Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-09

taking of dispositions in San Fran
cisco for the last month. appeared in
court this afternoon and Joined the at
torneys surrounding Haywood.
Senator Borah objected to the in
PRODUCTION of the re-cross examination
of Walter Linforth. the owner of the
Linforth building in San Francisco.
when the explosion occurred in No
vember, 1905. The re-crosS examina-
tion contained in the dispositions was
offered by the defense. The question
of the admissibility of this portion of
the deposition was argued by Mr..
Richardson for the defense and Sem
ator Borah for the state.
Judge Wood ruled the re-cross ex-
animation out. This brought the Lin
forth deposition to an end. Mr.. Dar-
row then began on the testimony of
Mr.. Bradley himself. -
In his testimony Bradley stated
that on the morning of the explosion.
November Z, 1904, he started to leave
his apartments about 1880 a. m. He
had a lighted cigar in his mouth as he
walked downstairs.
Immediately after placing my
hand .on the knob and starting to open
the outside door of the vestibule," :"
said Bradley, there was a flash of
light at the end of my cigar.
thought some one had been joking
me, that / had been given a trick
cigar. Next there was a deafening
explosion. MY first impression was
that | had been shot in the head My
next impression was that | was being
asphyxiated and would die If did not
get out. I felt there was a tremen-
dous pressure holding me down Then
there came a lifting force and I was
thrown out into the street onto the
car tracks. knew I was on the car
track for l remember feeling | must
get out of the way or car would be
along.
Il had time to think I had been
given a trick cigar" said Bradley,
when asked how long space of time
there was between the flash at the end
of the cigar and the explosion.
A week or so prior to the eXplo-
sion. Mrs. Bradley had complained of
smelling gas onNthe stairs while the
witness himself could smell nothing.
There had been general complaint in
the house about the escaping gas
Further cross examined, Bradley said
he felt two distinct forces. the first
crushing him down and the second
lifting him up. The interval between
gave him time to think he was shot
in the head, to feel as if his ears had
been blown off and to think that ne
was IN danger Of asphXxiation. The
latter feeling, he was sure, came from
Illuminating gas.
Toward the conclusion of his depo-
stiOn, Mr.. Bradley said that his first
belief that the explosion was caused
by the gas had been considerably
modified by Orchards confession and
the other testimony offered on the
subject
After the Bradley deposition That of
Percy Cummings. who occupied one
of the Linforth flats in San Francis
co, was read. Cummings left the
house just before the explosion and
deposed that he saw no bomb at
Bradley's door
on cross examination, Cummings
said he did not remember seeing the
door mat at Bradley's door, and that
he was not paying particulars Satten-
tfCn 10 Bradlcy's door and the vesti-
bule of the flats.
The next deposition to be read was
that of j. b. Reilly, who resided near
the Linforth flats in San Francisco
He passed the Linforth building ten
minutes before the explosion. and tes-
tilted that he saw a japanese servant
washing the marble stairs.