Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-20
EVIDENCE AGAINST
DEFENSE DAMAGING.
Letters Finally Admitted as Evidence. Mag
azine Articles Occupy Attention
of Attorneys.

Last Wednesday Attorney Rich
ardson continued the cross-exami-
nation of Harry Orchard. He
started in with the plot to kill Pea
body whom Orchard said Meyer was
very anxious to get out of the way.
Haywood also told Orhcard that if
Peabody was gotten out OF the
way perhaps the man who took
his place "would not feel like fol-
lowing in Peabody's footsteps. -
After Orchard had talked with
Meyer he talked with Pettibone in
his store. 1t was then that Petit
bone suggested that Orchard take
out life insurance agents con-
tract; and that he should use that
as blind while studying the habits
of Governor Peabody at Canyon
City. Pettibone helped Orchard
get recommendations, one of which
was given by MIR. Hawkins, Rich
ardson's law partner, so that he
could get the insurance contract
and went to Canyon City. He stay
ed there some time watching for a
chance to shoot Peabody, but was
afraid to do so because it was so
small a place that he thought that
he could not get away without be-
ing seen. Then he prepared a
bomb, but about that time Peabody
remodeled his house and changed
his usual place OF sitting by a
certain window where Orchard
intended to plant the bomb. Then
Orchard went back to Denver, and
il was at this time that the Gabbert
bomb and the Goddard bomb were
planted. Orchard said that the idea
of these bombs was Pettibones.
They were made in the basement of
Petitioners store. After the failure
of the attempts to get Gabbert and
Goddard, Orchard said they tried to
get Sherman Bell. Pettione took
Orchard out to Bells home several
times when Orchard tried to shoot
Bell. But where Bell sat it was
dark and where Orchard had to go
was light and whenever he went
near the house some little dogs
came out and barked. He said that
he went out every night for about
twelve nights; that Pettibone held
the team down the street while he
went up to the house. Orchard
said one of the horses they drove
was gray mare which he said
was too conspicuous. He said
Haywood told us to buy another
horse and buggy to use in the
Sherman Bell affair. Soon after
this Meyer returned from California
and he vetoed the plan to kill Bell.
He ordered that no more jobs be
pulled off in Denver. Right after
this there was meeting at head
Quarters at which Pettibone, Hay
wood and Meyer were present. 1t
was here that the first plans were
made for Orhcard to go to Idaho
and kill Steunenberg. The meeting
had been arranged for by Meyer.
At this time Meyer spoke of getting
John Neville because he knew too
much about the independence de-
pot affair. But Haywood spoke up
and said that he would rather see
Steunenberg got out of the way
first. Meyer then said that he had
sent Art Bastian, Steve Adams,
MINER and McCarty to kill Steun-
enberg, but that they had all failed.
Pettibone thought that II would be
hard to get Steunenberg. Orchard
said, ''they asked me what
wanted to go on the trip to Ne
vada and kill Neville, go on to Ida
no and kill Steunenberg and get
back to Denver-how much for ex-
penses-and l told them that l
needed $500 anyway. After that
Haywood handed him S240. He
had given him $40 on one occasion
before that, and Pettibone had paid
him $40. A short time after this
Orchard started for Idaho. his
trunk had been in the baement OF
Pettibone's store. 1t was packed
there, the Peabody bomb being put
in it and then it was checked to
Nampa. Orchard said that he stay
ed several days in Salt Lake and
then went to Nampa where he stay
ed several days. There he learned