The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-20

the bottle of suIphuric acid Necessary
| to fire the bombs of his design. Mrs
Seward said she found a fish line
| running from screw eye on the dool
to the cork of a small bottle.
The witness said Orchard left hel
house early on the morning of the ex-
plosion at Mr.. Bradley's house. The
witness tried once to move Orchards
grip and found it very heavy.
Cross examined by Attorney Rich
ardson, Mrs. Seward said she had not
reported the finding of the lead shaw
inbs, etc, in Orchards room to any
other than her daughters.
Thought He Was an Inventor.
81 thought he was inventing some
thing" she declared. but I had no
idea what it was
Mrs. Seward says she hesitated a
long while before coming to Boise to
testify. The detectives came to see
her twelve or fifteen times about the
s'What did you get for coming
here?" demanded Attorney Richard
son.
"My expenses" replied the witness.
Riley Harris, young man who for
merly worked for the plumber, Roach,
who made the lead case which Or
bomb, took the stand and said he per-
sonaIly delivered the case to Orchard,
collecting $3.50 from him.
The state here received permission
of the court to file the names of sew
eral additional witnesses, among them
Justice Luther NJ. Goddard of the SUI
preme court of Colorado, and several
officials of the Postal Telegraph COM
pany.
Justice Goddard was then called to
the stand to testify to the finding of
the bomb which Orchard placed at the
front gate of his home at Twenty
Il Il
Denver. The bomb, a pine box, which
has been introduced in evidence, was
uncovered, Justice Goddard said, by
General Buckley Wells, former adju-
The bomb was dug up in February,
1906, following Orchards confession
Justice Goddard described the bomb
in detail. He said the bomb was taken
to the Pinkerton Office in Denver.
Justice Goddard told of the care ia
ken to preserve the bomb intact. He
identified the small acid bottle taken
from the deadly machine which had
been set for him but for some reason
failed to explode. The proposed assas-
sination of Justice Goddard had been
planned precisely as the killing of
former Governor Steunenberg was car
ried out, the string to upset the acid
bottle being attached to the gate.
The screw eye taken from the God
dard gate and sealed UP in an envelope
in the presence OF the justice was also
identified by the witness who opened
the envelope himself.
Goddard Opens an Envelope.
Next Justice Goddard opened a large
giant CAPS, removed from the bomb.
The caps, the witness said were found
just beneath the acid bottle. Over the
objection of the defense the caps were
admitted to evidence. The bomb con-
tanned 81 full sticks of hand powder
and three cut off sticks.
Hand powder" as it is called In
is nothing more or less than
quarters of an inch in diameter. made
to fit holes driven by hand drills.
Machine powder made to fit ma
chine driven holes in three-Quarters
inches in diameter.
Justice Goddard identified the covers
of two sticks OF the powder removed
from the bomb and they, too, were adj
mitted in evidence.
Justice Goddard was cross-examined
by Mr.. barrow of the defense. He said
he was first elected to the bench by
the Democrats and POpulistS in 1892,
serving eight years.
Mr. Darrow inquired at some length
as to the contests between Peabody
and Adams as to the governorship and
as between two sets of city and county
officers in Denver. Justice Goddard
said he was appointed the night of the
conference at which it was decided that
Adams should take the governors chair
the next day.
Mr. barrow devoted his inquiry to
bringing out the fact that there was
feeling IN Denver and
Colorado over decisions by
the supreme court in the election cases.
There was some pretty harsh talk
bout the court, wasn't there. and the
editor of one paper was arrested and
fined 81 000?'' asked Mr.. Darrow.
Yes, sir" said Judge Goddard.
The cross-examination then reverted |
to the finding of the bomb. He said |
hat when he first received Information |
as to the matter he examined the gate |
and found the rusty screweye. The |
bomb was dug up February II, 1906.
''St. Valentines day?'' commented the |
attorney.
Eyes, sir. thought it was a Valen-
Inc" replied the witness.
Judge Goddard said the bomb was |
sealed up as whole on February 16. |
1906 and left in the Pinkerton office
lntil May %, when it was taken into
he suburbs and dismantlcd all but /
Tree sticks of dynamite being explod- /
ID. The red sealingwax with which
he bomb was sealed, was obtained at
lie Pinkerton's office. This concluded
he cross-examination and the court
adjourned until today.