The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1907-06-08

the casing to Pettibone in Denver and
loaded it in the basement Of Petit
bones store, the latter assisting him.
Thirty pounds Of giant powder were
used.
Orchard then told of planting a
| bomb in vacant lot which Judge
Eabbert crossed on his way home.
| We left a wire out of the bomb"
I>Orchard said, "and to this we intend
| ed fastening a pocketbook, the idea
| being that Judge Gabbert would pick
! up the purse and thus upset the bot
tie of sulphuric acid inside the bomb
AS Judge Gabbert started out the next
| morning | fode ahead of him on a
| bicycle and fastened the pocketbook
to the wire. rode off down town and
did not hear an explosion until an
hour afterward. A man named Wally
had picked up the pocketbook and
was killed. Judge Gabbert had passed
without noticing it, -.
! Orchard told the details of his move
ments almost day by day, stretching
his narrative out to great length. He
| said the next man selected for attack
was Sherman Bell, former adjutant
general of Colorado, who had been
instrumental in breaking up a strike
About this time Meyer returned to
Colorado and when he found out what
was going On ordered it stopped.
Meyer, Orchard declared, said he did
not want anything pulled off in Den
yer while he was there, as he would
| surely be arrested. He also said he
had some outside work which was
more important. Orchard had now
brought his story down to August,
| 1905. s---
| Tells OF Steunenberg Case.
The witness went back to June of
that year, however, to tell of another
! attempt on Judge Goddard. This was
made a few days after the failure to
get" Judge Gabbert. The bomb for
| Judge Goddard was planted in a grass
! plot near the gate leading into the
| front yard of his residence. The con-
! necticn with the bomb broke in some
manner without exploding it. Then
! for the first time the witness came
down to the 5teunenberg case
| Haywood suggested" he said, that
| we ought to get Ex-Governor Steunen-
! berg. He thought that if we got him
| after letting him go seven or eight
years and then went back to Pater-
| son, N. J., and wrote letters to Judge
Gabbert, Judge Goddard, Peabody,
Bell and the others, telling them they
| would set the same thing as Steunen-
berg, it would show them they were
not forgotten either and would have
a good effect. Meyer said it would be
better than killing them; that it would
be living death, for they would be-
confronted by the thought always of
somebody waiting for them.
| Haywood said he had sent several
men to Caldwell to do the Steunen--
berg job Among them were E-inister,
Art Ba seem, Mccarthy and Steve Ad-
! ans. Minister was a miner-a mem
Der Of the union. didn't know Nc
| Carthy. PettibOne and Haywood told
me that Steve Adams and Jack Simp-
| kins were in Idaho TO get rid Of some
! claim jumpers. They were then going
after Steunenberg. I went to CalifOr-
MIA after this conversation. When 1
| got back I talked with Adams, Hay
| wood and Pettibone. Adams said that
the money Haywood and Pettibone
had sent him to Idaho had miscarried
and he never got it. For this reason
he had not gone to Caldwell Adams
said he had got rid of the claim jump
ers all right" ..E
Makes Prompt Start for Idaho.
Orchard said he started for Idaho
two days after talking with Meyer and
the others on the subject. Pettibone
helped him get his trunk ready. He
! put the Peabody bomb prepared for
use at Canyon City in the trunk and
| took it along. Pettibone knew about
! this
Before starting for IDAHO" said
Orchard, Haywood gave me $24O in
cash. He had given me $50 before
this. I was to send to Pettibone for
any additional funds Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone were all present
when this arrangement was made. |
went from Denver to Salt Lake, spent
four or five days there and then came
on to Nampa, Ida, stopping at the
| Commercial hotel'
Orchard traced his movements for
some weeks in preparation for, the
murder of Steunenberg He told Of
consulting Fred Miller, an attorney, in
| Spokane, in connection with the loss
| of trunk. Miller is now one Of the
| attorneys for the defense. Orchard
arrived in Caldwell with Jack Simp-
kins in November, 1905.
Orchard said he and Simpllins plant
ed bomb at Steunenbergs residence
some time before the assassination.
This bomb failed to explode.
TO GUST OIL TRUST.