Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-07-17


the case against Haywood. the prose-
cution put six witnesses on the stand
today to rebut the evidence of the de-
fense. Three testified to conditions
in the Coeur d'Alenes in 1899. and
three on the situation in Colorado dur
ing the strike period of 1908. and 1904.
The important witnesses OF the day
were called to contradict the showing
made by witnesses for the defense.
that there was no reason for calling
out the militia other than a desire on
the part of the mine owners to drive
the members of the Western Fedora
ton from the mining district One
witness fatty contradicted the evi-
dence introduced by the defense to
show that the explosion at the Vindi-
Gator mine was due to an accident
Edward Award, a physician of
Burke. one of the mining towns of the
Coeur d'Alenes. swore that he saw Or
chard the day of the blowing up of the
concentration at Wardner and that he
came from a train returning from
Wardner. The train was in possession
of the mob that blew up the concen-
traitor and killed two men. Awards
evidence contradicted the witnesses
for the defense who said they saw Or
chard playing poker on that day at
Mullen. several miles away. The claim
Of the defense is that Orchard was not
at Wardner and had no part in the
riot.
A T. Holman was sworn in rebuttal
of the testimony of Thomas Wood. a
witness for the defense Wood said
he saw Beck and Mccormick. the two
men killed by the explosives at the
Vindicator mine. inahe eighth level.
He said Beck carried a revolver that
day and that he saw a box of powder
on water barrel in the eighth level.
just before Beck and Mccormick went
up TO the sixth, where the explosion
occurred a few minutes later The
impression created was that the two
men carried the powder with them and
that Beck dropped his revolver. which
exploded and the powder went off
| This would account for the finding of
the shattered parts of a revolver near
the bodies. orchard swore that he
fired the powder with a pistol
Holman was superintendent of a
neighboring mine and formerly super
intendent of the vindicator. He was
one of the first to go down the shaft
of the yindicator afterathe explosion.
His evidence was given largely from a
chart of the interior of the mine. and
he contradicted Wood on many points
L. G. Ramsay. a young man. a rela-
tive Of Mccormick, followed Holman
He was in charge of the powder in the
| mine at the time~of the explosion. He
knew Beck and Mccormick well and
swore that neither ever carried a re-
volver. and that there was no powder
! in the mine at the time. as far as he
knew. and that there was no water
barrel on the eighth level. as Wood
| testified
Sheriff Rutar Of San Miguel county
Colorado. was the last witness of the
day. He testified as to the strike con-
ditions. Under a searching cross-ex-
! animation by Richardson. Rutan ad-
mitted that union miners were deport-
ed and driven by force from the coun-
ty. while he was sheriff. and no at
tempt was made to prevent or punish
those who attacked union men. He
said the deportations were the work
While the big trial is going on in
the district court. before Judge Ere
mont Wood an interesting Off shoot of
the case is being heard in a small room
! used as a court by Justice Of the
Peace Savage. c.. W. Ailer, the depot
agent. who was arrested yesterday.
charged with perjury. was brought be-
fore the magistrate for a preliminary
hearing.
The state was represented by Prose-
| cutting Attorney Kotlsch and the pris-
oner by Peter Breen. an attorney of
Butte, who has been associated with
Haywood's counsel. having been re-
tanned by the miners union OF Butte.
Mont. to watch the case. Fred Mil
Ter. who was Orchards counsel at the
preliminary hearing i'm Caldwell i'm
mediately after the murder of Steun-
enberg. assisted Mr.. Breen. The prin-
cipal witness in the perjury case was
Orchard himself. The prisoner was
brought from the penitentiary in the