The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-29
SAYS ORCHARD WAS
SEEKING !; / ( | \ REVENGE |: ! |: 8 |:
Defense Produces Witnesses
Who Tell Of Mans
Threats.
WRECK OF vlNDICAT0R MINE
Denial That It Was Caused by.
Explosion Of Revolver Near
Powder.

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BOISE. IDAHO. June 2S.---Attorneys
for William D. Haywood. charged with
killing former Governor steunenberg.
Today continued to centre efforts or
the d!screditing Of Harry Orchard and
the establishment o.: their assertion
that Orchard killed seunenberg In
revenge for the loss Of his interest
In the Hercules mine. They directly
attacked the. Vindicator explosion with
the testimony OF witness that made
1t appear accidental rather than criml-
nal.
Thomas Wood. a non-unlontst, who
entered the v!ndicator mine after the
strike began. swore. that the night
before the explosion he placed a box
containing twen ty- Eve pounds Of giant
powder at the shaft of the eighth level.
He saw the powder the next morning
shortly after 10 o'clock, and a few
minutes later Superintendent McCor-
mick and Foreman Beck came to the
sixth level, where they were killed.
Wood swore that when he reached the
shaft. twenty minutes later. the powder
was gone, and 1t was reasonable
inference that Mccormick and Beck
| took 1t with them.
| Wood testified that no had seen a
revolver in Beck's pocket; that the
fragments Of only one revolver were
found in the sixth level. and that the
bodies of Mccormick and Beck were
blown apart, indicating that the ex-
plosion had occurred between them.
Orchard! said that he fixed revolver
with wire attachment. so that when
the safety bar was raised 1t wou uld send
a bullet in the giant powder he had
placed. One witness for tho State has
sworn that he later found wire at.
Il n h Patx tJ~o, :. hui
| said that he carefully examined the
safety: bar and found nothing attached
to 1t.
Heard Orchards Threats.
William Easterly and Copley botf
swore that they heard Orchard tell Of
the loss OF the Hercules Mine ant
i threaten to kill Steunenberg for 1t
On cross-examination, the State scored
Ilasterly. who received two letters ant
pne telephone message from Orchard
ON the eve Of the killing Of steunen
berg, and Copley for remaining quie
when they knew the crime might b,
:. committed.
Easterly contended that. he did no
/, know Steunenberg lived at Caldwell
/ and explained that although he knev
!, Thomas Hogan was Harry Orchard. h
, took no stops Immediately efter tn
: crime, except to consult counsel TO
the Federation. because he was not al
inforner. Copley asserted that he di
not take Orchard seriously when the.
! met In San Francisco, and Orchard toll
J him OF the Bradley crime. '
/ No Talk Of Violence.
! Easterly denied positively that h
. had ever talked with Harry Orchar
: as totthe Independence depot explo
3 sion. Orchard was at Cripple Cree,
q the latter part of 1908 and the first q
&|l9O4. "He mined atlittie." said tn
witness, "but he was quite a tlend a
card games, He seldom worked NOR
: than month at time
! Easterly asserted that during tn
I! Cripple Creek strike days thero wa
never any talk Of violence at tn
meetings OF the union, except by
! Twisting member. The visitor prove
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