Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-29
Defense CenterS Efforts on At
tempt to Prove He Killed
Steunenberg for Revenge for
Financial RevefSeS,
VINDICAT0R EXPLOSION
MAY HAVE BEEN ACCIDENT
Non-Union Miner SwearS to
Leaving a Box of Powder
Which Disappeared Just Be-
fore Mine Blew Up,

fore Mine Blew Up,
| iIiy Morning journal special Leased Wlre.i
Boise, idaho June 2S-Thc attor-
neys for William d. Haywood continue
to center their efforts on the discred-
iting of Harry Orchard and the es-
adjustment OF their claim that or
chatd killed Frank Steunenberg IN re-
vcnge for the loss of his interest IN
the Hercules mine. Today they de
rectly attacked the Vindicator eNplu-
sion with the testimony OF a witness
that made It appear accidental rather
! than criminal. Thomas Wood, a nom
| unionist, who entered the Vin.icatot
mine as a timberman after the strike
| began, sWore that the night before the
| explosion he placed a box containing
twenty i've pounds of giant powder al
| the SHAFT of the eighth level. He saw
the powder the next morning shortly
after 0 O'Clock and a few minutes la
| ter superintendent Nc,urmicb aha
Foreman Beck came to the eighth
| level They remained but a short
time and left TO go to the sixth level,
where they were Killed Wood swore
that when he reached the shaft
twenty minutes later, the powder was
gone and It is reasonable infer
enee that Mccormick and Beck toois
1t With them,
wood testified that he had seen a
revolver IN Beck's pocket that the
fragments of only one revolver We're
found ON the sixth level and that tho
bodies nt Mccormick and Beck were
bi0Wn spart, indicating thar the eN~f
plosion had occurred between them
orchard said that he ilXed n revolver
with a wire attachments that wher
the safety bar was raised II would
send a bullet in the giant powder he
had placed one witness for the state
has sworn that he later found wire
attached to the safety bar, but Wood
who was among the first 10 reach the
sixth level after the explosion said
that he carefully examined the safety
hur ana found nothing attached to a.
Wood gave his testimony IN clear
and fnrcihle manner and told thrill
ing story Of the climb to safety of the
men cut off by the explosion below
the sixth level
William EasteIlX, who concluded his
testimony this morning, and y G.
CopelY who was called this afternoon.
both sWore that they heard Orchard
tell of the loss OF the Hercules mine
and threaten 10 KIN Stounenberg for
II. ON cross-eXaminatiou, the state
scored them both, and particularly
Easterly. who received two letters and
NtitDnOut HltSNdEfS from Alffnblu ON
the eve Of the killing of Steuueuber~.
for remaining quiet when they knew
a crime might be committed EasterlY
Contendcd that he did not know
SteuDenberg lived at Caldwell and eN-
planned that although he knew
Thomas Hogan" was Harry Orchard,
he took no steps mm medlateN after the
crime except to consult counsel Cos
the federation. because he was not AN
informer. and Copeiey asserted that
he did not take Orchard seriousl"
when they met In San Francisco and
he told him Of the Bradley crime
There was a further showing as to the
work OF the bloodhounds at lndepend
,nce station which the defense sent
irst to the house of a deputy sheriff
md then went down the road that or
hard took in his flight 10 Denver aud
IN TO Wyoming, and denlals and redc-
llals from Fasterly and COpley of any
orm Of misconduct on the part of
he Western Federation Of Miners.
Immediately after court convened
his morning. the prosecution tr-caiied
Dr. L. McGee Of Wallace, Idaho.
he witness for the defense, whose
had been deferred.
McGee had testified thar he saw
orchard In Occur dAlenes in 1903.
)n one occasion he observed or
hard iu company with man named
Orchard claims to have given the
Peabody bomb 90 man Of this name.
'hr prosecution today wanted McGcc
% describe Cunningham The wit-
.pss said that he had seen the man
.ut twice and then had almost come
% blows with him over a political dis-
ussinn.
McGea could mot describe him aud
.heu asked ii ne had mustacho rc-
He'd "l dom know, hut L do know
han bee had a gun,
Following McGec, W b. Eastcrly
.as called to continue his testimony,
hitch was begun yesterday.
He positively denied that he ever
tlked with orchard as to the indie
endrnce depot explosion. Orchard
.as &c cripple Greek in the latter part
E 1903 ana first part OF 1909 The
illness said orchard mined a little.
ut was "a fiend at cards
EaStcrIy asserted that during the
ripple Creek strike days he never
card amy talk uf violence at the
lceungs VI his union eXccpt by
sitiug member The visitor proved
ftorWard TO- Doe secret service man
upIuYcd hv the mine owners.
The labor leaders always counseied
aacc. saving ihai any disorders which
.ieht occur would be attributed tu
be- union.
Easferly went over much of the
-nund covered yesterday in The iest-
.onv Of W. + Davis. He told OF the
liners meeting addressed hN Ffesi-
srf Mover and Secretary Haywood
which the two accused men ...'.l,..,i,.. urged
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