The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-28
STATE CLOSES
TN NOTED CASE
Haywood Now Has His Inning in
Boise, Idaho, Court.
A HARD JOB ON HAND
Must Break Down Such Parts of Orchards
Testimony duplicating Him in
Steunenberg Murder.
A HARD JOB ON HAND

When the state closed Its case at
Boise, Idaho Friday, against Hay
wood, charged with the murder Of
Frank Steunenberg, the defense made
an unsuccessful attempt to secure
from the court an order directing the
jury to acquit the prisoner. Judge
Woods ruling, which requires the de-
tense to meet with evidence the case
that the state has presented, was
made at SIS O'Clock, and it was then
arranged that Haywoods counsel
should make their opening statement
and present their first testimony on
Monday.
When the trial opened Friday morn
ing. it was stipulated that the record
should show that the date of the draft
sent by Haywood to Jack Simpkins
late ia 1906 was December 81, and af-
ter that the prosecution proceed to
show by a handwriting expert that
George Pettibone. using the names of
"J Wolff and 'P. Bone" made two
semittances Of money to Harry Orch
ard at San Francisco, through the
Pacific Postal Telegraph company, in
The fall of 1904. The state next called
Jim Seahorn, colored horse-trader,
who swore that be sold a horse and
buggy to Orchard in Denver In 1905,
and identified Haywood as one of the
men who rode with Orchard
SO far, many statements made by
Orchard on the stand have been cor
roborated He told OF the houses he
visited and the rooms he occupied in
San francisco; he cold of expert
ments with the peculiar bomb which,
he says, was invented by Pettibone;
he told OF receiving money from Pat
Bone" who, he said, was Pettibone;
he told of the poisoned milk; he de-
scribed his plans TO blow Bradley
and possibly his whole family to their
death with a bomb loaded with dyna-
mite; he gave his hotel address and
each statement has been cororborated
by witnesses whose testimony has not
been successfully assaied in their
cross-eXamination
The state has contented itself with
bringing before the jury the story Of
the blowing up Of the concentrator at
Wardner where Orchard lighted one
OF the fuses that caused the death of
two men.
The state commenced its strong cor
roboration OF his story from the time
OF his connection with the Miners
Union in Colorado and the outbreak of
the great strike at Cripple Creek.
The Vindicator mine netted the
murderer two men He told how the
powder was stored and where, and
how it was fired by a pistol exploded
by the lifting of guard rail to which
wire was attached.
The explosion Of the independence
depot, confessed to by Orchard as hav-
ing been planned and executed by him,
resulted in the death Of fourteen non
union miners.
Orchard said he hunted Governor
Peabody by bomb and gun and both
the former governor of Colorado and
his daughter have testified to incidents
described by Orchard. The attacks on
Peabody We're failures, but the man
who made one Of the bombs described
by Orchard has been found and the
bomb itself has been traced to the
place where Orchard said it would be
found
Orchard told OF planting bomb at
the gate OF Judge Goddard in Denver.
This associate justice of the supreme
court of Colorado has testified HIM
self TO the finding Of the bomb after
Orchard made his confession exactly
where Orchard said he placed it.
Orchard said he planted a bomb to
Kill Judge Gabbert, another justice
OF the supreme court OF Colorado.
Judge Gabbert escaped but the bomb
exploded and Killed a passer-by whom
Orchard described as IAN innocent
man"
Orchard has been traced through
Colorado, Montana, Washington and
IdahQ up to the gate Of Governor Steu.
nenbefgs residence, where, on Deem
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