The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-20
Colorado Justice Narrates the
Story of the Bomb In
tended for Him.
HEARS OF 1T FROM MPARTLAND
Goes Home and Finds a Screw-Eye
as Orchard Had Described.
General Wells Digs Up the Internal
Lachine, Which Is Put Away
Sealed Up - Judge Lets in
Haywood's Editorials.

Boise, Ida. June 90. - The state |
made dramatic production and proof |
of the Goddard bomb, and beside of /
fering further contributions of the teS- |
timony of Harry Orchard against vii /
liam u. Haywood secured ruling I'M
der which a number of the denuncla-
tory articles published In The Miners
Magazine, Official organ of the West
ern Federation Of Miners, will be adj
mitted in evidence. To Justice Luther
NJ. Goddard himself fell the task Of
telling the story of the finding and
preservation for use as evidence of the
bomb with which Orchard tried to kill
him. His appearance on the stand add
ed another to the many dramatic
scenes and situations that have char
acterized the trial, and his testimony
was clear and infinitely circumstantiaL
Judge Goes Bomb Hunting.
The veteran Colorado jurist testified
that the first information that he re-
cclved about the bomb came to MIN
from Orchards confession, which was
shown to him at Denver on Feb. ID,
1906, by Detective MCFARLAND. He at
once returned to his home, and in his
gate discovered the screw-eye which
/ On chard said he placed there. 1t was
rusted and corroded by ten months
exposure. The witness said he exam
! ined the ground outside the gate where
Orchard said he placed the bomb, and
found n slight depression with the soil
packed very hard around it.
Buckley Wells Digs 1t Up.
The bomb was dug up the next day
by General Buckley Wells, who used
a pocket knife to cut the soil away
and raise the pine box containing the
bomb. There was a small phial on top
of the box, and attached to the rub
Der cork of the phiaI was a piece OF
rusted wire. The bomb and its attach
ment were at once taken to the office
of the Pinkerton detective agency and
carefully sealed in wrappers and en-
velopes that were signed by half &
dozen witnesses, including Justice
Goddard. and after that they were
placed in a vault to the door of which
seals, including that Of a notary pub
lie were attached.
Kept in the Vault Until May.
There they rested until the following
May %, when, believing the Haywood
case was to come to trial, they wer
removed in the presence of the sam
witnesses. and all save three of th
forty sticks of giant powder contained
in the bomb were exploded The explc
sions occurred in the presence of tn
witnesses at point in the suburbs O
/. Denver, and of the bomb itself lively
giant caps and two wrappers tor
i from sticks of giant powder wer
4 saved as evidence.
BOrah Produces the Exhibits.
Senator Borah produced the sewers
4 packets as they were originally sealed
and commencing with the phial passe
t them to Justice Goddard, who brok
/. the seals and identified the article
n After the phial came the little screw
r eye, then the dozen giant caps, an
L last the powder wrapper Attorne
Richardson and barrow, for the d
Tense, objected to all the evidence an
= all the exhibits, and moved to stril
V out everything, but the court rule
! against them all along the line.