Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-15
States Case Grows
Stronger Against
Haywood
DEFENSE OBJECTS IN VAIN
Orchards Story of Grim e Cor
roborated BY Each Succeed.
ing Witness.

Boise, Idaho, June 15.-When the
Haywood trial was resumed today,
Judge Wood permitted Witness j. T
Pender, over the protest of the de-
fense to testify as to the contents
of a telegram sent to Haywood by
Steve Adams after his arrest at Og
den, Utah. Pender said that the
telegram read:
"I am in trouble send me SIS at
once"
J. G. Houston, assistant cashier OF
the First National Bank of Denver
identified Haywood's signature on five
drafts which were marked for iden'
tification The drafts were in favor
OF L. J. Simpkins.
Another draft was introduced bear,
ing the signature of James kirwan,
assistant secretary and treasurer OF
the Western Federation of Miners.
Counsel Richardson objected to the
introduction of this draft because 1t
was immaterial and had no connec'
tion with the murder of Steunenberg.
After much argument Judge Wood
ruled that upon the state showing the
connection between these and the de.
fendant he would admit the drafts
as evidence. Twenty-one other drafts
were presented and their signatures
identified but they We're not intro
duced in evidence. On cross-exami-
nation Houston said that thousands
of drafts were sent out in year by
Haywood and his assistant Kirwan.
Militia Officer Testifes.
Major H. A. Naylor, Of Victor, Co.
dorado, an officer of the National
Guard of Colorado, at the time Of the
Vindicater mine explosion, was the
next witness. He identified portions
of pistol and wire found by him in
the mine after the explosion. They
are believed to be parts Of the pistol
and wire by means of which, accord
ing to Orchards story, the explosion
was caused. The fragments were ad-
mitted in evidence over the objection
Of the defense.
In the cross-examination of Naylor
Attorney Richardson insinuated that
the defense would try to show that
the Vindicator mine owners were be-
hind in the payment of their assess
ment to the Mine Owners Associa-
tion and that soldiers were employed
to create disturbances and destroy
their property which acts Of the as
sociation were laid to the door of the
Western Federation of Miners Nay.
lor said he knew nothing of the ar
rears due from the Vindicator mine
and denied having any animosity
against the members of the miners
union and declared that he had moth
ing to do with the actual deportation
Of union miners from Cripple Creek.
Richardson wanted to know if Nay
lor had not attended meeting with
Orchard and others at Victor on the
evening of June 9Th, 1904. and in.
formed the militia to be ready as
something was going to happen.
Naylor denied this,
Identity Peabody Bomb.
The next act of the prosecution was
to prove the finding of the Peabody
bomb which Orchard said he had
taken from Denver to Wallace. He
gave the bomb, he said, to man
named Cunningham who wanted to
blow up "scab" boarding house, and
he told him If he did not use 1t to
throw it into the river.
w. Fl. Schulenberg, formely fire.
man at Wallace, testified that
he found the bomb while cutting ice
on the river in front of the Wallace
fire station. He gave the bomb tc
Sheriff Angus Sutherland Suther-
land told of unloading the bomb which
was packed with twenty pounds Of
giant powder. The lead casing of the
bomb was identified by both Schulen.
berg and Sutherland. Governor Pea
body, his wife and daughter were
among the interested spectators when
the bomb was produced. A motion by
the defense to strike out all the testi.
mony as to the bomb as immaterial
was denied
Plumber Made Casing for Bomb.
Charles T. Roach, plumber, for
merly of Denver, identified the lead
casing as having been made by him
on an order in May, 1905. The pur-
chaser he said, told him he wanted
it to plant cactus in. The plumber
said he could no identify the man who
ordered the casing.
Miss Cora Peabody testified to see.
ing two men almost at the carriage
door one night in 1904, when she and
her mother and sister returned from
the theater. She watched the men as