The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-07
WILMINGTON. n. c., JUNE z, 1907

mob. He told of the seizure of train
the theft of giant powder, the attack
on the mines and, concluding he said:
II lit one Of the fueges myself"
Orchard then told of his flight into
Montana and of various journeys in
the western country until he turned
up in Cripple Creek in 1902, went to
work in the mines and joined the
Western Federation Of Miners again,
under fire of renewed objections from
the defense, all of which were over
ruled by the court, on the strength of
Il repeated promise BY the state to
show the Connection of the defendant
later. s:H7
The witness told of the plot to blow
up the Vindicator mine. HI. declar-
ed that after the strike began lie went
into the mine High Grading and
there discovered a quantity of pow
tder -
He reported this to Davis, and there,
he said began the plot to do violence
to the mine. He said that the first
attempt was failure because the
cagemen discovered him and his pal
trivance was successfully fixed by
which a discharged pistol set off p
bomb and killed Superintendent Nc
COrmick and Foreman Beck Five
hundred dollars he said was the re-
ward for the murder. Then came the
journey to Denver, where the witness
said he met Meyer Haywood and Pet
tlbone and entered heir employment
as an assassin. He swore HAYWOOD
paid him $500 for blowing up the Vim
dicator mine
Then came the making of the two
pomps that Weree tossed into the
coal heap at the Vindicator mine, but
they were never heard of again. and
ther a depression to confess that be-
lore the successful attempt at the
Vlndlcator mine he had notified the
railway management of a plot to
blow up it's trains carrying non-union
men.
Next Horsley related how he iour-
neyed to southern Colorado as n guard
to Meyer and here the narrative.
which had been attacked from everv
SIde bH the defense at every material
point, matted for the noon recess
Word that Horsley was on the stand
spread through the city, and few
moments after the doors of the court
were opened in the afternoon every
available seat for the public was
taken, and the deputies mad to force
the doors shut and clear awav
clamoring crowd that jammed the
stairway and landing.
HOrSley spent the noon recess ~,
der guard at the lawyers office and at
1'5O o'clock was driven back TO the
court house 20 resume his story He
told of his journey with Mover and
MS return 20 Denver, where it was
suggested. he said, that he kill Cow
ernor Peabody Of Colorado. He said
ne picked Steve Adams to- aid him.
and together they stalked the gov
ernor between the capitol and his
home, trying for d shot at him with
short shotguns. Haywood and Petit
bone were in the plot and furnished
the witness with money from time
to time
The plot failed because Horsiey and
Adams. followed. a. carriage. con-
tanning two women to the Peabody
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 wuold all be arrested
He said that he and Adams were told
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 testi-
mory against some of the members of
the federation,
The witness then detailed the relent-
less trailing Of Gregory and his final
murder.
''Gregory turned and backed up
against fence" said the witness, ''as
if to draw sun, and 1 shot him three
times. 1t certainly killed him"
Then came the frightful tragedy at
Independence, followed by the flight
to Wyoming, and afterwards the trip
to San Francisco to kill Bradley.
Horsley told his story of the Inde-
pendence explosion in a low, hum
drum tone, displaying not the slightest
feeling.
Haywood and the others said they
We're having trouble in the convention
and there threatened to be a split up
said Horsley. They thought that if
something was pulled off in Cripple
Creek the excitement would make
everything all right in the conven-
ton and the delegates would go
home we planned then to blow I'D
the Independence depot in Colorado.
I asked State Adams if he wanted to
help and he said he did. gave him tba