The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-13


Peabody. Bell Goddard. GabbsTt and
some of the mine owners and tell them
they We're not forgotten and that the only
way they could avoid getting what Steu-
nenberg got was to die. Haywood said
it would be like living death to all these
men to know some one was after them
all the time.
Haywood also said Ed. Boyce had al
ways wanted something done to Steunen-
berg
Meyer spoke up and said that he
thought it would have a good effect to
get Steunenberg after letting him go so
many years. Haywood said he had sent
Art. BastOn, Ed. Minister, Steve Adams
and a man named Mccarthy to Caldwell
to get Steunenberg. but they had not
succeeded Pettibone said he thought it
would be a hard proposition to get man
in little town like Caldwell.
"Pettibone baked at this, did hep
No sir; he just said he thought it
Hard to get a man who drove out
into the mountains alone every day?"
He said IT would be a hard PROPOSE
ton"
Orchard said Pettibone suggested that
he take the Peabody bomb On the trip
Orchard had brought the bomb from Can
on City to Denver and buried it. This
bomb was rather unique in that an alarm
clock was attached to it, When the alarm
went off string fastened to the alarm
key would wind up and pull over the
bottle of sulphuric acid which would
plode the giant caps and dynamite.
Orchard said he asked for $500 to cover
the expense of his trip to Nevada to get
Neville and to Idaho to assassinate Steu-
nenberg. He got S24G Just before start
ing and had $50 previously.
Promised a Ranch.
WAS anything said at your conference
with Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone re-
garding a rancho
Yes, sir. / said that if l finished the
JOB l was starting out on | ought to be
through with this business and have a
ranch l had been promised.
Then you were getting tired of this bust
ness at last?'
Yes. sir. Pettibone spoke of getting
the ranch up on Puget Sound"
Wasn't that because of a letter he had
got from man up there who said it was
a great place. where you had CLAIMS in
the front yard and chickens in the back
yard; that the high tide would leave the
CLANS in the front yard and the chick
ems would eat the clans and all he had
to do was to kill the chickens?"
There was something about letter"
defense had such letter in its possess
sion the letter would be the best evil
dence.
We have got it," snapped Richard
son.
Il thought not" said Borah.
Seems to me-" chimed in Attorney Oar
row, that the CLANS would be the best
''clam ranch" incident was closed.
'Pettibone said he thought it would be
a good thing for us all to have a ranch
up near the British Columbia line" said
Orchard.
Assassin In Salt Lake.
Starting from Denver, Orchard said Pet
tibOne helped him pack his trunk. He
helped put in a bomb case and twenty-five
pounds of dynamite. With this danger
Gus burden the trunk was checked as
ordinary baggage to Nampa, Ida, nine
miles from Caldwell. Orchard bought
a round trip ticket to Portland, Ore. the
Lewis and Clark exposition being on at
the time He stopped off several days
at Salt Lake. He met several friends
while there They commented upon his
evident prosperity and he told them he
had an easier way to make money than
by working.
sharp and that you made YOUR money that
way?' asked Richardson.
No"
And that you were enroute to Port
land to run shell gamer"
From Salt Lake Orchard came on df-
rect to Nampa and began to make in !
quiries there about Steunenberg.
After he had been in Idaho some little |
time Orchard said he called up Bill East |
erly at Silver City, Ida, on the long dis |
lance telephone.
4 asked if he didn't want to come over
and help me on a contract. He said he |
was too busy to leave at that time"
From Nampa Orchard went to Caldwell |
where he spent a day or two. Cover |
nor Steunenberg was at Boise, however |
and Orchard came on here.
BY the way" said Richardson. didn't |
tell you that Steunenterg rode /
out in a blackboard every day to one of /
his sheep ranches, and that would be |
a good chance to get him?'
He told me the governor did that; he |
did not say where to get him.
Orchard said commission man to |
whom he had gone to inquire about buy
ing lambs pointed Steunenberg out to /
him. He learned the governor was stop
ping at the Idanha hotel. Orchard went !
over and got a room on the same floor !
as the governor. He entered the room |
with a pass key and looked around with |
the idea of setting the bomb under the |
bed in a grip with an alarm clock to set |
il off.
THE bomb would have blown the hotel |
all to pieces, wouldn't itg'
Yes
And you were willing to do this?"
Yes
Did you expect to stay in the hotel
that night?'
No, sir.
You were willing to kill everybody but |
! ourself?''
Yes"
Orchard said he had not brought the |
trunk containing the bomb from NamDa |