The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-20
5udue Wood Ruled That the
State Could Use Them to
-Corroborate the Story Told
By Orchard on the Stand.
DRAMATIC PRODUCTION
IN WEDNESDAY HEARING.
John L. Stearns, an Express
Agent at Denver, Confirmed
The Story Orchard Told
About Securing Employment

Boise, June 20.-Judge Wood decid-
ed today TO admit the miners rhaga-
zine articles to corroborate Orchard
and show animus on the part OF the
defendant. Darrow asked il the de-
fense would be permitted to read in
to record the whole of the articles
from which the state selects para
graphs. The court said he would de-
eide that when he came to it. Borah
spent the forenoon reading the maya
zine articles.
Progress Of Wednesday.
The state Wednesday made dra-
matte production and proof of the
Goddard bomb and beside offering
further corroborations of the testimo-
ny OF Harry Orchard against William
D. Haywood, secured a ruling under
which a number of the denunciatory
articles published In the Miners
Magazine, official organ of the West
ern Federation of Miners, will be ad-
mitted in evidence.
To Justice Luther M. Goddard him.
self fell the task of telling the story OF
the finding and preservation for use
as evidence OF the bomb with which
Orchard tried to kill him. His ap-
pearance on the stand added another
to the many dramatic scenes and situ-
ations that have characterized the
trial, and his testimony was clear and
sninutuely circumstantial.
The veteran Colorado jurist testified
that the first information that he re-
cefved about the bomb came to him
from Orchards confession, which was
shown to him at Denver, Feb. 13. 1906.
by Detective Mcfarland. He at
once returned to his home and in his
gate discovered the screw eye which
Orchard says he placed there. 1t was
rusted and corroded by ten months ex
posure. The witness said he exam
1ned the ground outside the gate
where Orchard said he placed the
bomb and found slight depression
with the soil packed very hard about
It.
Wells Digs up Bomb.
The bomb was dug up the next day
by Gen. Bulkeley Wells, who used
pocket knife to cut the soil away and
raise the pine box containing the bomt
There was a small vial on top of the
box and attached to the rubber cork ol
the vial was a piece of rusted wire.
The bomb and it's attachment were
at once taken to the office OF the Pink
erton Detective Agency and carefully
sealed In a wrapper and envelopes
that we're signed by half dozen wit
nesses, including Justice Goddard, an6
after that they were placed in vault
TO. the door of which seals. including
that Of a notary public were attached
There they rested until the FOLLOWING
Nav %. when, believing the Haywood
case was to come to trial, they were
removed in the presence OF the same
witnesses and all, save three OF tns
forty sticks of giant powder contained
in the bomb, were exploded. The ex
pIosions occurred in the presence o
witnesses at a point in the suburbs o.
Denver. and Of the bomb itself twelve
giant caps and two wrappers Tori
from sticks of giant powder were saw
ed as evidence.
pefense's Objections overruled.
Senator Borah produced the severa
packets as they were originally seal
ed and, commencing with the pnlai
passed them to Justice Goddard, wht
broke the seals and identified the ar
ticles. After the phial came the LITTLE
screw-eye, then the dozen giant cap
!. and last the powder wrapper. Attor
news Richardson and Darrow, for th'
defense, objected TO all the evidence
and all the exhibits, and moved t.
strike out everything, but the cour
ruled against them all along the line.
Mrs. Seward. at whose house II
San Francisco, Harry Orchard hvet
during part of the time he was con
ductinx his operations against Free
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