The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-25

burning of the Neville saloon. He laid
around Denver gambling and got ac-
quainted with Pettibone- He told Petit
bone he was fugitive from Cripple Creek
and wanted to leave the state
Explanation of Money Matters.
Here Mr. Darrow explained the defense's
theory as to the transmission of money
from Pettibone to Orchard He said:
Orchard asked PettibOne to keep sum
of money for him, saying he would write
him from time to time Pettbone had
big safe where ne kept things for many
persons. Orchard gave him the money to
put away. He also gave him a Masonic
charm and his membership card in the
Western Federation of Miners and other
trinkets Pettibone went out and helped
Orchard to buy some camp things. fish
ing tackle etc. Orchard went to Chey-
ennp with the two Neyilles. At Cheyenne
he Ioafed about Pat MOrans saloon. He
never asked Moran to go to Pettibone
and get money and Moran never went TO
AFTER orchard disappeared from Chey--
enne ne did not come back to Denver that
wear so far as any persons connected with
this case knows. But in the meantime 1t
was claimed in Denver that the Western
Federation of Miners had caused the
death of Lyle Gregory. Our evidence VIII
show that the federation had no grieV-
ance whatever against Gregory. and knew
nothing about him. Gregory had been a
deputy i'm the coal fields in which the
organization headed by John Mitchell
alone was Interested
The Pettibone Letters.
Orchard said when he left Denver that
he would write to Pettibone. He dld SO
and got replies. They used assumed
names, as did all the fugitives from Ihe
mining country. Orchard eventually
turned up in San Francisco, but he never
blew up any house there. That stoIS
about the Bradley house was announcer pl
Orchards pipe dreams thrown IN 10 hahe
him the greatest criminal of the age we
have a deposition from Mr.. Bradley in
which he says the house was wrecked py
gas; that he smelleda 1.-The gas ana lndt
when he lighted his cigar the explosion
occurred. Why. if the bomb this man Ut
chard has described had exploded as he
said it did, you could not have found
square inch of Bradley anywhere, ana not
stick of timber of the house, Orcharq
never blew up the Bradley house, ana
tell YOU this without having any special
interest in defending Harry Orchard,
"In San Francisco when Orchard was
there. d. G. Copley was delivering IlluS-
trated lectures on the Cripple creek
strike Orchard went to the lecture one
night and asked if he had heard OF me
explosion at Bradley's house. IopleS
said he had. and Orchard then sald tnat
Bradley had got what he deserved-that
he had heen in the Occur d Alenes and
was partly responsible for the militia De
ing called into the district.
Threats Made by Orchard.
"Orchard said there was another of
RradleV's kind-that it was Governor
Steunenberg. If il had not have been
for him. said Orchard, I'D be rich man
today, and I'll kill him If 1t is the last act
of my life
1--WE will prove Orchards threats
against Steunenberg-prove that he said
Steunenberg made him pauper instead
of millionaire, not by Copley alone, put
by not less than twelve men and women
and they won't all be members OF Ine
Western Federation of Miners. either we
will establish a cause for Orchards act
against Steunenberg and we feel we can
not fail to convince you. =,
"Orchard wrote to Pettibone while in
San Francisco and asked that some OF
his money be sent him. 1t was sent IN
the name of ]. Wolff, a clerk in Petti-
homes store Orchard telegraphed twice
70 Pettibone for money and gave full in
structions how It should be sent. In what