The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-16

Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill at Wardner
April 70. 1909. was called first thing this
morning. He testified that the W. +. Davis
who was in 1908 the president OF Altman
Union, No.. 10. in the Cripple Creek district
was the man he referred to. The only
thing they got ont OF Dewey on cross
examination was the fact that when he left
the union In Cripple Creek in 1903 he "
$40 or $40 TO the union store and had never
paid the debt.
Last week the defence read a deposition
from j. b. Riley. taken in San FraDcisco.
in which he testified TINT on the morning
Of the Bradley explosion he WALKED up the
street from his house to the store OF OIu-
biny. the grocer. where he had a drink
that Giubiny served him. and then walked
home. The explosion, Riley said. .oc.
Cured Just after I've got home, He added
that as he left the saloon he saw a japanese
working on the sters Of the Bradley house.
J the object of his testimony being to show
that Orchard did not have time to place
the bomb where he said he put it after the
Japanese left the steps; o., ,,.,
Giubiny. Icing recalled, testified that
he knew Riley. but that he did not see him
I the day of the explosion until after the
explosion, As y matter OF fact, the grocer
said he WIS In bed when the bomb went on.
There was also testimony in the San
rancisco depositions 10 show hat
Orchard could not have hidden on the
roof of the fiathouse ~ he said he did
while the dairymsn op me mp the back
stairs and left the milk that was subse-
quently poisoned. as Orchard says. by
himself. Giubiny told the jury that the
roof OF the fathouse next door TO the
Bradley home ca me about on a level with
the top Of the Bradley back sta rs. which
were outside the building. and that a man
could never have limbed from those back
stairs TO this adjoining roof. Mrs. Giu-
biny cal me along then and hacked up what
her husband said about having been at
home and not in the 81 loon when the ex-
ploeion took place.
This case has been thankfully free from
the curse OF expert testimony 80 far. but
the next witness, G. ID. Lamson OF the Boise
Gas Company, MARRIED the record. He
was called 10 tell about the effect Of ex-
p~losions of Illuminating gas. with reference
TO the claim of the defence that it was gas
and not a bomb that blew Bradley into the
street.
Bradley had testified that when he was
blown up he saw what seemed "A fash at
the end Of his lighted cigar. Mr.. Hawley
asked the witness about exploding gas
1T il impossible for common Illuminating
gasto he exploded from the glow OF a cigar
said the expert. unless the wrapper were
famed into a flame. IL takes a flame
temperature. in other words. to explode
Illuminating gas"
There were a lot more technical ques-
tons to which Lamson replied. He said
that the presence Of enough gas to be ex-
ploded by a flame would be Immediately
detected by the ~nostrils.
Bradley deposed that when he came
downstairs into the hall. smoking a cigar,
! just before the explosion, he smelled no
gas at all, though he had smelled il two or
three days before. Lamson said further
that il a great deal OF gas was exploded
the victim would he badly burned. The
Bradley explosion was heard ten or fifteen
blocks away. but Bradley. though hurled
into the street, was not burned at all.
Lawyer Sabin was recalled in the after
noon TO give some information about the
character of the organization known az
the Citizens Alliance, which the defence
has spent 30 much time in attac. ing. He
said that in Idaho Springs the alliance
was 90 per cent. miners and labOrers and
/ the rest were business or professional men.
Practically every business man there
belonged TO the alliance. The organiza-
ton was formed to protect the n%on-union
miners from the aggressions OF the union
men. who we're demanding that the mines
| shoul employ none but union men. The
Sun and Moon property was blown up
before the alliance was formed and the
deportations we're the result OF the action
of the citizens OF Idaho Springs generally
and not Of the Citizens Alliance. Richard
son tried to show that 1t was likely that
the mine owners had their men blow up
the Sun and Moon transformer house so
az 10 give an excuse for running out the
union men. but MIR. Sabin said that was
most unlikely, for the reason that forty or
fifty n~oD-union men were working in a shaft
that was between twenty and forty feet
away and That il the dynamite had cboked
up that shaft they might all have been
killed.
The ~ late recalled d. c. Scott, a detective
employed by the Florence and Cripple
Creek Railway, to contradict the testimony
of Aller. the man who swore that he saw
Orchard in Scott's room in Cripple Creek
within three weeks before the Independence
station was blown up.
Scott contradicted Aller all right and both
said and pretty well proved that he was
not IN or near Cripple Creek at the time
Aller testified.
barrow spent a good deal of time trying
to mix the witness ON his dates, but he didn't
do il. Then he took Scott over the story
Of his acquaintance with Orchard. ( agreed
thoroughly with Orchards account of il.
excepting in one particular. Orchard said
he never talked with X. G. Sterling. a Mine
Owners Association detective, but Scott
thought he had seen Orchard and Sterling
! together twice, both times in SCOTS Office.
Scott said he never spoke to Orchard after
one day in February. 1904, when he followed
him into a saloon In Denver and Orchard
identified him to Adams.
The defence. OF course. has been trying
TO find evidence from which to argue that
Orchard has all along been an agent of
detectives. Orchards account OF his re-
lations with Scott and Sterling was that he
first told Scott that there was going 10 he
an attempt to wreck n train because he
was sore because the union leaders hadn't
given him the job. After that he took
SCOTS money and gave him in return the
double cross.
Mrs. Lloyd Baker. who kept the Miles
Hotel in Denver in 1904. swore that he
told the truth when he said he stayed at
her hotel from April -. 1904. until June -.
He was away only three days in all that
time and that was late in the month Of
April. This put Witness Alters testimony
completely out Of consideration and the
talk that he said Orchard. Sterling and
Scott had in Cripple Creek just before
the Independence explosion vanished into
thin air.
The States rebuttal will probably close
tomorrow. II is unlikely that the defence
will occupy more than one day with its