Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — PETTIBONE NOT GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

PETTIBONE NOT GUILTY.

Western Federation Mine Official Tried for Murder Is Acquitted. George A. Pettibone, an official of the Western Federation of Miners, was acquitted at Boise, Idaho, of the murder of Governor Steunenberg. Pettibone’s acquittal follows that of Secretary Haywood, who was tried on the same charge. Pettibone, as Haywood, wns tried on confessions of Harry Orchard and Stere Adams implicating them in numerous bloody plots in which scores of human beings were killed. Members of the Western Federation all over the country have expressed themselves pleased at the verdict. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, stated that th* verdict was highly satisfactory to him.