The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-07-05
The TRIAL
AT BOISE
COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE ENDEAV.
OR TO PROVE CONSPIRACY
OF MINE OWNERS.
PROVED ALIBI FOR ORCHARD
Owner OF the House Has Secured
Judgment Against Gas Company
for Explosion-Claim Simp-
kins Dead.

Boise, Idaho A review of the ev-
idence introduced in the course of the
last five days brings the inevitable
conclusion that counsel for the de-
tense would endeavor to prove to the
satisfaction Of the jury that the Pink
erton agency and the Mine Owners
association, with the knowledge and
approval of the governor of Idaho, the
former governor of Colorado, the for
mer adjutant general of Colorado and
other influential people, conspired to
secure the death by hanging of Will
liam d. Haywood, Charles II. Meyer
and George A. Pettibone, and that IN
~cidentally the mine owners are direct-
ly responsible for the killing of IA
men in the Independence depot.
The evidence so far introduced by
the defense goes to prove that Or
chard, knowing of the blowing up of
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan concen-
traitor in 1899; of the explosion in the
Vindicator mine and of the blowing up
of the Independence depot; of the
killing of Lyle Gregory, and of the
explosion at Bradley's residence in
San Francisco, accused himself of hav-
ing committed the crimes and the
murder of II men, when in fact he
had little or no personal connection
with any of them.
Orchard Was Miles Away.
Witnesses have sworn that Orchard
was not at Wardner on the day the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentration
was blown up; that facts connected
with the Vindicator mine tend to the
conclusion that the explosion was ac-
cidental; that while Orchard may
have been present when the ~Independ-
ence depot was destroyed, Steve Adj
ans was in fact the man who was en-
ployed by the mine owners to blow
up a piece of useless property, but
that a blunder resulted in loss OF
life; that Lyle Gregory was murdered
at the instance of the United NINE
Workers and not of the Western Fed
GRAFTON, and that Orchard, possessing
a mania for Boosting of the commits
sion of great crimes, was lying when
he said he vas connected with the
bomb at Bradley's house.
Evidence has also been introduced
to show that both Orchard and Simp-
kins had personal motive for killing
former Governor Steunenberg and
that Simpkins' motive was the strong
er of the two in that he was Sub
ject to unjust punishment and torture
at the hands of negro troops called IN
by the association in 1899. Further
evidence as to the explosion at the
Bradley house is yet to come. Deposi-
tions from MI. Bradley will be intro
duced. They were made recently IN
San Francisco. Bradley swears that
lation of escaping gas and that the
owner of the house secured a judg-
ment. for damages against the gas
company before a jury, and further
that an appeal to the superior court
resulted in a confirmation of the find
ing of the jury in the lower court.
simpkins' Presence Not Denied.
The defense has not attempted to
deny the presence of Jack Simpkins
in Caldwell, in company with Orchard,
: shortly before the murder of Steunen-
berg, and the evidence as to the treat
ment of Simpkins shortly before the
murder of Steunenberg and the evil
dence as to the treatn Ont OF Simp-
kins by the authorities while he was
in the bull pen indicates that the de-
tense does not intend to clear Simp-
kins by participation in that crime as
an accessory before the fact. 1t has
been repeatedly stated, as a matter
OF current report, that counsel for the
defense knew of the whereabouts OF
Simpkins, who has been a fugitive
since S~teunenberg's murder.