Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-29
Defense in HayWood's Case At
tacks Orchards Account
OF the Disaster.
NoN-uNIoN MINERS STORY.
Thomas Wood. Who WAS in Mine at
The Time. Says The Disaster
Mas nm accident.

Boise, Ida, June 2S.~~The attorneys
FOR William u. Haywood continue 10
center their efforts on the discredting
of Harry orchard and the establish
rnent of their claim that Orchard killed
Frank Sieunenbere IN revenge for the
loss OF his interests In the Hercules
ntft Today they directly attached
the vindicator explosion with the testi-
mony OF a witness that made 1t appear
accidental, rather than criminal.
Thomas Wood. a non -unionist. who
entered the indicator mine as tins
herman after the strike began swoie
that the night before the explosion he
placed box containing 70 pounds OF
giant powder nj the shaft OF the eighth
level He saw the powder tho next
morning shortly after 10 o'clock, aud
few minutes later Supt. Mccormick
and Foreman Beck came to the eighth
level. They remained but short time
and left to go to the sixth level. whore
they were killed, Wood swore that
when he reached the shaft, 20 minutes
later TIE powder was gone, and II is y
reasonable inference that Mccormick
ana Beck took 1t with them,
THE FAMOUS REVOLVER
Wood testified that he had secii Il
ltNplNtI III bfNk pocket, lndl ltlt
fragments of only one revolver were
found on the sixth level. and that
the bodies OF Mccormick and Beck
We're blown apart. indicating that the
explosion had occurred between them.
orchard had said that he fired q re-
volver with Wire attachment. SO that
when the safety-bar was raised II
would send n bullet in the giant pow
der he had placed. one witness for the
state has sworn that he later found
Wire attached To the safety-bar but
Wood, who was among the first 10
reach the sixth level after the explo-
sion, said that he carefully exa mined
the safety-bar. and found nothing at
tached to II. Wood gave his testimony
in clear and forceful manner. and told
thrilling story OF the climb 10 safety
~ the men cut of by the explosion
below the sixth level.
SAY ORCHARD THREATENED
William. Easterly who concluded his
testimony. this morning, and y. G. Cop
ley, who Z was called this afternoon.
both swore that they heard Orchard
tell Of the loss OF the Hercules
mine and threaten 10 XIII Steunenberg
for 1t. On cross-examlnation the state
scored them both, and particularly
Easterly. who received two letters and
one telephone message from Orchard
on the eve OF the killing OF Steunen-
berg. for remaining quiet when they
knew a crime might be committed.
Easterly commended that he did not
know Steunenberg lived at Caldwell,
and explained that although he knew
'rhomas Hogan was Harry Orchard
he took no steps Immediately after the
crime. except to consult counsel for
the federation because he was not
an informer, and Copley asserted that
he did not take orchard seriously
when they met In San Francisco and
he told him of tho Bradley crime.
There was a further showing as TO
the work of the bloodhonnds at indie
pendence station. which the defense
said went first to the house OF dep
uty sheriff and then down the road
that Orchard took ON his flight to Den
Yer and on to Wyoming. and denials
and redenlas from Easterly 81 Cop
ley OF any form of misconduct ON the
pnrt of the members OF the Western
Federation OF Miners.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The first witness after recess was c.
a. Collins, of LeadVille. Colo, rail-
road bra KEENAN,. who was a miner al
the time of the Independence depot ex-
plosion., He told of two bloodhounds be-
Ing brought there and put upon the
scene. They circled about some and then
brought up at u cabin occupied by AL
Beemore. The last he saw Of the dogs
they were being taken toward the VIM
dicator mine.
ss-examined by Mr.. Hawley. Col
Inns said he had once belonged to the
Western Federation OF Miners. He was
twice arrested by the military following
the Independence depot affair ana
thrown into the 'bull pen He was