The San Francisco call., 1907-06-16

Naylor denied that he had anything
to do with the deportations and said
that the story that orders had been is
sued TO the Victor company OF the
guard on the morning Of June 3, lsO5'
or the day before the Independence de-
pot affair, to be ready for an emer-
gency that night was false. He added
that some members of the company
were in the explosion, one being killed
and others injured.
Richardson went thoroughly into the
conditions in tie district during the
strike and brought out with much ems
phasis the side OF the miners, but Nay
lor either said that he had nothing to
do personally with the transactions
described or that he had never heard of
them, or he denied the assertions en-
tirely. When he left the stand four or
i've witnesses were called in succession
all OF whom had something TO tell OF
the inding and Identifying Of the lead
case of the bomb which Orchard took
10 Canyon City to kill Peabody. They
included the fireman at Wallace, who
found IL IN the river when chopping a
hole in the ice behind the fire station.
He cut into the lead with his ak
Were you looking for a bomb?"
asked Richardson.
Not with a fire AK" replied the wit
ness.
UNLoADs THE BOND
Postmaster Dunno of Wallace told Of
the unloading of the bomb case and the
removal of % or 80 pounds of dyna-
mite from it Sheriff Sutherland told
of taking it to Denver, where it was
identified by the plumbers who made it
c. T. Roach. the plumber, told Of
making the bomb case for a man who
wanted a metal basket In which TO set
a cactus plant. This was the reason
that Orchard said he had given the
plumber for making it
Then Vaughn came. He is now a
railroad man, working for the 500 line,
and is q member Of the order Of rail-
road conductors, so that in his case, at
least, antagonism to organized labor
was not the motive for testifying. He
is a self-possessed young man. who told
mis- story in q straightforward, convinc-
ing manner, and was not disturbed In
the least on cross examination. He told
OF meeting Orchard in Denver in the
winter OF 1908 at the Bellview hotel
Orchard was Dempsey then They
met at intervals until the spring Of
1905, when Orchard, then Hogan. pro-
posed the trip to Canyon City to write
life insurance. Vaughn had quit rail-
roading and took UP the proposition,
getting a contract from the same agent
who gave Orchard his. Vaughn went
TO Canyon City and found Hogan in
stalled in a room. which they shared.
Vaughn corroborated in detail Orch
ards account of the clock incident
and the joking talk about a bomb.
The witness told also how Orchard
pointed out the Peabody residence and
The window where the governor sat-
saying, He reads there every night
Orchard explained TO him. he said. how
dynamite could be set off by means of
q clock, and demonstrated IL by an ex-
pertinent To Richardson Vaughn said
that he became very suspicious of
Orchard while they were together and
that reason induced him TO leave
Canyon City and go to Rocky Ford He
thought, as he expressed II, that
Orchard was 'fbughouse."
In some particulars Vaughn contra
dicted Orchards story. He declared
emphatically that it was good, straight
hail insurance that they sold, and that
il there was any fake about what
Orchard sold. it was put in by Orchard
himself Vaughn denied Richardson's S
insinuation that it was a profitable
business, and said that he made only
about 500 from it He also denied that
he had come here to testify for any
financial reason. saying that he re-
esrded il as his duty to come.