The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-20
Veteran Jurist of Colorado
Identifies Internal Machine
Orchard Left at His Gate.
DEFENSE FIGHTS HARD
AGAINST COURTS RULING
Some of the Articles in Official
Organ of Miners to Go to
the Jury.

BOlSE, Ida, June 19.-lhe State
today made dramatic production and
proof of the Goddard bomb, and be-
sides Offering further confirmation of
the testimony of Harry Orchard
against William d. Haywood, secured
ruling under which q number OF the
denunciatory articles published in the
Miners Magazine, Official organ Of the
Western Federation of Miners, will be
admitted in evidence
To Justice Luther NJ 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 APP
pearance on the stand added another
TO the many dramatic scenes and situa-
| tons that have characterized the trial,
and his testimony was clear and
mlnutely circumstantial. The veteran
Colorado jurist testified that the first
information that he received about the
bomb came to him from Orchard s con-
fesslon, which was shown to him at
Denver on February l3, 1906. by De.
| tectiYe Mcfarland. He at once re-
turned to his home, and in his gate
discovered the screweye which Orchard
SAID he placed there 1t was rusted
/
The witness said he examined the
ground outside the gate where Orchard
said he placed the bomb, and found a
shgnt depression with the soil packed
very hald around it.
Wells Dug Up Bomb.
The bomb was dug up the next day
! by Gen. Bulklev Wells. who used a
pocket knife to cut the soil away, and
raised the pine box containing the
bomb. There was small phia on top
of the box, and attached 10 the rubber
cork OF the phisl was a piece of rusted
wire.
The bomb and its attachments were
! ar once taken TO the Office of the Pin
| kerton detective agency and carefully
! scaled IN wrappers and envelopes that
were signed by half a ,ozen witnesses,
including Justice Goddard. and after
that they were placed in vault. TO
the door of which five seals, including
that OF a notary public were attached.
! There they rested until the following
May p, when, believing the Haywood
case was 70 come to trial, they were re-
I moved in the presence of the same wit.
/ nesses and all save three Of the forty
| sticks of giant powder contained in
the bomb were exploded. The explo-
sions occurred in the presence of the
| witness at point in the suburbs of
| Denver and of the bomb itself. twelve
| giant caps and two wrappers torn from
sticks of giant powder were saved as
! evidence.
Dramatic Evidence Presented.
Senator Borah produced the several
| packets as they were originally sealed
| and commencing with the phlal passed
them te Justice Goddard, who broke
the seals and identified the articles At
! Ter the phial came the little screw eve.
/, l.,, h.. o,,NI 1o- ,.
! powder wrappers. Attorneys Richard
! son and Darrow for the defense OBJ"
iected to all the evidence and all the
| exhibits and moved to strike out every
thing, but the court ruled against them
all along the line.
Mrs. Seward at whose house IN San
Francisco Harry Orchard lived during
part of the time he was conducting his
! operations against Fred Bradley, gave
| testimony strongly corroborative of Or
| chsrd s account of his acts and eNper-
iences in San Francisco Besides con-
| firmiug Orchard : recital rs 10 time,
| movements and locations, she testified
that she found lead and wood sbavings
in Orchards S room and screw eye,
string and bottle attached TO the closet
door where Orchard had been experl"
uenting She said her lodger had a
vcrv heavy suit case and that she made
up her mind that he was an inventor.
Orchard as Solicitor.
John l. Stesrns, agent at Denver fss
the Mutual Life Insurance company
confirmed the story Orchard told about
securing employment as solicitor for
the company before he went 10 Canon
CITY TO kill former Governor Peabody.
and produced letters of recommends
ton which Orchard furnished in re-
sponse To his request One OF the let
tors WINS from George Pettibone r. CO.
defendant OF Haywood, and it made
iocular reference to the fact that
Stearns was taking many agents from
him and requested in the future, when
any Of his agents applied for work,
they be put out. Another letter was
signed by Horace N, Hawkins, partner
of Attorney Richardson of the defense,
and it gnve Orchard, then travelling
under the name of Thomas Hogan, a
very strong accommodation as to char
acfer. The defense objected TO the adj
mission of The letters. but the court
permitted their introduction as evil
dence.
Riley Harris, n Young man who
worked for Roach. the plumber, who
made the lead casing for the Pea
body bomb, told of the call of Harry
Orchard Mt Roach &c shop in Denver in
Nav. 1905, of the making of the cas-
ing and of the delivery of the article
To Orchard whom the witness identi-
fed.
The morning session was spent in ar
guing the admissibility of the editorials
and article published by the Miners
magazine, which the State offered late
Yesterday afternoon. Each side took
the Chicago anarchist cases as it's le-
gal guide and Justification, the defense
pleading that the legal propositions var
led, the prosecution that they were on