The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-29
Defense Puts in Evidence TEND.
ding to Show VindicatOr Ex-
plosiOn Was Accident.
FURTHER TESTIMONY AS
TO THREATS OF ORCHARD
State Secures Admission That
No Attention Was Paid to
Threats He Made.

BOISE, Ida, June 2s.-The attot>
neys for William D. Haywood con.
tinue to center their efforts on tbs
discrediting of Harry Orchard and
the establishment of their claim that
Orchard killed Frank Steunenberg in
revenge for the loss Of his interests
in the Hercules mine. Today they di.
rectly attacked the Vindlcator ex.
plosion with the testimony of a wit
ness that made it appear accidental
rather than criminal.
Thomas Wood, q non-uniouisi, who
entered the Vindicator mine as
timberman after the strike began,
swore that the night before the ex.
plosion he placed A boz containing
twenty-five pounds of giant powder at
the shaft of the eighth level He saw
the powder the next morning shortly
after 10 clock, and a few minutes
later Superintendent Mccormick and
Foreman Beck came 10 the eighth level
They remained but a short time, and
left TO go TO the sixth level, where
when he reached the shaft, twenty
minutes later. the powder was goue,
and it is a reasonable inference that
Mccormick and Beck took it with
them
Bodies Blown Apart.
Wood testified that he had seen
revolver in Beck s pocket, that the
fragments of only one revolver were
found on the sixth level. and that
the bodies of Mccormick and Beck
were blown apart. indicating that the
explosion had occurred between them.
Orchard had said that he fired a re-
volver with a wire attachment, so that
when the safety.bar was raised IT would
send bullet in the giant powder be
had placed. One witness for the State
has sworn that he later found wire
attached TO the safety-har, but Wood,
who was among the first to reach the
sixth level after the explosion, said
that be carefully examined the safety
bar. and found nothing attached to 1t.
Wood gave his testimony in clear
thrilling story of the climb to safety
of the men cut of by the explosion
below the sixth level.
Severe Cross-EXamination.
William Easterly, who concluded his
testimony this morning, and D. c. Cop.
lev, who was called this afternoon,
both swore that they heard Orchard
tell OF the loss of the Hercules
mine and threaten to kill Steunenberg
for it. On cross-eXamnatiou the State
scored them both, and particularly
Easterly. who received two letters and
one telephone message from Orchard
on the eve of the killing of Steunen
berg, for remaining quiet when they
knew crime might be committed
Easterly $contended that he did not
know Steuneuberg lived at Caldwell,
and explained that although he knew
''Thomas Hogan was Harry Orchard.
he took no steps Immediately after the
crime, except to consult counsel for
the federation because be was not
an informer, and Copley asserted that
be did not take Orchard seriously
when they met IN San Francisco and
he told him of the Bradley crime.
There was further showing as 10
the work of the blood dbounds at indie
pendence station, which the defense
said went first TO the house of a
deputy sheriff, and then down the road
that Orchard took on his fight to Den.
yer and on 10 Wyoming, and denials
and reden,als from Easterly and Copley
of any form of misconduct on the part
of the members of the Western Fede.
ration Of Miners.
Dr. MCGEE Recalled.
Immediately after court convened this
the prosecution recalled 10 the
stand Dr. ]. T.. McGec of Wallace. Ida,
R witness for the defense whose cross
cxa mination had been deferred, Dr, Nc
Gee had testified that he Harry Or
chard In the Coeur d'Alenes in 1904. On
with a man named Cunningham.
Orchard claims To have given the Pea
body bomb TO man Of this Is nsme: The
describe Cunningham. The witness said
,e had seen the man but twice. and then
hey almost came to blows over a po
ltical discussion
Was Cunningham stout man2'' asked
Mr. Hawley of the state,
I'VE didn't get that far" replied the
witness.
did he have mustacheH''
81 don't know. but he had a gun.
Following DIT McCIee, w. II. Easterly
vas called to continnc his testimony. be-
run YESTERDAY
Eastcrly denied positively that he had
ver talked with Harry Orchard as TO the
depot explosion. Orchard
vas at Cripple Creek the latter part OF
sos and the first Of 1901.
..ue mined q Iitile' said the Miinesa.