Republican governor of Colorado James Peabody had sent the national guard into Cripple Creek to suppress the strike. The "Daily Record" erroneously charged that one of the soldiers was an ex-convict. Its staff was imprisoned by the national guard in a bullpen before a retraction could be published. While Victor "Daily Record" editor George Kyner and four printers were in the bullpen, Emma Langdon, a linotype 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.