Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

"high grading" and there discovered {
quantity of powder He reported this
to Davis and there, he said, began the
plot to do violence in the mine. He
said the first attempt was failure
because the cage man discovered hin
and his pal and drew their fire, but
later a contrivance was successfully
fixed by which discharged pistol sci
off bomb and killed Superintendent
Mccormick and Foreman Beck. Five
hundred dollars, he said, was the re-
ward for the murder. Then came the
journey to Denver, where the witness
| said he met Meyer Haywood and Pet
tibone and entered their employ as an
assassin. He swore that Haywood
paid him $500 for blowing up the Vim
dicator mine.
Then came the making of two bombs
that were tossed into the coal heap at
the Vindfcator mine but were never
| heard from again, and then digres-
| sion to confess that before the sue
cessful attempt at the Vindicator mine
he had informed the railway manage
ment of a plot to blow UP it's trains
carrying nonunion men.
Next the prisoner related how he
journeyed to southern Colorado as q
guard to Meyer, and here the narra-
every side by the defense at every
material point halted for the noon re-
cess.
Word that Horsley was on the stand
spread through the city and a few mo-
ments after the doors of the court
room were opened in the afternoon
every available seat for the public was
taken and squad of deputies had to
force the doors shut and clear away q
clamoring crowd that jammed the stair
way and landing. Horsley spent the
noon recess under guard at Hawley's
office, and at 1880 o'clock was driven
back to the court house to resume his
story.
There was no delay this time and
within few minutes the witness was
on the stand telling of his journey with
Meyer and his return to Denver, where
1t was suggested, he said, that he kill
Governor Peabody.
To Kill Peabody
He said he picked Steve Adams to
aid him, and together they stalked the
governor between the capitol building
and his home, trying for shot at him
with cutoff shotguns. Haywood and
Pettibone were in on the plot and fur
nished the witness with money from
time to time. The plot failed because
Horsley and Adams followed carriage |
containing three women to the Pea
body home and excited suspicion.
4NeAt CdIlle lIle piOI 10 uyIldIlllIo Hea- |
body, and Horsley said they made a |
bomb, but gave up the plan at the sug-
gestion of Haywood, who was in fear |
that they would all be arrested. He |
said he and Adams were told to lay
off for time, but meantime Pettibone |
suggested that they kill Lyte Gregory,
who had been deputy sheriff and had |
given testimony against some of the
members of the federation. The wit
fHAx Iafo 1A1 E1o
ing of Gregory and of his final muir
der.
Gregory turned and backed up
against fence" said the witness, "as
If to draw a gun, and I shot him three
times. 1t certainly killed him."
This tale of cowardly, brutal man
hunting and killing seemed to play
with greater intensity upon the nerves
Of the men and women who sat listen
ng to Horsley than any of the others,
and perceptible shudder went through
he room as he calmly talked of the
shooting. 1t was the only place where
L victim had been brutally faced; the
others had been done to death by me-
,hanical and chemical contrivances.
Then came the frightful tragedy at
followed by the flight to
and after that the trip to
San Francisco for the purpose of kill
his visit to Denver, when he got the
money for killing Mccormick and Beck,
he was constantly in communication
and in the pay of either Haywood
Meyer, Pettibone, Simpkins or Davis;
that one or all of them suggested his
various crimes and that at all meet
ngs held after each crime his acts had
Oeen warmly commended.
The defense kept up its attack all
through the afternoon, protesting
against the admission of every material
statement of the witness, but Judge i
Wood, accepting for the time the as
;urance of the state that it will make |
rood the connection everywhere, ruled
against the defense on all points save |
me. He declined to let Horsley tell the |
contents of telegram sent to him at
San Francisco by Pettibone while he
vas engaged in the attempt on the life
If Bradley.
When taken from the stand Horsley
vas at once driven to the penitentiary.
He will be brought back to town early
n the morning.