The San Francisco call., 1907-06-07

said that he had done business for
Hogan before.
THE reference couldn't be better"
said Stearns as he gave the contract
The Canyon City job was a bomb
plant. Orchard acquainted himself
with Peabodys habit of life in his
home by watching from the window OF
his room in Mrs. Lizzie Adams house.
FATE INTERvENES AGAIN
Then Orchard returned to Denver and
reported progress. He and Pettibone
gathered up SO pounds of dynamite
that they had cached at Max Malich's
saloon, and Orchard made a bomb out
of a lead bucket that he got a plumber
to make for him the plea that it
was to hold a cactus plant. With 80
pounds of giant powder in this con-
trivance in his grip he sauntered back
to Canyon City only to find that Pea
body had begun some alterations in
his house and no longer sat beside the
window. on the ledge Of which the
bomb was to have been placed to be ex-
ploded by clockwork. Leaving the
bomb in Mrs. Adams closet. Orchard
went off writing insurance with Billy
Vaughn and presently got back to Dem
yer.
Pettibone cussed again. He wanted
something pulled off before the con-
vention to make showing for the
money that had been spent on Orchard
and Adams. So they planted a new
bomb for Judge Gabbert. That was
the one for which their devilish inge-
nuity had planned the pocketbook lure.
Pettibone went off to the convention
and Orchard stayed to murder the
judge. Fate again interfered. Gabbert
started on the fatal path, turned back
and went another way, arousing the
laughter OF Goddard at their offices by
telling of his queer premonition. And
while they were laughing over it
Marion VALLEY, consulting engineer,
saw the pocketbook, picked 1t up and
was blown to pieces in an explosion
that shook the capitol where the two
judges were sitting. Pettibone and
Haywood came back from the conven-
ton and were sorry that IAN innocent
man had been killed instead Of Gabbert.
BELLS LIFE SOUGHT
Sherman Bell, adjutant general was
the next subject operated on. They
bought q rig and Pettibone and Orchard
drove out night after night to get a
chance at Bell at his home. But they
had not succeeded when Meyer came
back and learned what they were up to.
There had been some variation from the
visits to Bells house by the planting OF
a bomb at the gate of Judge Goddard.
Orchard had now acquired skill in the
bomb profession and he made this one
carefully. and he arranged it just as he
subsequently fixed the one that killed
Steunenberg.
The murderer walked by the house
In the morning just before the judge
was due to leave, dropped his news
paper accidentally at the gate. and as
"a fn nj m hooked tho
bomb string to the screweye in the
gate and hurried away. Nothing hap
pened, however, and when he went back
some time afterward to see what was
the matter he found that the exploding
apparatus had failed, the sulphuric acid
having leaked out. After Orchard con-
fessed. Bulkley Wells dug UP that bomb
and exploded 1t.
"GET sTEUNENBERG NEXT
On Meyers return there was a con-
ference at his Office. Orchard went there
at once and Meyer forbade further ope-
rations in Denver. He said that Johnny
Neville knew too much about the 1nde-
pendence depot business and had de-
manded 5000 to keep still, so he had to
be killed. That was the thing for Or
chard to get busy about next. Petit
bone came in and called Haywood from
his office. There was a general discus
sion of plans and Haywood said he
wanted Steunenberg.
He asked if I could not get Neville
and Steunenberg on one trip" said Or
chard, "and ] said I thought I might.
He said that he had sent three or four
men after Steunenberg, but they had all
failed. He thought that if we could
get Steunenberg after the seven or
eight years that he had escaped. and
then go back to Paterson, N. j., and
send letters to the other men saying
they would get the same as Steunen-
berg, it would be better job than kill
ing them, for 1T would be living death
for them. Meyer said 1t would be a
good thing to scare the men who had
been opposing the federation. Haywood
described Steunenberg and said he did a
sheep business and drove into the coun-
try, SO that it would be easy to get him.
STEVE ADAMS HAD FAILED
s'Pettibone, though, was against it.
He thought it would be too dangerous
in little town like Caldwell. Haywood
said he had sent Steve Adams after
Steunenberg. also, but there. had been
miXup about money. He had sent it
to Ed Boyce to give 1t to Jack Simp-
kins for Steve, but Boyce did not de-
liver it,
The result of this conference was
tIfdl OfcndTQ agreed TO XIII Steunen-
berg, and after going to Canyon City
and recovering the bomb that he had
left in Mrs. Adams closet he set out
for Idaho~with the bomb in his trunk.
He went up to Portland and spent a
few days at the exposition, then to Sc
attic for week to look up that ranch
where he was going to hide out" after
the murder. Then he went to Wallace
and met Jack Simpkins.
They took trip up into the st. Joe
country, where Steve Adams had
earlier in the year helped Simpkins kill
off q few claim jumpers, and then went
down to Caldwell, stopping at Nampa
on the way. Simpkins went over to
Silver City and finally back to Spokane,
leaving Orchard on the job.
SETS BOMB FOR EX-GOVERNOR
Steunenberg came to Boise one day
and Orchard followed. He had a
chance here to turn the trick. but did
not do it, and went back to Caldwell.
Finally he learned Steunenberg S
habits thoroughly and made a bomb
to take the place of the one he, had
brought from Denver Simpkins had
objected to that as dangerous to carry
around and they had thrown it away
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