Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-20

well, asked to be relieved and
Frank Wyman was appointed to de-
fend the prisoner. Witnesses have
testified to the fact that the milk
at the Bradley home in San Fran
ciso had been poisoned with strych-
nine; that a few days later the
front Of the building was blown up.
Postoffice officials of San Francisco
testified to having received a reg
l istered letter for man by the
name of Dempsey from Wolfe of
Denver, which Orchard SAID he re-
ceived from Pettibone under the
names given. ClaIe ence EIarrah,
the cage man in the Vindicator
mine in 1908, corroborated Or
chard's story of shooting at the cage
man while he was in the mine for
the purpose of exploding the powder
stored there. Ogden officials told
of the arrest of Adams and a COM
panion in that city and of their re-
lease after Adams had telegraphed
to Haywood for money. Charles
E. Baldwin, a caterers assistant
of Denver, testified of the events
surrounding the murder of Lyte
Gregory. G. H. Hacxett of Boise
produced the telegram sent from
Spokane to Caldwell by Attorney
Miller to Orchard. Governor Pea
body and his daughter, Miss Cora
Peabody testified to the facts which
were within their kno Wedge to
which Orchard testified on direct
examination. Charles T. Roach,
the Denver plumber who made the
lead covering for the Peabody bomb,
identified the one exhibited by the
state; Vaughn told of his having
discovered it in the suit case of Or
chard at Canyon City; Scholenberg,
Dunn and Sutherland of Wallace
told of its being found in Wallace
where Orchard said he had taken it.
A number of bank drafts were pro-
duced showing that money had been
sent from Denver TO Simplxins.
Major H. A. Naylor of Victor,
Colo, corroborated Orchard on a
number of facts about the blow
ing up of the independence depot
and the explosion in the Vindica-
tor mine. Raymond a, special po-
liceman told of the intimate rela-
itons Of Orchard, Haywood and
Pettibone. J.W Rich Of Salt Lake
recognized in Steve Adams a man
who registered at the Tupper
House in Pocatello as ]. Ward.
Haywood had told Orchard that he
had sent Adams to Pocatello to
throw. some 'Pettibone dope into a
car of non-unIon miners while they
were passing through there. On
Tuesday a number of letters were
introduced. Some of them from
Orchard to his wife and some from
Haywood and Pettibone to Mr.. and
Mrs. Orchard. Orchard was re-
called to identify these letters. The
telegram Orchard received soon af-
ter he was placed in Jail at Cald-
we'll from Attorney Miller of Spok-
ane was placed in evidence. Or
chard testified that the officers of
the Western Federation of Miners
had told him not to write or wire
them when he got into trouble but
that they would look after him and
sent an attorney to him if he need
ed one.
Four letters were introduced
"Adv1ocLoxr hxr d.
Hawkins, who is Richardson
law partner, ]. c. Sullivan, and
Henry Cohen, Denver attorney,
recommending Orchard to the man
ager of the insurance company
which Orchard was agent for
while watching for an oportunity
to kill Peabody. Judge Luther M.
Goddard of the Colorado supreme
court was called. After he learned
of the confession of Orchard in re-
gard to the planting of the bomb at
his gate, he with General Wells
dug it up. They found the scew-
eye in the gate as described by Or
chard; they then dug up box about
eighteen inches long; the top of
the box was three inches below the
ground and was covered with bur-
lap. They found a rusted wire at
tached to a partly drawn cork in
small vial on the top of the box.
There were 40 sticks of giant powd-
er and a dozen caps in the box
Later they took the powder out of
Denver a little way and exploded 81
sticks of it. All of the rest of
the things found we're introduced
in evidence and identified by
Judge Goddard.
The prosecution offered in ev-
idence a large number of articles
published in the Miners Magazine,
the official organ of the Western
Federation. Some of these were
signed by Haywood. They were
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