Idaho State Penitentiary

Hellraisers Journal: Jacob Waldeck Reports from Boise: “Treated Prisoners Like Jail Demons"

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 12:56pm

There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Friday May 25, 1906
Report from Boise: Second of Five Part Series by Jacob Waldeck

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Correspondent Jacob Waldeck, nationally recognized as a star among newspaper reporters, recently spent a month in Idaho researching the facts surrounding the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone affair. His findings are offered here as a five-part series which began yesterday and continues today with Mr. Waldeck's reporting on the conditions under which the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners have been held in Idaho.

Hellraisers Journal: Haywood, Moyer, & Pettibone Held on Murderers' Row at Idaho Penitentiary

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 12:54pm
Through the window that faced the rear wall I could see
what I afterward learned was the death-house,
where the condemned were hanged.
-Big Bill Haywood

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Saturday February 24, 1906
Boise, Idaho - More Arrest Made in Steunenberg Case, Men Held in Idaho State Pen

From the Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times of February 21, 1906:

MORE ARRESTS IN BOISE CASE
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OREGON GOVERNOR GRANTS REQUISITION PAPERS FOR
TWO MORE ALLEGED ACCOMPLICTS
IN STEUNENBERG CASE.
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SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 20.-Gov. Chamberlain has granted requisition papers for the arrest and return to Idaho of J. L. Simpkins and Steve Adams, wanted as accomplices in the murder of Former Gov. Frank Steunenberg of Idaho. Simpkins is believed to be in this state. Adams is under arrest at Baker City.

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BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 20.-It has been arranged that Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone and Steve Adams, held here on a charge of murdering Former Gov. Frank Steunenberg, shall be taken to Caldwell tomorrow morning and given a preliminary hearing. A special grand jury is to be called to be in readiness to meet any emergency, such as habeas corpus proceedings, etc.

Steve Adams was arrested at Haines, Oregon, yesterday. He was in Caldwell just before the murder and was seen with Orchard walking along the railway track in the vicinity of the Steunenberg home. Vincent St. John, who was arrested at Wallace, it is thought will arrive in Caldwell tomorrow morning, making five to be given a preliminary hearing. Adjutant General Bulackley [Bulkeley] Wells of Colorado has remained over to testify at the preliminary hearing....