The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-20
DRAMATIC DAY
IN THE HAY
WOOD TRIAL
HOW ORCHARD PLANTED BOMB
IN ATTEMPT TO KILL JUS
TICE GODDARD.
AGED JURIsr TOLD THE STORY
Pieces of the Bomb Offered as Evil
denCe Over Strenuous Objec-
ton BY the Defense.
tBy Associated Press,


BOISE, June 19.-The state today
made a dramatic production and
proof of the Goddard bomb and be-
sides offering further confirmation
of the testimony of Harry Orchard
against William ID. Haywood, secured
ruling under which a number of
the denunciatory articles published
in the Miners Magazine, official or
gan of the Western Federation of
Miners, will be admitted in evidence.
To Justice Luther M. Goddard,
himself, fell the task of telling the
story of the finding and preservation
esr use as evidence of the bomb with
which Orchard tried to kill him.
His appearance on the stand added
another to the many dramatic scenes
and situations that have character
ized the trial, and his testimony was
clear and minutely circumstantial.
The veteran Colorado jurist testified
that the first information he re-
ceived about the bomb came to him
from Orchards confession, which
was shown to him at Denver on Feb
ruary 13, 1906, by Detective McPar1
land. He went to his home and in
his gate discovered the screw-eye
which Orchard said he placed there
1t was rusted and corroded by ten
months exposure. The witness said
he examined the ground outside the
gate where Orchard said he placed
the bomb and found slight depres-
sion with the soil packed very hard
around 1t.
The bomb was dug up tie next day
by General Bulkley Wells, while
using a pocket knife to cut the soil
away, and raised the pine box con-
tanning the bomb. There was a small
phial on top of the box and attached
to the rubber cork of the phial was
piece of rusted wire. The bomb
and its attachments were at once
taken to the Office of the Pinkerton
Detective agency end carefully sealed
In wrappers and envelopes that were
signed by half dozen witnesses, in
Guiding Justice Goddard, and after
that they were placed in vault to
the door of which five seals, includ-
ing that of notary public, were at
tached. There they rested until the
following May 22nd, when, believing
the Haywood case was to come to
trial, they were removed in the pres
ence of the same witnesses and all
save the forty sticks of giant powder
contained in the bomb were exploded.
The explosions occurred in the
presence of the witnesses at a point
In the suburbs of Denver, and of the
bomb itself, II giant caps and two
wrappers torn from sticks of giant
$ l50Wder were saved as evidence.
Senator Borah produced the sew
eral packages, as they were original
ly sealed and commencing with the
phial, passed them to Justice God
dard, who broke the seals and identi-
fled the articles. After the phial
came the little screw-eye, then the
dozen giant caps and last the pow
der wrappers.
Attorneys Richardson and Darrow,
for the defense, objected to all the
evidence and all the exhibits, and
moved to strike out everything, but
the court ruled against them all
along the line.
Mrs. Seward - at whose house in
San Francisco Harry Orchard lived
during part of the time he was con-
ducting his operations against Fred
Bradley, gave testimony strongly
corroborative of Orchards account of
his acts and experiences in San Fran
cisco. Besides confirming Orchard s
recital as to time, movements and To-
cations, she testified that she found
lead and wood shavings in Orchards s
room and a screw-eye, striRg and
bundle attached to the closet door
where Orchard had been experiment.
Ing. She said her lodger had very
heavy suit case and that she made
hnVs Ind hot h l..
John l.. Stearns, agent at Denver
for the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany, confirmed the story Orchard
told about securing employment as
a solicitor for the company before
he went to Canon City to kill former
Governor Peabody and produced let
ters of recommendation which Or
chard furnished in response to his
request. One of the letters was
from George Pettibone, a co-defend-
ant or Haywood and it made jocular
reference to the fact that Stearns was
Saking many agents from him and
requested In future, when any of his
agents applied for work, they be put
out on the sidewalk. Another letter
was signed by Horace N. Hawkins.
partner of Attorney Richardson of
tuO uCiChoc, dhu II gave
then travelling under the name of
Thomas Hogan, a very strong recon-
mendation as to character. The de-
Tense objected to the admission of
the letters, but the court permitted
their introduction as evidence.
Riley Harris, young man who
worked for Roach, the plumber, who
made the lead casing for the Peabody
bomb, told of the call of Harry Or
chard at Roach's shop in Denver in
May, 1905, of the making of the cas-
ing and the delivery of the article to
Orchard, whom the witness identi-
fed.
The morning session was spent in
arguing the admissibility of the edi-
tOrials and articles published by the
Miners Magazine, which the state
offered late yesterday afternoon.
Each side took the Chicago anarchist
cases as its legal guide and justifi-
cation, the defense pleading that the
legal propositions varied. the prose-
cution that they were on all fOurs.