an indirect and hazy charge of conspiracy? Is it possible that Mr. McParland is such a patriotic and public-spirited citizen of the State of Colorado that he would