The San Francisco call., 1907-06-20

was in a jocular mood when he wrote
his recommendation He affected to be
greatly disturbed by the danger of
losing one OF his valuable and trusted
agents and to believe that the desertion
OF him for the insurance business on
the part OF Hogan was due TO the in
ducements offered him by Stearns- he
protested against having Hogan thus
Iured away. ~
PETTIB0NE PRAISES HOGAN"
Yes. I know Hogan" wrote Petit
bone, and am beginning to become
acquainted with YOU That was a
drive at Stearns for getting others of
PetUbone's agents to abandon general
novelties and go into life Insurance
Pettibone's letter throughout was IN
this tone, naturally giving Stearns the
impression that Pettibone was really
sorry TO lose Hogan's services
This letter probably explains the
character Of some OF the questions
that Richardson asked Orchard on cross
examination, when he wanted TO kno"
II Stearns had not been anxious 10
get him TO go into the life Insurance
business. II also explains, and th2t
was one OF the things that the prosecu-
tion wanted to get out, the close con-
nection between Pettibone and orchard
AT that time. thus avowed over Petit
bones signature and on his regular
business letter head.
Before Judge Goddard was called TO
the stand another San Francisco wit
ness gave testimony corroborating the
story that Orchard has told Of his
movements there while attempting to
kill Fred Bradley. This was Mrs.
Seward, the woman IN whose house
Orchard lodged for several weeks
while waiting to poison or dynamite
Bradley. She told OF seeing the wood
shavings on the floor and Of finding
other wood shavings wrapped UP in a
newspaper in the closet These We're
the shavings that Orchard said he
made when fixing up the bomb for
Bradley Mrs Seward said that she
found them just before Orchard left
her house. which was on the morning
Of the explosion, she was sure. al
though she gave the date as November
i. and the explosion, as & matter Of
fact, occurred the next day
MRS. SEWARD TESTIFIES
She also told OF finding a steel hook
or screweye fastened in the door of
the closet, with & piece Of hshline
attached 70 IL and q cork AZ the other
end OF the line. She had occasion 10
lift Orchards suit case and il was very
heavy. Orchard testified that he had
the bomb IN il.
On cross examination Mrs. Seward
told Richardson that she had had I5
OF Is calls from Pinkerton men on the
subject. She had received $50 for ex-
penses and railroad tickets with Pull
man accommodations. Sucn things al
ways seem particularly heinous TO the
defense. for some reason not as yet ex-
planned Richardson also asked a few
questions about an affidavit that Mrs.
Seward gave some time ago in san
Francisco when the gas company,
which was sued by the owner Of the
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the strength Of Orchards confession
It is understood that she then said
that she could not identify Barry, the
man who lodged in her house. from the
photograph OF Orchard. which was
shown TO her. She testified today,
however, that she had seen Orchard n
court and that he was the same man
who was in her house under the name
OF Barry.
Riley Harris. timer Of Greeley,
Colo. put another link in the chain re-
Earding the bomb that was made for
Governor Peabody. He was working
Tor Plumber Roach IN Denver the day
Orchard ordered the lead case, and ii
was he who delivered the thing TO
Orchard that afternoon and collected
$50 for it He remembered the event
particularly because the curious thing
stood IN the shop several hours that
DAY and everybody who saw it asked
about it
Then came one Of the most dramatic
recitals which has been given in this
courtroom It was the story told by
Judge Goddard OF the finding Of the
bomb.
TELLS OF FINDING BOMB
on February Is, 1906. I came into
possession Of certain information which
caused me TO make an investigation
near the gate Of my house." he began,
his legal training steering him away
from the attempt to tell what that in
formation was. as most other witnesses
would have done It was promptly
brought out by questions that one day
he received what purported TO be a
confession OF Harry Orchard
He went TO the P1nkerton Office in
Denver the next day and in company
with BulkIey Wells and several Pinker-
ton men returned TO his home It was
q cold day and the ground was frozen
He noticed that & small spot, just out
side the gate post. was very hard and
slightly depressed below the level Of
the surrounding earth He found in the
gaze. about an inch from the bottom,
a small, rusty screweye that he never
had noticed before. Judge Goddard and
ali the others Of the party except Wells
moved away to a safe distance. and
wells got down on his knees and with
z clasp knife began TO dig away the
hard ground at the depressed spot
The careful legal phraseology OF the
sudze furnished q very meager picture
Of what took place then It gave moth
ing OF the young man who, with wealth,
family. social position and every con-
sideration which ordinarily precludes
men from taking such risks, voluntarily
undertook to dig UP a dynamite bomb
out OF the frozen earth It was only
incidentally that the removal OF the
others from the place was mentioned,
and in the same incidental way the
way OF digging was named
Presently Wells uncovered the bot
ffe which Orchard told Of setting ot
rbat end OF the bomb with contriv-
anee 10 pull out the cork and spin
- suIphurfc acid il contained into
The giant caps in the dynamite, thus
setting of the bomb. Then Judge
GODDARD and his companions went up
s.s took . look. The cork had been
~,,lras partIy out OF the bottle; there
+ stuck and held back the acid
FAMILY's. ESCAPE NARROW
NV so narrow a margin We're the
49, - All the members Of the judges