The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-07-16
Testimony Offered in RebuttaI by
Defense in Haywood Case.
ARRESTED FOR PERJURY
Bradley Explosion Not Caused by Gas.
Heavy Bond for Aller.

Boise, July 15.-Another warrant
charging perjury against witness
who mad testified for the defense in
the case of the state Of Idaho against
VIM. d. Haywood, was issued this
evening. G. w. Aller, formerly tele.
graph operator and ticket agent at
the depot of the Florence & Cripple
Creek railway at Cripple, Greek, Colo,
is charged with the offense by the
prosecution. Aller was Immediately
arrested and held in $4,000 bond. The
preliminary hearing of the men will
take place within the next few days.
Witnesses in rebuttal were exam.
ined in the Haywood trial. Harry Or
chard reappeared on the stand and
was asked a few questions as to his
acquaintance with some of the wit
nesses for the defense, who have tes.
, titled as to his movements.
On being turned over for cross-ex.
animation, he admitted that his uncle,
Peter Mckinney, committed suicide by
hanging three Or four years ago. Coun-
sci for the defense asked Orchard il
his uncle was not insane before he
killed himself, and also tried to show
by the witness that his maternal
grandfather was insane, his mononaa-
mia being Imaginary crimes commit
ted long time ago in Ireland. Or
chard denied all knowledge of his
grandfather, but admitted that his
uncle was demented.
The entire afternoon session was
taken up with the examination of wit
nesses who contradicted the evidence
given by G. w. Aller, who testified for
the defense in support of the charge
of a conspiracy against the Western
Federation of Miners, in which, it is
alleged, the Mine Owners association,
the Citizens Alliance and the Pinker-
ton detective agency, were concerned.
Aller swore that he saw Orchard and
D. G. Scott together at the depot of
the Florence e Cripple Creek railway
on Sunday about three weeks prior
to the explosion at the independence
depot on the sixth day of June, 1904.
Scott this afternoon swore that he
was not in Cripple Greek at the time
and number of witnesses corroborat-
ed this. AS a result Of his rebuttal
testimony information was sworn out
after court adjourned, charging Aller
with perjury.
The explosion at the residence of
Fred Bradley in San Francisco was
again under discussion today, the
state undertaking to show that the eff
feet of an explosion of Illuminating
gas could not have been that described
in the dispositions taken for the de-
tense in San Francisco. The manager
of the Boise Gas company, G. d. Ian
son, who was at once time a resident
of New York, qualified as an expert.
He discredited the proposition that
gas could be ignited by the glow at
the end of cigar. He was cross-ex-
amined at considerable length by Mr..
Richardson and showed a close tech
nical knowledge of gas and it's possi-
bilities as an explosive. The general
effect of his evidence was that the
explosion at the Bradley house could
not have been caused by gas.
Much amusement was caused by a
wordy engagement between e. F. Rich
ardson and e. M. Sabin, an attorney
of Idaho Springs, Colo, Sabin was en-
gagged in the prosecution of number
of cases charging IA members of the
Western Federation of Miners with
crime and conspiracy during the labor
troubles of 1908. Mr.. Richardson was
the defending counsel in these cases.
There was a sharp exchange between
lnS IWUt Dul SnouSu Va 8OoN nuAAOA ~
put the court room into ripple OF
laughter. sabin intimated his will,
iagness to tell many things that Rich.
ardson appeared anxious to keep out
of the records and 1t kept Haywood's
counsel busy heading the witness
away from dangerous ground. Sahin
admitted that Richardson had beaten
him and cleared his clients, but he