The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25

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were broken into and footed He said
the militia some time later found that
; one hundred of the deported men were
; pecting. Under General Bell the SOL
diers were taken to the place and the
men we're fired upon. one being klIleo
and other injured. All were arrested
and taken back to the district and put
into bull pen.
A recess was then taken, Mr.. Oar
row having about half completed his
speech.
Ethel Barrymore, the actress. was
among the spectators at the trial dur
ing the afternoon session as were also
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the bureau OF
DIETRICH of the federal court.
Mr.. barrow resuming his speech
after the recess continued to narrate
to the jury a story of the conditions
prevailing in the Cripple Creek district
during the period of martial law, foI-
lowing the Independence depot explo-
sion. He told how Meyer had hrst
been arrested at Ouray on a charge OF
| Decorating the American nag ana
then was held in custody as matter
of military necessity"
Meyer also was charged with the
murder of the two men killed IN tne
| had occurred while he was In the Dull
pen presided over by Bulkely Wells
Deportation of Miners.
| Mr.. Darrow told of the deportation
/
| Creek and the posting of notices that
no man should be allowed to work IN
! the district without first renounclns
| allegiance to the union and securing
| permit from the Mine owners dssocio
ton.
The attorney dwelt for sometime up
! on the Cripple Creek troubles, SAVING
that most of the men VINO were urt toe,r
quarters of the west found 1t necessary
i to change their names. Mr. Darro"
| then came back to Orchard.
| "Along with Johnny Neville and tne
Neville boy. Orchard came to Denver,
after the Independence depot a1 9La
| orchard had considerable money from
the burning of Neville's saloon; ne ne
Law around Denver gambling anu sol
acquainted with Pettibone. -
! .sHe told Pettibone he was a fugitive
from Cripple Creek and wanted TO leave
the state. 49, %
lenses theory as to the transmission OF
money from Pettibone to Orcharo- ne
said: u 1,oor a
sum of money for him. saying he would
write him from time to time: Pettipone
had a big safe where ne KEPT ehin .Ss
for many persons. Orcharq gave NH
the money to put away He also gave
him a Masonic charm and his member.
shin card in the Western Federatlon OF
Miners and other trinkets. Fetlpone
went out and helped Orcharo 10 o t
orchard went to Cheyenne with tne
two Nevi!les. At Cheyenne ne loaIed
about Pat Morans saloon. He never
asked Moran to go to Pettibone and get
him some money anu MoiaH iANe
went to Pettibone
Death of Gregory.
after Orchard disappeared from
C,hevenne he did not come back to Den
Yer that year so far as any persons
connected with the case KNOWS bul
in the meantime 1t has claimed in Den
yer the Western Federation had caused
the death of Lyle Gregory our eN-
derce will show that the federation hao
no grievance whatever against Gregory
and knew nothing about him.. gregory
had been deputy In the coal Iel1 ISL, III |
which the organization headed by Jonn
Mitchell alone was interested. Orcharo
said when he left Denver that ne WouIo
write to Pettibone. He did so ana got
did ali the fugitives from the mining
country Orchard eventually turned up
in San Francisco, but he never blew
up any house there. z,,.
house was another of Orchards pipe
dreams thrown in to make MIN tne
greatest criminal of the age. We have
a deposition from Mr. Bradley In wn1ch |
he saws the house was wrecked by gas; |
that he smelled the gas and that when |
he lighted his cigar the explosion &C
CURED. oo,a
has described had exploded as he said |
it did, you could not have found a |
square inch of Bradley anywhere ana
not stick of timber of the house Or
chard never blew up the Bradley |
house. and 1 tell you this without hav-
ing any special interest in Harry Or
chard.
Orchard Threatened Steunenberg.
In San Francisco when orchard was
there D C. Copely was delivering illus
trated lectures on the Cripple Creek
or-6
one night and asked Copely If he had
heard of the explosion at Bradley's
house Copely said he had and Orchard
then said that Bradley had got what
he deserved-that he had been in the
Couer d'Alenes and was partly RESPONSE
BILE for the militia being called into the
district.
Rradley's kind-that Governor Steun-
berg. If it hadn't been for him, said
Orchard, I'd be a rich man today, and
I'll kill him if it is the last act of my
life
against Steunenberg, prove that he said
Steunenberg made him a pauper in
stead of a millionaire, not by Copley
alone, but by no less than twelve men
and women, and they won't all be mem
bers of the Western Federation of Min
ers. either We will establish a cause
for Orchards act against Steunenberg
and we feel we cannot fail to convince
you.
orchard wrote to Pettibone while in
san Francisco and asked that some of
his money be sent him. 1t was sent in
the name of ]. Wolff. a clerk in Petit
bones store. Orchard telegraphed
twice to Pettibone for money and gave
full directions to how it should be
sent, in what name, and everything
else The money was sent him as re-
quested.
During all this time Peabody. God
dard and Gabbert were all living in
Denver. Not one of these men had