The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10

Boise. Idaho July 9.-The Haywood
trial recommended at $50 this morning
when the reading of the san Francisco
depOsitiOnS was continued.
With the prospect that another full day
would have to be given over to the read
ing of the San Francisco dispositions COW
eTing the explosion at the apartments or
Fred W. Bradley in that city IN NoNem-
her 1904. there were few spectators IN
court this morning when the trial was
resumed. Senator BOrah, who on yester-
day divided the task of reading with At
TOTnev Clarence DarrOw of the defense.
was iudispOsed this morning, and the
Prosecutions portion of the burden fell on
III. Hawley.
the testimony OF J. 3. Reilly, who lived
near the Bradley apartments in Washing
ton street. Reilly declared he had passed
the apartment house but few minutes
before the explosion and saw a japanese
servant cleaning the stOOD and vestbule.
He did not believe il was within the range
of possibility Tor any one 70 nave paced
a bomb there ir the manner indicated by
Orchard IL the time which elapsed be
tween his passing and the report or the
explosion. Orchard testified that after
placing the bomb he boarded a street car
and got out OF hearing before the eXplO-
sion occurred.
Gas Testimony Read.
The next deposition taken up was that
Of Mrs. Charles PickaTd. who as Mrs.
Crow had been employed by the Brad
levs as cook She told of having smelled
gas in the house for several days prior
10 the explosion and had called up the
gas company TO complain Of IT,
Mrs. Crow denied absolutely that she
had gone TO the theatre with Orchard as
he testified She declared that he told
faIsehood when he testified TO that eff
The witness declared the explosion was
more like a thUd than a sharp report
Attorney barrow next took up the depO
Of Mrs a Cummings
occupied one of the flats in the building
with the Bradleys. She described the eX-
plOsiOn as the most terrible noise she
had ever heard in her life. The witness
and her husband We're at breakfast at
the time and both jumped to their feet,
explaining: ITS gas Gas had been
leaking about the house Tor some time.
Asked if she heard one or two explO-
siOns, Mrs. Cummings said there was Just
lone big noise" Rushing into the hall
she smelled gas. but no powder. The
witness did not know. however, whether
exploding dynamite smelled like ordinary
powder or not.
Mrs Josephine Linforth. wife OF the
owner of the apartment house, made one
Of the affidavits read today. She told OF
the excitement of the Japanese servant
who had been cleaning the front stoop
just few minutes before the explosion
John j. Ecleiman, member of the San
Francisco fire department, who was with
the company which responded to fire
alarm following the explosion at the
Bradley house. told of smelling gas
strongly when he arrived on the scene
THE explosion was not a sharp report.
as he remembered it. but loud roar
Several other members Of the fire de-
partment gave testimony similar TO that
az Eckelman. One of these. John w
Parry said he had had considerable ex-
perience with dynamite explosions and
they differed il sound and effect from
that at the Bradley apartment
All Of the firemen said they had heard
but one explosion. Parry declared that
the explosion at the Bradley apartment