The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-07

the "he leading - the ponI0 anl ,TS
could not pull IL We threw the bomb
IN the river and reported TO Pettibone
that we had failed He said 1t was
too bad
After this We tried to shoot Gov
| ernor Peabody, hanging around his
! house for long time but not getting
| an opportunity. We also tried TO
shoot Frank Hearne of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company. Haywood
said Hearne was trying to fix the leg
islature against US and would be a
good man to get out Of the way He
also said that Dave Moffatt, president
Of the First National bank, was an
other. He said he was convinced that
MOffatt was behind the people who
were fighting the Western Federation
OF Miners"
Adams and Orchard watched Mof-
fatts house for some time with a
gun, but accomplished nothing.
We We're also told to get after
Judge Goddard. who, Haywood said,
was instrumental IN defeating the
eight-hour bill, which had been de-
clared unconstitutional by the supreme
court Of Colorado.
''At the fall elections Peabody was
succeeded by Governor Mcdonald.
Peabody went TO live at Canyon City.
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone, all
three. told me to keep after Peabody.
II was arranged that I should become
q life insurance solicitor"
Another Bomb for Peabody.
Orchard declared he got recommen-
dations for that position with one Of
the big agencies in Denver from Mr.
Hawkins, an attorney and partner of
E. F. Richardson, one of the attorneys
now representing Haywood and from
J. c. Sullivan. president of the State
Federation OF Labor.
Orchard said he decided TO prepare
bomb to place beneath Peabody's
bedroom window at Canyon City. Colo.
The state here created something of
a sensation by producing in evidence
the lead casing Of the bomb. II was
the sine Of a two-gallon can. Orchard
identified It, He said he had shown
the casing to Pettibone in Denver and
loaded it in the basement of Petit
bones store, the latter assisting him.
Thirty pounds of giant powder were
used.
Orchard then told Of planting a
pomb in vacant lot which Judge
Gabbert crossed on his way home.
We left a wire out of the bomb"
Orchard said, and TO this We intend
ed fastening a pocketbook, the idea
being that Judge Gabbert would pick
up the purse and thus upset the bot |
tie Of sulphuric acid inside the bomb. |
AS Judge Gabbert started out the next |
morning | rode ahead OF him on q |
bicycle and fastened ne pocketbook |
TO the wire rode off 65wn town and |
did not hear an explosion until an |
hour afterward. A man named Wally |
had picked up the pocketbook and
was killed. Judge Gabbert had passed |
without noticing It,"
Orchard told the details Of his move |
ments almost day by day, stretching |
his narrative out TO great length. He |
said the next man selected for attack |
was Sherman Bell. former ad1utant |
general of Colorado, who had been |
in breaking up strike. |
About this time Moyer returned to
Colorado and when he found out what |
was going on ordered II stopped. |
Meyer, Orchard declared, said he did
not want anything pulled off In Den.
yer while he was there. as he would |
surely be arrested. He also said he |
bad some outside work which was |
more important Orchard had now |
brought his story down TO August,
1905.
Tells OF Steunenberg Case.
The witness went back TO June of
that year, however, to tell Of another
attempt on Judge Goddard. This was |
made a few days after the failure to
get" Judge Gabbort The bomb for
Judge Goddard was planted In a grass
plot near the gate leading into the |
front yard Cf his residence. The con-
necriGn with the bomb broke in some
without exploding It. Then
Tor the first time the witness came
down 10 the S.eunenberg case.
Haywood suggest ed" he said. that
we ought to get Ex-Governor Steunen-
berg. He thought that If we got him
after letting him go seven or eight