The San Francisco call., 1907-06-06

| think, and made reach. as I thought. for a
gun then shot him three times with sawed
Ibid you kill himY'
Eyes. sir, / believe / did"
Orchard then told Of running away and hiding
his gun. Next day he saw Haywood Peetioohe
and Jack simpkins.
DEPOT Is DYNAMITED
They all expressed themselves as well ell
pleased Th the job They Sa It gas s
Gregory OF had done good job"
Where was Meyer at this time?
HE was in Jail at Telluride"
rangement to the amount of money TO De
paid for tho taking on Of Gregory He received
from headquarters right along. Orchard said
that Haywood, Pettibone. Simpkins and Sherman
Haywood and the others said that they were
having trouble in the convention and that there
threatened to be split-un,' Continued orchard.
They thought that IL something was pulled on
in Cripple Greek the excitement would make
delegates would go home. We planned then to
blow up the Independence depot in Colorado.
and he said that he did. 1 gave. him the
money to get the powder with and We took the
pendence;, preparatory to using II the next
night. The next day Sherman Parker told me
that some OF the men from the convention Were
coming up to independence to make an fnvesti-
cation Of conditions there and he told us TO not
pni file thing of until they went away.
same night e1 We a placed the powder a undsr @ the
station platform. attached a wire 10 4 and
trains brought nouupion men to Independence.
We used 100 pounds of the powder.
Steve Adams and I both pulled the string
This acid ran over a box. of giant. caps and
these set the powder or The depot
wrecked and from IL to IA men were killed.
TAKES TO FLIGHT
1--WE went to Colorado Springs and camped
there one night We then eamped near Palmer
coming into the city on an electric car. In
Denver we met HAYWOOD and Pettibone in Jack
Smpkins room. Kirwan. the acting
retary of the western federation Of miners,
also there
up Of the depot. Pettibone spoke first and said
he was well pleased with the job. Haywood
also said M ,t, It was good thing that things had
a lot Of fellows In Cripple Greek had been ar
rested and we must lay low till they were out.
l remained in Denver three four days.
Johnny Neville and his son Charley were
with US They had been with Adams and my
confidence as to the plot. Before left Denver
told Haywood that wanted $500 to take
trip to Wyoming. He said he would send me
pettibone gave me the $780, Adams told me
that he had got 5000.
enne Charlie Sesille @ ronR ,hrs with e me- O ossy ssw
In the papers there that we were suspected OF
that we had better get along.
Il asked Pat Moran In Cheyenne to take a
letter to Pettibone asking him for $500 Moran
took the letter 70 Pettibone and brought the
money back. Cheyenne is only 100 miles from
Denver. Neville and I decided to 60 on to the
Dakotas. 1t was about two weeks before we
reached Ihermopolis. Neville wanted to stop
there and take the hot baths.
LETTERS TO PETTIBONE
II ~ rode on and sent the horse back for 30
VILE At Cody, Wyo., I got a letter from
Pettibone. destroyed the letter right away.
1t said that had better get to the tall timber
right away; that was wanted for the Inde-
pendence depot affair.
Instead Of going to the tall timber I went
straight back to Denver and saw Pettfbone and
Haywood. They told me at first that I'D better
get out of the country. They also told me that
they had another man working on the Peabody
affair.
In the latter part Of July. 1904, Pettibone got
me railroad ticket and gave me $3.50 more