The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-10
MOYER MAY TESTIFY TO-DAY
rs LIKELY TO RE FOLLOWED ON
THE STAND BY HAYWOOD.
state Prepared To submit Much Evidence
In ItebuttaI-Many witnesses Already
On Their Way tn Bolse-More DepO-
sItIOns Read-Few Visitors In Court.

BOISE, July II. Meyer will
take the stand tomorrow to give an account
Of his stewardship as president OF the
Western Federation Of Miners.
That. at least. is the programme made
tonight by the counsel for William d.
Haywood. When Clarence barrow made
hs opening speech to the jury more than
q fortnight ago. he promised that Haywood
would be placed upon the witness stand
and that Meyer probably would testify,
though this vas not certain. II Meyer
~testifes his direct testimony will probably
take the better part of one court day. He
will he followed by Haywood, whose testi-
mony will take sven longer.
Before Meyer takes the stand. however,
n is likely hat Fred Miller. one Of the coun-
sel for the defence. will be produced 10
tell why he telegraphed Orchard Just after
the latter was arrested for the murder Of
S~teunenberg that he wa coming to his
assistance from Spokane. Orchard had
not t~elegraphed to Miller or to any one else
after his arrest.
The State will argue. Of course. that
Miller sent word that he was coming be-
cause he knew that Orchard was thick
with the federation leaders and because
Miller's law firm did a good deal Of work
for the federation in the Northwest,
To-day. like yesterday. was almost
wholly given v to the reading Of depo-
si,ions taken in San Francisco and dealing
almost exclusively with the attempted
poisoning Of Bradley and the explosion
that 40 nearly cost his life.
All the witnesses examined on this point
In San Francisco were called by the defence.
the State not being allowed to take deposit
tons. II is the contention Of the defence
that it was an explosion OF illuminating
gas that nearly killed Bradley. and they
examined the San Francisco witnesses with
n view to proving this contention.
Local interest in the Haywood trial has
waned steadily since the first week Of thu
defence testimony, and when % urt opened
this morning there were exactly seven
spectators in the court room.
-Gee!' said Deputy Sheriff Beerner. as
he chased his spitz terrier Babe out of the
court room. IF this goes on ever the Social
list reporters II be gfIvin' us the shake
Mrs. Crow. who used to be a cook in the
Bradley household, deposed that she knew
Orchard, or Barry as he then called him
self. and frequently saw him about the
house. He used to come up often TO deliver
things sent by III grocer across the street.
She heard only one explosion on Novem-
Der T. and had smelled gas about the house
two or three days before, but not on the day
81 the ex plosion.
She went on to say that she saw Orchard
nearly every day for a week. She could
not look out Of the window without seeing
him. There used to be a rug on the front
s'oop, but she never saw IL after the ex-
p%losion. Orchard had testified hat he
placed this rug or mat over the bomb when
he put it on the stoop, and Bradley testified
that the explosion blew some of the hair of
the mat into his eyes.
Several of the tenants in the Linforth
fats. where Bradley lived, deposed to the
effect that they had smelled gas around
the house several days before the explo-
sion, and all of them agreed thatthey heard
only one explosion.
Three San Francisco firemen told of
responding to the alarm that was turned
in after the explosion and of taking people
out of the house and turning of the gas at
the meters.
A doctor named Kelly, who occupied one
Of the flats in the Bradley building, told of
and seeing Bradley lying in the street. Il
told Mr.. Linforth TO watch him. he said.
because he looked like a tramp. thought
he might have been trying to blow up the
house and had been caught by the explosion
before he could get away. He was all oov-
cred with dirt and his clothes were badly
torn
The carpenter and the contractor who
repaired the house after the explosion de-
posed concerning the condition Of the halls
anu EOOll tUdJ ~ DCth odkiihBCN " tHC
explosion. Their testimony indicated that
there might AVE been an explosion Of gas
inside the house.
Nothing in the testimony taken forbade
the theory that the explosion Of a dynamite
bomb had set on the gas almost stimuli
taneously.
The carpenter and contractor were also
asked il IL would have been possible for a
man to ave climbed to the roof OF the fiat
house without getting inside the house first
anA rn,t,V ~ shrnatDh N 1LgVDht ThaU
agreed that Il would probably. have been
impossible. Orchard had told the jury
that the morning he put s~trychnine In
Bradley's milk he went up the back stairs
and climbed on the roof and waited there
until the milkman had brought the milk
6nd had gone away II ID understood that
Orchard has an explanation to make On this
point that will completely satisfy the jury.
HIS REORGANIZATION in this regard was
very vague. .
Still another deposition that had nothing
20 do with the Bradley affair was made
by W. A. Alternately. who said that he was
introduced in San Francisco to Orchard
by a Capt. Gamble, who was afterward
killed in the earthquake. He added that
Orchard cursed Steunenberg and threatened
lini and then offered to go to Idaho and
buy for him an interest in a silver and lead
mine " ne would put up 500 for expenses.
This offer he refused. Alternately. how
ever, failed to pick out Orchards photo
Ea'iHh h'"'h ~ '"@s
him.
Two witnesses were examined On the wit
hes stand to-day. The first was Allen +.
till. who said that he was once master
mechanic at a mine in Burke, Idaho. where
Orchard was then living Gill said no met
Orchard and Jack Simpkin on the street in
Spokane in November, 1906. and that
Orchard then cursed Steunenberg and
blamed him for his losing the Hercules mine.
On or about March %. 1899. the witness
SAID, Orchard had come to his wife in Burke
and tried to induce her To get him to buy
an interest in the Hercules mine
Mrs Gill gave testimony to the same
effect regarding Orchards proposal about
selling the Hercules mine.
senator Borah announced that the state
would claim the right to examine Orchard
on this point in rebuttal and the defence
said there would be no objection. Orchard
has all along maintained and still maintains
that he sold his interest in the Hercules
mine outright long before the Cour d Alene
troubles that Steunenberg suppressed. and
that therefore he never could have blamed
S'eunenberg for the loss Of his interest in
that valuable property. This contention
the state expects 10 establish fully by IN
dependent testimony.