 One of the two arresting detectives admitted to being employed by the CCMOA for secret work, and a third detective confessed to helping plot the derailing.One of the detectives had also been seen with another man working on the railroad tracks.p.211p.70 

McKinney testified he would be willing to kill two hundred or more people for five hundred dollars.p.107 In his autobiography, Bill Haywood, the secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, stated that the president of the Victor Miners' Union and many other union men were on the train.Haywood charged that McKinney had also worked with a third detective named (Charles) Beckman, from the Thiel Detective Service Company.