The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-25


 luride to visit the union there he took this man who had won his confidence along to protect him from the thugs of the mine owners. No sooner however, had Mover arrived in Telluride than he was arrested and thrown into the bull pen where he remained for many months, up- able to take any part in any further con- spracy"
 Taking up the blowing up of the 1nde- pendence depot Mir. Darrow said he did not know whether Orchard blew 1t up or. not, but he was inclined to believe that he did not The depot was a worthless buildng-a side track stop for working trains. It was not worth a white chip, declared the attorney. T won't say the mine owners or detectives wanted to kill anybody at this depot. If the powder could be touched off just before the train arrived. and before the men got there, 1t would not kill anybody. but it would be another attempt in the line of the Western Federation of Miners to get ri1 of a lot of scabs.'
 Independent Depot Explosion.
 Describing the conditions which followed the explosion of the Independence depot Darrow said the Mine Owners association made a speech from a wagon denounc- ing the Western Federation of Miners, saying that now was the time to get rid of the organization. Just then a shot was fired.
 We will show that K. c. Sterling, chief detective of the Mine Owners asso- citation, fired the shot" said the attor- ney and that it was the signal for a general skirmish. Many. shots were fired, and when the smoke cleared away two men lay dead"
 MT. Darrow then went into detailed story of the alleged depredahons of the militia on union property in the Cripple Creek district
 A recess until O clock was then taken Mir DaIrow having about half completed his speech
 Mir Dagrow rsuming his speech after the recess told how Mover first became arrested at Ouray on charge of desc crating the American flag. and then was held in custody as a matter of military necessity" Mover also was charged with the murder of two men killed in the riot at Independence-the riot which had oc- cured while he wa in the bull pen, pre- sided over by Bulkeley Wells.
 Deportation of Union Men.
 MT. Darrow told of the deportation of union miners from Cripple Creek, saying that most of the men were driven out and were scattered to the four quarters of the west and found it necessary to change their names. MT. Darrow then came back to Orchard.
 Along with Johnny Neville, and the Neville boy Orchard came to Denver after the Independence depot affair. Orchard hGd considerable money from the burn ing of NeVille's saloon. He laid around Denver gambling and got acquainted vita Pettibone. He told Pettibone he was fugitive from Cripple Creek and wanted to leave the state"
 Orchards Money With Pettibone.
 Here MT. Darrow explained the defense theory of the transactions between Petit bone and Orchard
 Orchard asked Pettibone to keep a. sum of money for him, saying he would write from time to time. Pettibone had big safe where he kept things for many persons. Orchard gave him the money to put away He also gave him Masonic charm and his membership card in the Western Federation of Miners and other trinkets. Orchard went to Cheyenne with the two Nevilles. At Cheyenne he loafed about Moran's sa- loon. He never asked Moran to go to Pettibone and give him some money, and Moran never went to Pettibone. Orchard said when he left Denver, that he would write to Pettibone. He did so and got replies. They used names as did all the fugtives from the mining coun- try. Orchard eventually turned up in San Francisco, but he never blew up any house there.
 Pipe Dream. That story about the Bradley house was al other of Orchards pipe dreams thrown in to make him the greatest crim- inal of the age. We have deposition from Mir. Bradley in which he says the house was wrecked by gas that he smelle1 the gas and that when he lighted his cigar ths explosion occurred. Or chard never blew up the Bradley house, am I tell you this without having any special intention in defending Harry Or chard.
 Tn San Francisco. when Orchard was there, D. C. Copley was delivering H. lustrated lectures of the Cripple Creek stor.- Orchard went to lecture one night and asked Copley if he had heard of the explosion at bradley's house. Cooley said he had. and Orchard then said that Bradley had got what he deserved; that le had been in the Occur D'Alenes and was partly responsible for the militia be- ing called into the district Threats Against Steunenbere.
 Orchard said there was another of