Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-06-15
PEABODY BOMB IS
OBJECT Of INTEREST
Governor and His Daughter TeS-
tify to Having Seen Orchard
Hanging Round Their Home
at Canon City During
Year 1904.

Boise, Idaho, June 16.-When the
Haywood trial was resumed today,
Judge Wood permitted Detective j..
T. Pender, over the protest of the
defense, to testify as to the contents
of a telegram sent to Haywood by
Steve Adams, after the latter's arrest
at ogden.
Pender said that the telegram read,
Il min trouble, send me S15 at
once"
]. C. Houston, assistant cashier o>
the First National bank, of Denver,
identified Haywood's signature on five
drafts which were marked for identi-
fication.
The drafts were in favor of L. j.
Simpkins. Another draft introduced
was signed James Kirwan, assistant
secretary treasurer"
Richardson objected to the intro
duction of these drafts because they
were immaterial and have no con-
nection with the murder of Steunen-
berg.
Signatures Identified.
After an argument, Judge Wood
ruled that on the state showing the
connection between Simpkins and the
defendant, he would admit the drafts
as evidence.
Twenty-one other drafts were pre-
sented and the signatures identified.
but they were not introduced as evil
dence.
On cross examination. Houston said
that thousands of drafts were sent
out in a year by Haywood and his as
sistant, Kirwan.
@r Naylor ON Stand.
Major II. A. Naylor, of Victor.
Guard of Colorado at the time of the
Vinditator explosion, was the next
witness.
He identified portions of pistol
and wire found by him in the mine
after the explosion.
They are believed to be parts OF
the pistol and wire, by means OF
which, according to Orchard, the ex-
plosion was caused.
The fragments were admitted as
evidence over the objection of the
defense.
Charges Soldiers With Crime.
In the cross examination of Naylor,
Attorney Richardson insinuated that
the defense would try to show that
the Vindicator owners were behind in
the payment of their assessment TO
the Mine owners association, and
that the soldiers were employed to
create disturbances, and destroy
property, which acts the association
laid to the door of the Western Fed
Grafton.
No Anlmosity Toward Miners.
Naylor said that he knew nothing
of arrears due from Vindicator mine,
and denied having any animosity
against the members of the miners
union.
He declared that he had nothing
to do with the actual deportation OF
union miners from Cripple Creek.
10 ~ n II
lor had not attended a meeting with
Orchard and others at Victor on the
evening of June 5, 1904, and inform
ed the militia to be ready as some
thing was going to happen. Naylor
denied this statement.
Peabody Bomb.
The next act OF the prosecution was
to prove the finding of the Peabody
bomb, which Orchard said he had
taken from Denver to Wallace. Hf
gave the bomb, he said, to a man
named Cunningham, who wanted to
blow up a "scab" boarding house,
and told him If he did not use IT,
to throw it into the river.
w. II. Schulenberg, formerly &
fireman at Wallace, today testified
that he found the bomb while cut
ting ice on the river in front of the
Wallace fire station.
He gave the bomb to Sheriff Angus
Sutherland.
Sutherland told of unloading the
bomb, which was packed with twenty
pounds of giant powder. The lead
casing Of the bomb was identified by
Schulenberg and Sutherland.
Governor a Spectator.
Governor Peabody, his wife and
daughter, were among the interested
spectators when the bomb was prot
duced.
motion by the defense to strike
out all the testimony as TO the bomb
as immaterial was denied
Charles T. Roach, a plumber, for
merly of Denver, identified the lead
casing as having been made by him
on an order in May, 1905.
The purchaser, he said, told him IL
was to plant a cactus in. The plum
ber said that he could not identify
the man who ordered the casing.
Miss Cora Peabody testified TO see
ing two men almost at her carriage
door, one night in 1904, when she
and her mother and sister returned
from the theatre. She watched the
men as they ran away.
COrrobOratc Orchard.
Miss Peabody's testimony CorrobOr-
ated Orchards testimony that he and
his accOmplice waited at PeabOdy's
house on that night 90 shoot the gov
ernor but he did not come home
with the ladies'
Governor Peabody testified that he
saw Orchard on the street in Canon
('itV after a and arY,flyy