rather saddle the cost of an expensive trial on the State of Idaho?
As we know. Operative Riddell, No. 36, who worked for the Agency at Telluride, was the only operative who ever attempted, on behalf of the Pinkerton Institution and the Mine Owners' Association, to gather incriminating evidence against the Western Federation of Miners. His failure to discover anything was most signal. Consequently, Mr. McParland's statement alx)Ut having information and evidence sufficient tc hang Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Pettiboue for 3
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dozen atrocious murders in Colorado is merely so much bluster, or, which is truer, it is a downright falsehood.
So far as the case of Burton is concerned, the reader can see for himself that the Pinkerton Agency, without any excuse whatever, did their best to prevent him from appealing for a hearing in a court of law, and they would have succeeded in their scheme, but for the alertness of Attorney Ralph Talbot, of Denver.