Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — CENTRAL TRAIN WRECKERS. [ARTICLE]

CENTRAL TRAIN WRECKERS.

Confessions That Implicate Master Workman bee and Other Knights of Labor. The full confessions of three of the five men who are implicated in the recent attempts at wholesale murder by trainwrecking oh the New York Central, were obtained on the 21st for publication. The crimes, which the narratives of these three wretches lay bare, are of ,the sort which impel a resort to the summary processes of Judge Lynch’s court, even in the most law abiding communities. With-no Motive save hate because of the failure of the strike; tbe series of erhnes- were eenwaitted with the full intention to sacrifice many Innocent livesTn" wa n ton n <ss' The most startline- revelation will be found in the evidence, direct and positive, implicating the official leader of the Knights of Labor in the New York Central strike as. at least, an accomplice after the fact. Certain of the conspirators say that Edward J. Lee personally furnished them with money with which to leave the coun>. try immediately after they wrecked the Montreal express, on September 4. They detail Lee’s conversation with them when the money was paid, and they describe the Master Workman’s long conference with the two men, who, they say, were leaders itt the execution of the plot. Robert Pinkerton, the detective, who with his men bad conducted the investigation, de elates his convictions _that Lee, had guilty knowledge of the crimes before the time specified in the confessions detailed below, but he is not yet able to prove his . suspicions. Enough, however, is shown to place the organization which ordered the strike in a position of detestation and horror which no explaining can do away with, and which will cause a revulsion of feeling in the public mind which nothing can counteract.