Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-12

Then why do you keep on telllns
me2" shouted Richardson
Because YOU try to make It appear
| that / am not telling the truth"
You ate under oath. aren't yon2'
Yes. sir"
"And you respect that OATH
Yes, sir"
"'Well. what are you kicking about"
I'm not kicking" said Orchard with
exasperating Calmness.
"By the way" questioned Richardson
anew. have you seen Mcfarland this
morning."
mo, sir.
See him last night2"
mo, SIR
Did you see him night before last?
| / forgot to ask you yesterday"
Tuesday night? No, sir. ="
Orchard said he had seen Mcfarland
| at Atty. Hawley's office yesterday
morning for few minutes.
| ORCHARD AS INSURANCE AGENT
| The witness said that when the hail
| Insurance business gave out he re-
turned to Denver and went to work on
| Judges Goddard and Gabbert. Orchard
said that Pettibone had agents out In
| the country soliciting orders FOR his
house specialties--such as carpet sweep
| ers clothes wringers, etc These men
! SOIltlllllPS solicited Ille insurance,
Several times during the cross-eXam-
nation Richardson said to Orchard.
Let's take the lid OFF this" The attor-
ney had been tainted by Senator Borah
| several days ago for taking the lid
off" and getting what he didn't want.
Orchard said he talked with Pettibone
about the Goddard and Gabbert affairs
| in the basement of the Pettibone store.
This basement was a repair shop
| where Pettihoue and his employees often
worked. wasn't it?" asked Richardson
Yes, sir"
And there was nothing suspicious
| about it,"
There was a tin box which didn't
look good to me"
We'll. what was in the tin box? Let $
take the lid off that, too"
You seem to have a lid on the
brain" chimed in Senator Borah. but
| Richardson did not heed the sally.
Orchard said he did not know all that
was in the box. He had seen some Of
| the things that had gone into it, Here
the matter was dropped.
orchard said he made the Goddard
and Gabbert bombs in Pettboues base
ment.
Did YOU get the materials out of the
tin boX?' asked Richardson.
mo, Pettibone had the powder buried
in his yard
PETTlBONE IN SALT LAKE
While he was making the second
| bomb, Orchard said Pettibone WAS in
Salt Lake. The bomb attempts on
| Judges Goddard and Gabbert were
| within a few days of each other. Or
chard said he talked with Pettibone
about the Gabbert bomb, which event.
ually killed man named Valley in
| stead Of the intended victim, but he
had not talked with any Of the fedora
| ton leaders regarding the Goddard
| bomb. He was acting under the in
struotions of several months before TO
| get the two judges.
The Goddard bomb was buried at the
| judges gate. IT never went off.
AFTER GEN, BELL.
These attempts failing. orchard said
he Went to work on Sherman Bell,
| Mrs. Pcttibone had gone east on a visit
and Orchard VAS stopping at the Petit
bone house. He said Pettlbone went
with him several times To the vicinity
of Bells home. They drove IN a rig.
The team was one OF several brouSh.
to Denver nom Cripple Creek after
the union stores had been looted by the
militia. They had been used in the
mining country to deliver relief goods
TO the families of the men on strike.
one of the team was gray mare, Or
chard said, and the other was used
up black
They weren't fit 10 drive as a team. -
said Orchard. The gray mare might
have been all right. but she was too
conspicuous. Haywood told us TO Guy
another horse and a good buggy TO use
In the Sherman Bell affair.
Hadn't Haywood received an offer
OF 500 for the team you say was all
used up?'
1T was something over $500 for the
horses, harness and wagon.
You were going 10 Kill sherman
Bell. you bought horse 70 help you
in the task and yet you went away IN
two weeks time?'
Yes,
and you didn't kill Bell2'
NO
Orchard said he never got an oppor-
tunity. He saw Bell once on twice ON
the porch.
Why didn't you shoot him.
Because il was dark where he sat
and was light where ] had 10 30 10
n ni the bonse' but there were some
little dogs who would start barking.
On these occasions rct ! w.,
waiting for you down the street IN III"
buggy?
II Aes' SIT
ORCHARD TO LET Up ON BELL.
orchard said Mover ordered INN 10
let up on sherman Bell. The president