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curing the admission or mucn evidence
bearing on points Of Orchards tale.
First there was showing that Steve
Adams stranded at Ogden in June, 1903,
on the way home from California,
where it is alleged, he went to kill
Bradley, sent a telegram to Haywood
at Denver for money.
Next 1t showed by the originals of
the six drafts on New York banks, five
of which were purchased at the First
National bank of Denver by Haywood
himself, that during 1904, 1906 and 1905
money was frequently RENTED by
Haywood to l.. J. Simpkins, former
member of the executive board of the
Western Federation of Miners, who as
Simmons" came to Caldwell with
Harry Orchard and assisted In the first
attempt to kill Steunenberg. The last
draft sent in January, after the order
was cashed by Mrs. Simpkins, pre-
sumably after Simpkins had fled.
After that came the production Of
the shattered and twisted fragments of
the device by which the Vindicator
bomb was set off and this led to an ex-
tended inquiry by the defense into con-
ditions and events centering about
Cripple Creek during the strike and
martial law days. The defense tried
to show that there had been unwar-
ranted deportation of union miners,
that the calling of the militia was un-
warranted, that union stores had been
looted, that agents of the mine owners
had committed acts of violence and in
cited others to violence. that union
miners had been flogged and driven
from their homes, and that peace Off
GERS controlled by the mine owners had
employed men who were gun fighters
and criminals.
sshss"s Peabody Bomb
Next the state completed the legal
history of the Peabody bomb, first by
showing that 1t was dug out of the ice
in the Couer d'Alene river, then that
1t was brought to Boise and taken on
to Denver, and lastly by identifying
its casing in court by the plumber who
made it. The Peabody family was
present during this testimony and
watched the bomb cover every moment
that it was displayed before the wit
ness stand,
Then the state once more took UP the
general thread of Orchards story and
successively offered the testimony of
Miss Peabody to the incident related
by Orchard where he and Steve Adams
followed the. Peabody carriage home,
the evidence of Governor Peabody that
that he had seen Orchard in Canon City
and that he had repaired his house as
Orchard testified, the testimony show
Ing that at various times in 1905 Hay
wood, Pettibone and Orchard were
seen together. and a general conf1rma-
ton by William Vaughn of the trip
that Orchard and Vaughn made to
Canon City, and lastly proof that Steve
Adams was at Pocatello in September,
presumably to meet and throw "Petti-
done dope" at carload of non-union
miners.
Judge Wood is to go to Caldwell on
Monday to continue the case of Harry
Orchard, charged with the murder of
Steunenberg, and there will be no ses-
sion of the court here on that day.
Orchard will be taken to Caldwell to
make formal appearance when the
case is called.
Miss Peabody Testifies
Miss Cora May Peabody, the second
daughter of Governor Peabody and
strikingly handsome girl, was today
called to the stand to testify as to the
time Orchard said he and an accom-
plice stole up behind Governor Pea
body's carriage one night early in 1904,
prepared to shoot the chief executive
of Colorado. Only part of the women
alighted and Orchard ran away. Miss
Peabody said that she and her mother
and sister had been to the theater one
evening. Upon their return home they
alighted to find two men almost at
the carriage door.
lone was so close I could have
touched him." said Miss Peabody, who
added that she and her sister and
mother watched the men as they ran
away and then telephoned to a detec-
tive agency
On cross-eXamination Miss Peabody
was asked If she had not been ap-
pointed colonel in the Colorado ma
tional guard. She said it was her
sister.
80 we are not addressing Col.
Peabody" commented Haywood's at
torey, as he plunged into long line of
questioning designed to fix the date of
the incident testified to. Miss Peabody
could not say what the date was even
approximately. She did not recall what
theater the party attended.
Former Governor James H. Peabody
next was called and sworn. His testi-
mony was brief He said Harry Or
chard had been pointed out to him on
one occasion. He saw Orchard on the
streets of Canon City after the Pea
body family went there to live.
Saw Orchard with Haywood
There was no cross examination of
former Governor Peabody.
e. S. Raymond, a special police Of
ficer of Denver, testified that in 1905
Orchard, in company with Haywood
and Pettibone several times, usually
in the evening.
The next witness was the insurance
solicitor, w. J. Vaughn, whom Orchard
said in his testimony was with him in
Canon City when he went there "to
get" Ex-Governor Peabody Vaughn
and Orchard later travelled together,
making considerable money writing
''hail insurance" for farmers.
In Canon City Vaughn said he
heard a clock ticking in the room, but
could not see any. He asked Orchard
about it, but got no information at the
time. He later had to move Orchards
grip and found it very heavy.
"In a joking way Orchard told me
he had bomb in the grip and was
going to put it under a man across the
street." said the witness.
In Canon City Orchard pointed out
Governor Peabody's residence to the
witness. On cross examination Vaughn
said he thought Orchard was "bug
house,
The next witness was George w.
Rich, a hotel keeper of Pocatello,
Idaho. Orchard had said that in 1903
Haywood told him he had sent Steve
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