The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-07-04

s5hFEuidu Dell tue sUiuicts were taken
TO the place and the men we're fired
upon--one being killed and others In
jured. All were arrested and taken
back to the district and put In the
bull pen.
Darrow stated the defense would
prove that before Orchard left Den
yer for Cheyenne he placed consid-
cradle sum of money In pettibone' s
keeping, saying he would send for IL
from time TO time.
Mr.. barrow continued to narrate
to the jury story OF the conditions
prevailing In the Cripple Creek dis
trict during the period OF martial
law, following the Independence de-
pot explosion. He told how Meyer
bad been arrested at Ouray. on a
charge of desecrating the American
nag, and had then been held In jail
las matter Of security
Meyer was charged with the muir
der Of the two men killed In the riot
at Independence, the riot which oc-
Cured while he was In the bull. pen
presided over by Buckley Wells,r he
said.
"Orchard asked Pettibone to keep
a sum of money for him, saying he
would write to him from time to
time. Pettibone had big safe where
he 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 Orchard purchased a camp
ing outfit, tent, fishing rods, etc."
AFTER Orchard left Cheyenne he
did not come back to Denver, so far
as anyone connected with this case
knows. But In the meantime IL was
claimed in Denver that the..Western
Federation OF Miners had caused the
death OF Lyle Gregory. Our evidence
will show you that the federation
had no grievance Whatever against
Gregory. and knew nothing about
him. Gregory had been deputy In
the coal fields, in which the organi.
zation beaded by John Mitchell alone
was interested.
"Orchard said when he left Denver
that he would write to Pettibone.
He did write, and got replies. They
used assumed names, as did the fugi-
tiyes in that mining country. Or.
chard eventually turned up In San
Francisco, but he never blew up any
house there. That story about the
Bradley house was another OF Or
chard's pipe dreams, thrown In to
n.ake him the greatest criminal Of
the age.
"We have deposition from Mr..
Bradley in which he says the house
was wrecked by gas that he smeiled
gas and that when be lighted his
cigar the explosion occurred. Why,
IL the bomb this man Orchard has
described had exploded as he said 1t
did, you could not have found a
square inch of Bradley anyw here and
not stick OF timber OF the house.
Orchard never blew up the Bradley
house, and | tell you this without
having any special interest In de-
Tending Harry Orchard.
'ln San Francisco, when Orchard
was there, ID. g. Copley was deliver
Ing illustrated lectures on the Cripple
Creek strike. Orchard went TO the
lecture one night and asked Copley
II he bad heard OF the explosion at
Bradleys; that Bradley had got what
he deserved: that he had been in the
Occur d'Al enes and was partly re.
sponsible for the militia being called
into the district
"Orchard said there was another
of Bradley's kind. 1t was Gov.
Steunenberg. If II had not been for
him, said Orchard, I'd be rich
man today aud I'll kill him II 1t is
the last act OF my life.
"We will prove Orchards threats
against Steunenberg. We will prove
that he said Steunenberg made him
pauper instead OF q millionaire,
not by Copley alone, but by at least
twelve men and women. and they
won't all be members OF the Western
Federation Of Miners either. We
will produce cause for Orchards act
toward SteuneDberg and we feel we
cannot fail to convince you -
"Orchard wrote to Pettibope while
In San Francisco and wrote that
some Of his money be sent TO him.
1t was sent In the name Of j. Wolf,
clerk in Pettibone's store. or.
cbard telegraphed twice to Pettibone
for money and gave full instruction.
as to how IL should be sent, In wha,
name and everything else. The
money was sent bin as he requested
During all this time Peabody
Goddard, and Gabbert, all living ir
Denver, never lifted a hand against
them and not one Of these men
Haywood, Meyer or Pettibone-eyef
spoke TO Orchard about Peabody
Goddard OF 6sbbert, who are toda,
safe and sound-safe, at least,