The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-21
GODDARD BOMB IN COURT
AS EVIDENCE AFTER
FIGHT BY DEFENSE.
COLORADO JvRlsT TEsrlFIEs

Aieo Prosecution In Building Up Proof
OF Conspiracy-Denuncia Ar.
tIeles Published In Miners Magazine
win Be Admitted In Evidence.
Boise, Ida, June 2 The state
made dramatic producing and proof
Of the Goddard bomb and beside of.
ferlng further contributions of the
testimony OF Harry Orchard against
William ID. Haywood, secured "A ruling
under which II number of the denun
riatory articles published In the Min.
ers Magazine, Official organ of the
Western feueration of Miners, viii be
admitted in evidence.
TO Justice Luther NJ Goddard him
self tell the task OF telling the story
of the finding and preservation for use
as evidence OF the bomb with which
Orchard tried to Kill him. The vet
eran Colorado jurist testified that the
first information that he received
about the bomb came to him from or.
Chards confession, which was shown
to him at Denver on Feb 10, 1906, by
Detective Mcfarland He at once re-
turaed to his home and I'm his gate
discovered the screw.cye which or.
chard said he placed there. II was
rusted and corroded by ten months
exposure. The witness said he exam
ined the ground outside the gate
where Orchard said he placed the
bomb and found slight depression,
with the soil packed very hard around
1t.
The bomb was dug up the next day
by General Bulkeley Wells, who used
pocket knife to cut the soil away
and raise the pine box containing the
bomb. There was a small phial on
top of the box and attached to the
rubber cork of the phial was a piece
of rusted wire.
Bomb Saved as Evidence.
The bomb and its attachments were
at once taken to the Office of the
Pinkerton detective agency and care
fully sealed in wrappers and envelopes
that were signed by half dozen wit
nesses, including Justice Goddard, and
after that they were placed in vault,
to the door of which five seals, includ-
ing that of notary public, were at
tached. There they rested until the
following May %, when, believing the
Haywood case was to come to trial,
they were removed In the presence OF
the same witnesses and all save three
of the forty sticks of giant powder
contained in the bomb were exploded.
The explosions occurred in the pres
ence of the witnesses at a point in
the suburbs of Denver, and of the
bomb itself, twelve giant caps and
two wrappers torn from sticks of giant
powder were saved as evidence.
Senator Borah produced the several
packets as they were originally sealed
and, commencing with the phial
passed them to Justice Goddard, who
broke the seals and identified the ar
ticles. After the phial came the little
screw-eye, then the dozen giant caps
and last the powder wrapper Attor-
neys Richardson and Darrow, for the
defense, objected to all the evidence
and all the exhibits, and moved to
strike out everything but the court
ruled against them all along the line.
Mrs. Seward, at whose home in San
Francisco Harry Orchard lived during
part of the time he was conducting his
operations against Fred Bradley, gave
testimony strongly corroborative OF
Orchards account Of his acts and ex'
periences in San Francisco. Beside
confirming Orchards recital ,as to
time. movements and locations. she
testified that she found lead and wood
shavings in Orchards room and a
screw-eye string and bottle attached
to the closet door where Orchard had
been experimenting r-.t",-nt-.
Letters Of Recommendation.
John l. Stearns, agent at Denver
for the Mutual Life Insurance compa-
ny, confirmed the story Orchard told
about securing employment as so,
licitor for the company before he went
to Canyon City to kill former Governor
Peabody and produced letters Of
recommendation which Orchard fur
nished in response 10 MS request one
of the letters was from George Petit.
bone, co-defendant OF Haywood, and
It made jocular reference TO the fact
that Stearns was taking many agents
from him and requested in future,
when any of his agents applied for
work they be put out on the sidewalk.
The defense objected TO the admission
OF the letters. but the court permitted
their. Introduction as evidence.
Riley Harris, a young man who
worked for Roach, the plumber who
made the lead casing for the Peabody |
bomb, told of the call OF Harry Or
chard at Roach's shop in Denver in
May, 1905, OF the making of the cas-
Ing and OF the delivery Of the article to |