The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-12

from every side by the defense at
every material point, halted for the
noon recess.
Word that Horsley was on the
stand spread through the city, and
a few moments. after the doors of
the Court were opened in the after
noon every available seat for the
public was taken and the deputies
had to force the doors shut and clear
away clamoring crowd that jam
med the stairway and landing.
FOLLOWED GOVERNOR PEABODY.
Horsely spent the noon recess
under guard at Hawley's Office, and
at 1.30 o'clock was driven back to
the Court House to resume his story.
He told of his journey with Meyer
and his return to Denver, where it
was suggested, he said, that he kill
Governor Peabody, Of Colorado. He
said he picked Steve Adams to cid
him, and together they stalked the
Governor between the Capital and his
home, trying for a shot at him with
shotguns. Haywood and Pettibone
were in the plot and furnished the
witness with money from time to
time. The plot failed because Hor-
sley and Adams followed a carriage
containing two women to the Pea
body home and excited suspicion.
Next came a plot to dynamite Pea
body. Horsley said they made a
bomb, but gave the plan up at the
suggestion Of Haywood, who was in
fear that they would all be arrested.
He said that he and Adams were tod
to LAY off" for a time; but mean
time Pettibone suggested that they
kill Lyte Gregory, who had been a
deputy sheriff and had given testl-
mony against some Of the members
of the Federation.
The witness then detailed the re-
lentless trailing of Gregory and his
final murder.
Gregory turned and backed up
against fence said the witness,
as if to draw a gun, and ! shot him
three times. It certainly killed him. -
THE INDEPENDENCE TRAGEDY.
Then came the frightful tragedy
at Independence, followed by the
flight to Wyoming, and afterwards
the trip to San Francisco to kill Brad
ley. Horsely told his story Of the
Independence explosion in a low,
hu1ndrum tone, displaying not the
slightest feeling.
Haywood and the others said they
were having trouble in the Conven-
ton and there threatened to be a
split up said Horsely. They
thought if something was pulled off
in Cripple Creek the excitement
would make everything all right in
the Convention, and the delegates
would go home. We planned then
to blow up the independence depot
in Colorado. | asked Steve Adams if
he wanted to help and he said he did.
| gave him the money to get the pow
der and we took the powder to cab
in near the depot at independence
preparatory to using it the next
night The next day Sherman Parker
told me some Of the men from the
Convention were coming up to lnde-
pendence to make an investigation Of
the conditions there anG he told US to
not pull the thing off until they went
away.
They went away Sunday morning
and the same night we placed the
powder under the station platform,
wire to it and then await
ed for a train to come in. The trains
brought non-union men to Independ-
ence. We used 100 pounds Of the
powder.
"Steve Adams and l both pulled
the string which upset several bot
ties Of sulphuric acid. This acid ran
over a box of giant caps and these
set the powder off. The depot was
wrecked and from twelve to four
teen men were killed. "
Horsely swore that after his visit
to Denver, when he got the money
for killing Mccormick and Beck, he
was constant in communication and
N the pay of either Haywood or Mo
YER or Pettibone, Perkins or Davis;
hat one or all of them suggested his
7arious crimes, and that at all meet
nes held after each crime his acts
lad been warmly commended.