The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-09
TAKING OF 4
 DEPOSITINS Weary Day i.iaywood
 TG. NO INTEREST MANIFESTED Endeavor to Contradict Story of
 Harry Orchard. Frisco People Declare Explosion wa. Due to Escaped Gas and There
 Was No Trace of
 Dynamite.


 tire morning session of the Haywood trial was taken up today with the reading of testimony offered by the defense on the explosion at the house of Fred Bradley in Washington Street. San Francisco, in 1905.
 The testimony was taken by com mission appointed by Judge Wood, who is presiding at the present trial and was intended to contradict Harry Or chard's story as to the placing of a bomb on the front porch of the Brad ley home as a part of the conspiracy alleged against the Western Fedora ton of Miners and of which the State asserts that the Steunenberg murder was an incident.
 The defense during the stay of the commission in San Francisco secured the testimony of Bradley himself and several others. expressing the belief that the explosion was due to gas and declaring that the havoc wrought by it was not caused by dynamite. Or chard declared that the bomb arranged by him to be exploded when the front door was opened contained about ten pounds of dynamite encased in large section of lead pipe.
 The reading of the testimony which was taken in question and answer form was begun immediately after conven- ing of court at 10 o'clock. Attorney
  task and seated himself In the high witness chair facing the jury. The attorney read first the testimony of Walter H. Linforth. the owner of the apartment house in which Bradley lived. Linforth sued the gas company and was awarded $10,000 damages. With the Orchard confession as basis the gas company is seeking new trial.
 Linforth, who lived In the next build ing to the apartments declared that the noise of the explosion was terrific and the windows in houses for blocks around were broken.
 Hurrying to the scene Linforth said he could not smell any powder nor did he see any fragments of lead.
 Found Hole fin Meters. t
 In the, basement of the apartment house there were seven gas meters. Two months after. the explosion two plumbers found a hole in the back of one of the meters. The building was afiame and gas escaping in the cellar could rise between the walls to the vestibule. where the explosion occurred. The Linxorth testimony had not been completed when the luncheon adjourn ment was ordered.
 Fred Miller, the attorney for the de- fense, who has been engaged in the taking of the depositions in San Fran CISCO LOT lne ldSI IlOIltllp dPpCoA Cd Ai court this afternoon and joined the at- torneys surrounding Haywood.
 senator BOrah Objects.
 Senator .Borah objected to the intro- duction of the re-cfoss examination or Walter Linforth, the owner of the Lin forth building in San Francisco when the explosion occurred in November, 1904. The re-cross examination con- tained in the depositions was offered hn admissability of this portion of the deposition was argued by Richardson for the defense and Senator Borah for the State.
 Judge Wood ruled the re-cross ex- animation out.
 MT. Darrow then began on the testi- mony of MT. Bradley himself In his testimony Bradley stated that on the morning of the explosion, November II, 1904, he started to leave his apartments about 7:3O a. m. He had a lighted cigar in his mouth as he walked down stairs.
 The attorneys who took Bradleys testimony asked how long space of time there was between the flash at the end of the cigar and the explosion
 SmelIed the Gas.
 I had no time to think: I had been given a trick cigar" was the reply.
  newspaper, string or screw eye in the vestibule or on the door. Asked If he smelled the gas at the time of the ex- plosion MT. Bradley said he did after being smashed to the floor"
 He added that he was familiar with the smell of exploding powder and dy- naroite but could detect the fumes of neither at the time of the explosion. and Mrs. Bradley had complained to the gas company about the matter. Bradley declared he was never pres ident of the Mine owners Association of California. and he never attempted to drive out of California the West ern Federation of Miners or its mem- bers.
 Senator Borah relieved Mir Darrow in reading the cross examination of Bradley In this portion of his testi- mony Bradley said he was not sure whether he had stepped across the threshhold when the explosion occur red Asked If he had smelled gas the morning of the explosion. Mir. Bradley said he did.
 week or so prior to theI explosion, Mrs. Bradley had complained of smell ing gas on the stairs, while the wit ness himself could smell nothing. There had been general complaint in the house about the escaping gas,
 Toward the conclusion of his deposi- ton bIduleY SdlQ that HIS llTSI DtIltI that the explosion was caused by gas had been considerably modified by Or chard's confession and the other tes- timonY offered on the subject.
 After the Bradley deposition that of Percy Cummings, who occupied one of the flats in San Francisco. was read Cummings left the house just before the expolsion and said that he saw no bomb at Bradley's door. Cummings testified that had the bomb been there he would undoubtedly have seen 1t.
 On cross examination Cummings said he did not remember seeing the door mat at Bradley's door and that he was not paying particular attention 10 Bradleys door and the vestibule of the flats.
 The next deposition to be read was that of J. B Reilly. who resided near the Linforth flats in San Francisco He passed the Linforth building ten min utes before the explosion and testified that he saw a Japanese servant wash