The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-04
End OF HAYWOOD CASE NEAR
PROMISED THAT ALL EVIDENCE
WILL BE ~ THIS WEEK.

Judge Wood for an order requiring W. y.
Davis to remain in attendance on the Hay
wood murder trial The order was
promptly grained.
The Senator declines to say just what he
has in view regarding Davis, but II lie prob
ably something interesting.
Davis has been one Of the star witnesses
for the defence. II was he. according to
Orchard, who led the miners the day they
blew up the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
at Wardncr, Idaho, in 1899. or course
he denied on the witness stand that he was
at Wardner hat day, but il may be that
further light 10 about to be shed on the muir
derous doings OF April 20. 1890.
The end Of this long case 10 now almost
in sight.
Lawyer barrow, for the defence. an
nounced to-day that all his witnesses would
be heard this week excepting Haywood
and Meyer, and that il was possible he
might get to them, too.
Most Of to-day's witnesses were called TO
testify to the hardships suffered by union
men in the days Of de~portations In the Grip
pie Crock and Telluride districts and 10 the
unbridled doings Of the Mine Owners As
ISOLATION. the Citizens Alliance and the
militia. One or two testified concerning
the presence Of PinkertSn detectives among
the union miners and TO their tendency
TO do all they could to urge the men to vio-
lence. Several others we're called to i'm
peach Orchard. but at least one Of that
bunch, Pat Moran, the Cheyenne saloon
keeper. got of very badly.
Francis G Clifford. who "a a life insurance
agent had desk room in Petitioners store
in Denver in 1905. was he first man on the
stand to-day. He said hat Pettibone
introduced Orchard to him as Hogan and
that he saw him there a number of times
after that He talked with Hogan in June.
1905. about insurance, and Orchard said he
had made $500 or $500 in rail insurance
Immediately after that Orchard asked
Pettibone to cash a check for him and
Pettibone said he could't give him all the
money called for. but could give him part
OF IL. Orchard said thisw would be all right
Joseph c Barnes. who used TO belong to
q union organized by the Western Fedora
ton and who said he did a lot of prospecting
around Telluride, told Of seeing George
Riddell. a Pinkerton detective. at that place
He said he and Riddell were in Jail and in
the bull pen together
You were chums. were you?"
Yes, sir: they called us the three brothers
myself, my prOlner anu MIN
Riddell il the detective who got TO be
an officer Of the Telluride union and re-
NAMED so for a long time before the other
miners found out who he really was
The witness said he was thrown into Jail
by the civil authorities for making signs
and gestures intended to intimidate men
from working in the Tomboy mine They
took him 10 Montrose then. he said. but
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they arrested him again and put him in the
bull pen. but discharged him soon afterward.
He didn't know what was the charge
against him. Barnes declared that Riddell
said that il they had not acted like a lot Of
schoolboys they would have run those bad
men out long ago. The witness said he
didn't know what they could do that they
were not doing. whereupon, he said, Rid
dell replied:
Il can tell you. We can go to using
dynamite; we can blow up the ~Smuggler
Union or the Liberty Belle mine. We can
go up to the powder house near the Liberty
Belle and break il oren and take the powder.
We can fill some beer kegs with the powder
and put In fuses and light them and roll
them down on the Liberty Bell mine"
Wouldn't we kill somebody" asked
Barnes.
Sure Riddell said. What difference
would it make if we did kill a scab or two'"
The witness said he had said he would not
stand for anything like that and wasn't
going to do any killing to ruin that strike;
reside if ANYTHING like that hapr enei the
troops would he in there inside OF two
hours.
Another Slsn RiddeIl proposed, accord
ing to the witnesses, to get the deported
men from Montrose to Telluride was 10 get
all the arms possible, seize a train, threaten
the engineer, cut the wires and go back
and stay. Barnes had other plans for
deeds of violence that he said Riddell pro-
posed, but none of them was executed.
Barnes went on TO say that he saw Riddell
with Orchard when the latter came TO Ouray
with Meyer the time the federation presi-
dent was arrested there. He saw them
in a hotel.
did you ever in your own mind intend
TO commit any crime?" demanded Senator
Borah when he got at the witness
well, | guess | did, admitted Barnes.
when | ca me back to Telluride | had made
up my mind | would kill anybody that
tried to stop me. ! told Riddell, and he
said he was going TO do the same"
"Did you and Riddell ever go out to kill
anybody together"
SNo-o," said the witness doubtfully.
Il don't think we did" hut he did not seem
TO be so perfectly sure about IL. In Decem-
Der, lWOS, the witness SAID the strike
committee held a meeting, and all the mem
bers were In favor of calling the strike Of
except Riddell. He stood out against il,
and the strike wasn't called OF, despite
the fact that there were five men on the
strike committee. Riddell said he would
stand for il.
Pat Moran came up next. He worked
for Pettibone from 1895 TO 1890. Then
he started a saloon at Cheyenne. He's
the man Orchard said he sent to Pettibone
after $500 in the summer Of 1904. Moran
was to deny the statement about getting
that $500. This he fatty did. saying that
he did not say two dozen words to Orchard
in Cheyenne and had never seen him since
until he came TO Boise
John Dennis, a union miner, who lived
in Cripple Creek, testified to hearing violence
counselled by Charles beckman, who was
supposed to be a union miner, but turned
out later to be a detective.
George Breen, who used TO run an engine
or the Florence and Cripple Railroad, told
OF the raid by the militia on the mining
camp at Dunville on June 8, 1904. when one
man was killed
David {. Coates. better known as Dave,
who was Governor in Colorado
when the labor people we're dominant in
politics there, got a chance to-day to say