of Orchard, of itself, would not be sufficient to hang Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. It therefore became imperative that another person be found, who could be persuaded, by fair means or by foul, to corroborate and confirm the story of Orchard. Such a person Mr. McParland believed to have found in Stephen Adams.
Adams had been a miner for many years, and at one time had been a member of the Western Federation. For several months prior to the assassination of Mr. Steunenberg he had been living with an uncle, on the latter's ranch in Oregon. It was on this ranch that he was located and arrested by detectives from Idaho on Feb. 20th, 1906, on the charge of having participated
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in the murder of Idaho's ex-governor; and without troubling about extradition papers the detectives brought him to Boise City, where he was at once taken to the penitentiary and thrown into a soHd steel cell with Harry Orchard.