If Adams' word suited Manager McParland because that word would help send three innocent men to a shameful death, then that same word is doubly and trebly acceptable to a just and intelligent world, when it points a sternly-accusing finger at Manager McParland and his associates, and charges them with crimes even worse than murder.
In fine, if Adams' word was good enough to enable the law to take three lives, it is a thousand times better when it enables the world to tear the mantle of virtue from the shoulders of scoundrels.
Admitting, therefore, the UNDENIABLE TRUTH of Adams' charges against Manager McParland and the prosecution, it follows that a critical inspection of Orchard's confession should bring interesting developments to light.
Orchard apparently was a spy in the employ of Detectives Scott and Sterling during the Cripple Creek strike. Orchard is a bad man. His reputation is not improved by the fact that he helped Manager
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McParland torture Adams into making a false confession.
ACCORDING TO MR. McPARLAND'S OWN ESTIMATE OF THE ABILITY AND SHREWDNESS OF THE LEADERS OF THE FEDERATION, MOYER AND HAYWOOD CERTAINLY OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN THAT ORCHARD WAS A SPY FOR DETECTIVES SCOTT AND STERLING DURING THE COLORADO STRIKES.
THAT THIS KNOWLEDGE WOULD NECESSARILY PRECLUDE THE BAREST POSSIBILITY OF FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN ORCHARD AND THE OFFICIALS OF THE FEDERATION, IS A TRUTH WHICH EVEN McPARLAND CANNOT GET AROUND.