"I WAS GLAD I HAD GIVEN MY WIFE THE STATEMENT TO TAKE AWAY WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS PERMITTED TO LEAVE THE PENITENTIARY, FOR WHEN I WAS TAKEN TO A MURDERER'S CELL, I WAS AFRAID SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN TO ME."
Previous to discussing the statements of Steve Adams, which certainly have an important bearing upon the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone case, we should state that the court held that he was unlawfully restrained of Jiis liberty and ordered his immediate release. However, the State was anxious to hide Adams from the attorneys for the defense, so they immediately re-arrested him on the charge of having murdered Detective Lyte Gregory in Denver on May
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5th, 1904. Subsequently this charge was dropped, and he was secretly removed by the prosecution to Wallace, Idaho, on the charge of having killed one Fred Tyler, in August, 1905. At his trial on this charge, which occurred in Wallace the latter part of February, 1907, he repeated the previously-quoted charges against Manager McParland, Gk)vemor Grooding, and the officials of the penitentiary, and very clearly proved his innocence of the murder of Fred Tyler. Strangely enough, however, his jury disagreed, and he will probably be tried again.
We now have all the data in this case before us ready for inspection and analysis.
Ex-Governor Steunenberg of Idaho was assassinated on December 30th, 1905.
Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were arrested for complicity in this outrage on February 17th, 1906, six weeks after the murder.