The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

find that at the sixth level the ladders
/ had been broken by the force of the
exploding dynamite.
During his cross-examination by Sen
ator Borah, Wood identified the pieces
| of the revolver which the prosecution
introduced in evidence as a verification
that in leaving the eighth level, when
he noticed the disappearance of the
| dynamite there was great confusion
| TT was a matter of life and death
with which you were concerned, was
it?'' asked Senator Borah.
Yes. SIR said Wood, Il wanted
home, that is ALL"
| Wood said he searched carefully ev-
| erywhere around the scene of the ex-
pIosion but found nothing of import
| snce except the fragments of the revolt
| yer.
You looked very carefully?" asked
| Senator Borah.
sYes, sir, 1 did and I looked for the
! internal machine they talk about, but
| did not find it,
J. c. Copley, now a matchmaker and
| jeweler at Nina. New. formerly miner
\ and leaser at Independence. Col, fol-
| lowed Wood on the stand. Copley said
continued a member up to about a
| year ago. For two years he was a
/ member of the executive board. Cop
| ley organized the Colorado City Smelt-
ermen's union 1t was in connection
! with this union that the labor troubles
| in Colorado started.
The Responsible Party.
You are the responsible party are
you?" asked Darrow.
I've been accused of it, said Cop
ley.
The witness told of initiating into
the union a man named Crane, who
became recording secretary before 1T
was discovered that he was detective.
AS a member of the executive board
Copley said he had quite a good deal
to do with the Cripple Creek strike
The men were always counselled, he
declared, to maintain peace and order.
Copley said he was not in the district
at the time of the Vindicator mine ex-
plosion, November 81, 1908. He re-
diately arrested and held in the bull
pen several days. He was released to
go to Georgetown. Col, to stand trial
before jury for alleged conspiracy to
Sun and Moon mine, Idaho Springs,
Col. He was acquitted of the charge.
Copley met Orchard at Cripple
Creek in November, 1903. He did not
see him in Denver following the indie
pendence explosion. He met Orchard,
Davis and Neville in Pat Moran's sa-
loon in Cheyenne while enroute to
Omaha. Copley said he left Denver on
the advice OF an old friend, who said
the leaders of the federation were
about to be arrested
Copley eventually, at the suggestion
of Haywood, made a tour of the west,
giving an illustrated lecture on Cripple
Creek crueltieS," showing conditions
in the district during military rule.
At a lecture in San Francisco Copley
said he saw Orchard. He had no idea
what he was up to this time. Orchard
came to see him four or five dayS lat
er and asked him what he thought of
the Bradley affair, saying Bradley was
one of the Occur D'Alene gang, who
had got what was coming to him.
He told me that Governor Steun- |
RnhQTey cyaf ha -
tinued Copley.
Grudge Against Steunenberg.
He said he once owned an interest |
in the Hercules mine and seemed to
have grudge against Steunenberg. |
orchard told me he was making liv- |
ing gambling with the soldiers at the !
Preside. Copley said Orchard, asked |
him If he thought it a feasible plan to /
drill into the edges of $40 pieces, ex-
tract some Filings and fill in the holes |
with base metal. The witness advised |
him against any such plan, saying he !
could only make wages out of it and |
would eventually land in the peniten-
tiary. Copley gave Orchard permits |
sion to go 20 his room and change his |
clothes-to don the soldiers uniform |
in which Orchard went back to DEN |
yer.
Cross examined by Senator Borah.
threats made by Orchard even in view i
of the fact that Bradley had been |
blown up, that Orchard had proposed ,
shaving gold coins and was a bout to
disguise himself in soldiers clothes
81 thought it was one of those idle
threats such as we hear daily declar-
ed Copley.
"All these things didn't arouse yOur
suspicions?"
mo. sir. 1 had no idea Orchard
had anything to do with the Bradley
affair. The only criminal thought
knew of was his preparation to mutt
late coin"
did you ask him why he did not
change his clothes in his own room ?"
mo, sir. He said he wanted to get
back to Denver and unless he was dis
guised he feared arrest for being con-
nected with the strike"
Did it occur to you that he was
Disgusting himself to get out of San
mo, sir. gave no thought to
Copley said he never say Pat Moran
at any place but his saloon in Chey-
How did you happen to go to Mo-
rams saloon?'
1T was the first one I struck going
up the street from the depot" replied
the witness amid laughter
"Who was the old friend who told
you you had better leave Denver?"
"A member of the police and fire
board"
What was his name?"
well 1t didn't come direct from
him to me, it came through a third
party, whose name 1 have forgotten"
But who was the original friend?"
''T S. Kemp"
did Orchard say anything to you
in San Francisco about Pettibone be-
ing his banker?"
''No."
Taking up the rediroNt examination
Darrow asked:
Did Orchard tell you he had blown
up the Bradley house?"
oil 10 in Ia
had had something to do with it, but
didn't take any stock in the man and
did not believe he had
Court here adjourned until this