The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-12
HARRY ORCHARD CLINICS '
 TO HIS GHASTLY STORY

Richardson continued to question the witness about the attempts he made on the life of Fred Bradley in San Fran cisco. Orchard said that he roomed near the Bradley home, being able to overlook 1t from his bedroom window. The confessing witness declared that he had bought some dynamite for a bomb before the attempt to poison Bradley with strychnine in the milk had failed.
 Orchard thought it was the Judson Powder Company that he bought the explosive from. Asked about the appearance of the clerk who waited on him. Orchard said he was a youngish-looking man. In buying the powder. Orchard was required to give his name He could not remember what name 1t was-a fictitious one. As an excuse for buy ing the ten pounds of dynamite, Or chard told the clerk he wanted to blow out some stumps on his ranch. Don't you know there are no stumps within 150 miles of San Francisco?" demanded Richardson.
 T know that there are-I have seen them on the way to Caiiente Springs"
 Orchard gave as nearly as he could the description of the various places where he had lived while in San Fran cisco, before moving to the Bradley neighborhood. He could not remember the names of streets or the numbers of houses.
 Orchard told of a pleasure trip he had taken to Caliente Springs while waiting for Bradley to return from Alaska
 Played cards while there"
 Yes"
 You were a handy man with the cards, weren't your
 T don't know what you mean by that. F@
 You were a card sharp?"
 NO. sir; I was not" Orchard in San Francisco.
 Orchard was living near the Presidio at the time he bought the dynamite for the Bradley bomb. He did not remember whether he took a box of giant caps to San Francisco or bought them at the Judson Company. Orchard kept the dynamite in his room and took 1t with him when he moved to 1926 Washington Street-within half a block of the Bradley home.
 Orchard said it was after he had seen the milk delivered to the Bradley back door several mornings in suc- cession that he conceived the idea of poisoning his victims rather than to employ a bomb.
 With the failure of the milk plot, he went ahead with the manufacture of
 
 inch lead pipe, 14 inches long. Orchard said he bought the pipe in a plumbing shop on Taylor Street, somewhere in the 200 block.
 Richardson wanted to know if De- tective Mcfarland had attempted to trace the San Francisco location for the witness.
 All l know is, that he investigated the powder or dynamite purchase. He brought me a list of the sales of Jud- son Powder Company and asked me if I could pick out the name I had given. I picked out A. Debs as the one thought I remembered"
 Don't you, know there was but one ten-pound sale of dynamite that whole year" s
 MT. Mcfarland showed me several"
 But all the others were in the name of a well known customer of the firm"
 "There were several names
 Orchard said he had heard from Mo Parland about the suit of the owner of the apartments against the San Fran cisco Gas Company after the explosion of the Bradley bomb.
 On Orchards confession Detective Mcfarland and Governor Gooding made afidavits for use by the gas company in moving for a new trial.
 Did you know the motion for a new trial based on these affidavits could nave been OVerTuIcu Dy tuS
 NO. sir; heard the judgment was stayed"
 But that was on approval"
 T don't know about that"
 Placed Bomb At Front Door.
 Orchard said the morning he placed the bomb at the front door of the Bradley house, people were passing on their way to work. The lead bomb was inside a wooden box Orchard axAru aa nd ont nT earshot before the explosion occurred.
 From the examination of the place after the explosion, don't you know that the walls were blown out instead of in?" asked Mir. Richardson.
 They were all shattered"
 Orchard said that as Bradley opened the door he would be sideways to the bomb and the explosion would be more likely to blow him out than in.
 The witness, with the same calmneSS that has marked his demeanor through out, drew a diagram for the attorneys showing just where he had placed the bomb and where Bradley would be with the opening of the door. At the sug- gestion of Judge Wood, Orchard left the witness chair and walked over to the jury box. where he explained the diagram to the twelve men. He did not hesitate in supplying any detail de- manded by Richardson.
 Orchard said that was from the newspapers that he learned Bradley had been blown into the street.
 Then you don't know positively that he was blown into the street?" asked Richardson.
 ~ did not see him go," said Orchard.
 In reply to questions Orchard said he went to the corner grocery for few days after the explosion to learn Bradleys condition.
 Why didn't you read the papers for that too? Richardson wanted to know.
 Because didn't believe all I saw In the papers"
 generally attributed to gas. but he thought 1t was a bomb.
 T told him I didn't think so al all" declared Orchard.
 Disguised As a Soldier.
 Orchard next told of returning to Denver after receiving more money From Pettibone. He disguised himself as a soldier and wore glasses
 Don't you know that soldiers never wear glasses?" asked Richardson.
 T didn't know it, mo-" he said. ed in: You forget MT. Roosevelt al San Juan, MT. Richardson"
 He was not a soldier" shouted Richardson.
 And he wasn't at San Juan" declar- ed Mir. Nugent of the defendants coun- seI.
 Arriving in Denver. Orchard went first to see Pettibone. He then met Steve Adams and went with Billy Ack- erman to live at Adams house. Mrs. Adams cooking the meals.
 Didn't Steve have to move because he couldn't pay the rent?" asked Rich