The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-23

would discuss it a bit more. He did for
] half an hour.
He didn't pretend 10 he able 10 say SKA Ct "
how the explosion oo place. but was cure
H. was accidental, and he believed the jury
would 80 regard it. Mr.. Richs rdson re-
tortsd 10 Hawley's vehement query as TO
I why Steve Ada ma was not put on the witness
stand by the defence. 10y inquiring why the
state had not called X. G.. Sterling 10 tell
! what he knew about Orchards doings i'm
, Cripple Creek.
No answer could be made to this before
the jury. but the simple truth is that at
various times while this case was in process
OF preparation Sterling, who was formerly
employed az a detective by the Cripple
Creek Mine Owners Association. has been
employed 10 get evidence for both The
state and the defence. and that neither
one OF them wanted to put him on the wit
ness stand lest his answers might please
the other side more than the side that
called him.
MIR. Ricba rdson didn't spend much tim.
discussing Orchards trip from Denver TO
Ouray as Meyers shotgun guard. except
to point out that not even Orchar con.
tended that there was anything criminal
in il.
The State merely maintains that il went
to show the intimacy between Orchard
and the federation's president
Counsel for the defence moved on from
Ouray 10 Lyle Gregory. the man Orchard
says Pettibone told him TO kill and whom
he did kill in Denver in 1904. Lawyer
Rabbit testified that IL Gregory had not
been killed he would have been a witness
against federation men in al arson trial
The inference was that Gregory was killed
TO prevent his testifying, an inference Mr..
Richardson combatted. by saying that
Gregory was not called in a previous case
where the evidence was practically the
same.
Is for the Independence station ex-
plosion, when fourteen non-union men were
killed. Richardson said that il the fedora
tion leaders instigated il they did the most
idiotic. the most imbecile. the most fatuous
thing that could possibly be done so far
as the interests OF the federation were
concerned. He pointed TO the fact that
The explosion was followed by a riot as a
result OF which the federation miners were
all run out Of the district and had not re-
turned to this very day.
Mr.. Richardson devoted considerable
time to the discussion Of conflicting testi-
mony about Orchards whereabouts in
Wallace. Idaho. in that month at a time
when another witness says he was staying
Mt a certain hotel in Denver.
The materiality of this point does not
appear: as none OF the crimes testified to by
Orchard occurred at or near hat time.
Mr.. Richa rdson made a savage attack
on the testimony given by Miss Cora Pea
body, daughter Of Gov. Peabody. who said
she saw two men hanging aroun her car
ria ~ when she alighted from it one evening
after returning from the theatre.
This was in corroborat ton of Orchards
testimony that he and Steve Ada ms were
expecting 10 shoot Peabody that night
when he got home. and that they watched
for the carriage. only to be disappointed
when three women, including Miss Peabody.
got out
When il came to the San Francisco matter
and the blowing up Of Bradley. Mr.. Richard
son appeared TO argue that the fact that
there was evidence connecting Pettibone
with crime proved that Pettibone had no
connection whatever with il. Had Petit
bone planned the crime. he said. he would
have taken good care that there should not
be any evidence connecting him with il.
The lawyer went on to discuss the San
Francisco evidence at length and to argue
that nearly all the evidence showed that
Bradley was blown up by gas and not by a
bomb. The line OF this argument has been
clearly indicated by the testimony hereto
fore offered by the defence and detailed at
length in II SUN. Some time tomorrow
MIR. Richardson will get around TO Steunen-
haru