The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-06-13

psadence to make an investigation
of conditions there and he told us
not to pull the thing on till they
went away. They went away sun
day morning and the same night we
placed the powder under the station
platform, attached the wire 10 IL and
then waited for train To come in,
Orchard then told OF the blowing
up OF the Independence depot, saying
he lii one OF the fuses himself.
Orchard said he was known as part
Of the time he was In San Francisco
by the name OF Barry Leaving Cali
fornia, Orchard returned To Denver,
wearing the uniform OF soldier.
tie said ne immedlately called Petit
bone on the teiep1{lnc
"rettiLoas sstst - laow 9tpsliey
was" coultpspd <xsrhsre m -
him Bradle} IN allss
left San FranciSco, buh N 49, re-
ported that he would io0 VII
sight, and probably be deaf The Ten
VI his life. rettibone said that was
better than Ii had killed him out. |
right-that Bradley would now he u /
living example.
Orchard said ne asked for money
and said he received si25 from Petit.
bone, with the assurance that he
could get more whenever he wanted
lit, Orchard said Haywood asked
him Ito 30 TO work on Judge Cab
bert" of the supreme court of Colo
RADIO.
"fle said Judge Gabbert, Orchard
went on, had been rendering deci.
sions against Meyer, who was trying
TO get out OF Telluride on habeas
corpus. | went TO Judge Gabbert's
house ON Sunday night with Steve
Adams and shotgun, but We did
not see the judge. Haywood also
wanted us TO try again on Gov. Tea.
, body, saying he didn't care how We
got rid OF him. AZ this time IL
seemed that Peabody was about 70 be
elected for another term. Steve
Adams, Billy Alderman and set
! to work and made bomb. We put
! II under the sidewalk at Thirteenth
i street and Grant avenue In Denver
! The governor walked along there
! every morning.
adams and ! watched for the gov
a ernor until he came out. Just as
, the governor walked over the place
where the bomb was laid, team
> came out Of the alley aud passed over
! the wire leading TO the bomb and
! we couldn't pull IL. !"
"Did you tryY"
"Nu. sir. After the wagon passed
and the governor had gone | went
and got the bomb. The streets here
were almost deserted. We threw Tn,
/. tomb In the river and reported u
pettibone that we had failed, III
y said IL was too bad.
e "pettibone and ! placed the bonl
In vacant lot which Judge Gabber
crossed on his way home We left
II wire out OF the bomb, and 10 this "
intended fastening n pocketbook, th
I, Idea being that Judge Gabbeft woul
~ pick up the purse, and thus opse
We the bottle OF sulphurio acid insid
OF the bomb. We tried one day TO fast
e. en- the purse, but Judge Gabbei
We came too fast and we had 10 leave
20 alone.
LAS Judge Gabbert started out IN
next morning rode ahead Of him O
te a bicycle and fastened the pocke
I'D book 10 the wire. | rode OF dow
en- town and did not hear an explosio
until an hour afterward. A ma
named Wally. had picked up u
nd purse and was killed. Judge Gabbel
lie. had passed without noticing IL, 4"
IT, Haywood suggested" he sal
I'D that we ought 70 get Es-Go
pie steunenberg. lie thought that II v
got him after letting him so seven !.
up eight years, and then went back
a Paterson, N. j., aud wrote letters
nus Judge Gabbeit. Judge, Goddar
n Peabody, Bell and Others telliI
D a them they would get the same thiI
ho an Steunenberg. u would show the
~. they were not forgotten either al
EN- would have good effect.
zen In telling of the dynsmiting Of |
Independence depot Orchard "a
Id. that the train brought non-uni
md men 10 Independence aud that
: a pounds Of powder we're used IN I
h a Job,
steve Adams and both pul
the string which upset several lott
Of sulphuric acid This acid |
hal over box OF giant caps and tn
An, set the powder off. The depot '
dav wrecked and from twelve To fonrt'
ID men we're killed.
I'VE tried TO locate GOV. Steun
berg at once said Orchard. 81
j. could not. We went out 10 bis n
"a deuce several times, and then FIN
-. saw bll 10 the Saratoga hoiel
80, SUNDAY evening. In the meanu
- We had liked up the bomb, ~ sii
kins and | took the bomb out at o
-, and set H. under the sidewalk viii
string stretched across the walk
a. IL a