 "p.119 Detective Scott, in fact, had taken direct orders from General Sherman Bell,p.229 and Major Ellison testified that Sherman Bell had been implicated in an earlier plot to "hold up or shoot" working miners just four months prior to the Independence Depot explosion.Bloodhounds were brought in to track the perpetrators of the Independence depot explosion.As US Labor commissioner Carroll Wright noted, "Accounts differ as to the trails pursued by these hounds.