Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-08
EXPLOSION At BRADLEY
HOUSE CAUSED
BY GAS
Testimony Taken at San Fran.
cisco by Defense
Leads to That
Theory.
PLUMBERS FOUND
HOLES IN Meters
Orchard !Sdid He Ha Planted
Bomb at Residence But Owner
Insists That Damage Was
Not Due to Dy-
Mantle.

BOISE, luanO, July o.-l ne cHlli z
morning session of the Haywood trial
was taken up today with the reading
of testimony offered by the defense
on the subject of the explosion at the
house of Fred Bradley in San Fran
cisco in 1905. The testimony was
taken by a commission appointed by
Judge Wood, whJ is presiding at the
present trial, and is intended to con-
tradict Orchards story of placing the
bomb in the front porch of the Brad
ley house, as a part of a conspiracy
alleged against the Western Fedora
ion of Miners, and of which the
state asserts that the Stuenenberg
murder was an incident.
Caused by Gas.
The defense during the stay of the
commission in San Francisco, took
the testimony of Bradley himself,
and several others, expressing the be-
lief that the explosion was due to
gas, and declaring that the havoc
wrought by 1t was not caused by
dynamite.
orchard declared that the bomb,
arranged by him to be exploded when
the front door opened, contained
about ten pounds of dynamite, en-
cased in a large section of lead pipe.
The reading of this testimony,
which was taken in question and an
swer form, began Immediately after
LinfOrths Testimony.
The attorney read first the testi-
mony of Walter H. Linforth, owner
of the apartment house in which
Bradley lived. Linforth sued the gas
company just after the explosion, and
was awarded ten thousand dollars
damages.
with the Orchard confession as a
basis, the gas company is seeking a
new trial.
Linforth, who lived in the next
building to the apartments. declared
that the noise of the explosion was
terrific and that windows for blocks
around were broken. Hurrying to
the scene, Linforth said he could not
smell powder, and did not see any
fragments of lead.
In the basement were seven gas
meters. Two months after the ex-
plosion two plumbers found a hole in
the back of one of the meters. The
building was of frame and the gas
in the cellar could rise between the
walls to the vestibule where the ex-
plosion occurred.
The Linforth testimony had not
been completed when luncheon ad-
journment was ordered.
Want Meyer to Confess.
That Meyer rumor has bobbed up
again big as life and twice as natural.
According to the latest report, airs.
Meyer is pleading with her husband
to turn states evidence and save him.
self. 1t is said that the imprisoned
leader sternly rebuffed her The at
torneys for the defense are apparent
ly not at all disturbed by these re-
ports.
The story concerning Mrs Meyer
is based on the fact that Mrs. Calvin
Cobb, a society leader and the wife
of the man who is said to have con-
vinced Roosevelt that Meyer and
Haywood are undesirable citizens"
has been very attentive to the wife
of the president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. Mrs. Cobb is said
to have convinced Mrs. Meyer that
her husband was in jeopardy and
was to induce him to go on the stand
and support Orchards story. Mrs.
Meyer, so the report goes, tearfully
approached her husband with the
proposition. Meyer is said to have
refused point blank, saying he had
nothing to tell, but If he had and tes-
tined Tor the prosecution he would
be ostracised by all men forever.
Mrs. Meyer is said to have told her
husband that he would be released
Immediately If he followed her ad-
vice.
Assisting Mrs. Cobb in turning the
head of Mrs. Meyer were several 9TH
er society women of this place, and
so well did they work that they boast
ed this week that Meyer was to de-
sert his comrades. The local Wo-
mans club was behind Mrs. Cobb in
a body and the gossip of that insti-
tuition made the news public.