The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
WITNESS AFTER WITNESS SAYS
BRADLEY HOUSE WRECKED BY GAS

was louder than most gas explosions he
had heard
Joseph Vincent De La Veaga. an attor-
ney Of San Francisco who occupied the
apartment directly under the BTadleys,
told in his deposition Of having smelled
gas in the vestibuIe of the house six or
seven days prior to the explosion.
Newspaper Man on Stand.
After recess the defense asked TO be al
lowed to place Alvah A. Swain of Dem
Yer on the stand because of the desire
of the witness to return home. Swain is
in the employ Of a newspaper and Mt
barrow stated the object of calling him
was to show that the Pinkerton Detective
agency, through James Mcfarland in
furtherance of the conspiracy between the
Mine Owners association and the Pin
kertons, had endeavored to procure false
evidence against the Western Federation
of Miners. Judge Wood sustained an OBJ
lection and the witness was not allowed
TO testify at this time.
swain said he was the Denver CORE
spOndent of Pueblo paper Some time in
the fall of last year James MCFARLAND
came to his office in regard to his giving
testimony in the case of the state OF
Idaho against Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone.
1t was here that Senator Borah objected
to this testimony on the ground that there
was no foundation.
1T is a part Of the conspiracy" de-
clared MIR. barrow. which we expect to
snow against the BlnkeTTOnS and mine
Owners-part of the conspiracy to get
these men out of the way and to manu-
facture false evidence against them"
In the present state of the case said
Judge Wood, the court Will have to sus-
tain this objection
Then the witness will have to wait I'M
til after MCFARLAND testifies." commented
DaTrOW.
Allen f. Gill of Spokane. Wash. former
city engineer of Spokane and once master
mechanic of the Tiger and Poorman's
mine in the Occur d'Alene district of
Idaho. Gill said that in March. 1899. Or
chard had offered to sell to him (GilD in
terest in the Hercules mine. The witness
met Orchard and Jack Simpkins in Spo-
kane in 1905 and talked with them on the
street about the Hercules mine
Threats Against Steunenberg.
81 told Orchard that my wife and my
self felt unfortunate that he had never
come around to close up that DEAL said
the witness. Orchard replied that he was
hard up at the time he Offered his inter
est for sale, but that he afterward sold
out his wood business and had gone TO
work In the mines. He said that he ought
60 have his pockets bulging with money
and would have had IL and would have
been able to erect blocks of buildings as
his partners were doing II that
Steunenberg had not driven him out of
the country. He also spoke of Gardener
the man 10 whom he sold his interest in
the mine. and said '-- Dago' was hav-
ing good time spending the money that
ought to be his"
Cross-eXs mined by Senator Borah, Gill
said Simpkins was party to this inter
view; he knew both Orchard and Simpkins
quite well. This ended the taking of tes-
timony for the day and Attorney Darrow
to work ouce more on the San Francisco
dispositions.
One of the most important dispositions
read during the afternoon was that of
Peter w Doyle, a foreman of carpenters
who had charge of the repairs following
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