 When the Victor "Daily Record," a strong voice of the WFM, erroneously charged that one of the soldiers was an ex-convict, its staff was imprisoned before a retraction could be published.p.96

While Victor "Daily Record" editor George Kyner and four printers were in the bullpen, Emma Langdon, a Linotype typesetting machine operator married to one of the imprisoned printers, sneaked into the "Daily Record" office and barricaded herself inside.She printed the next edition of the paper, and then delivered it to the prisoners in the bullpen,p.209 surprising the guards in the process.On September 10 the National Guard began "a series of almost daily arrests" of union officers and men known to be strongly in sympathy with the unions.p.80 When District Judge W. P. Seeds of Teller County held a hearing on writs of habeas corpus for four union men held in the stockade, Sherman Bell responded