Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-11

the other testimony offered on the
subject. Bradley corroborated Or
chard's testimony regarding the Bit
ter milk. Linforth maintained that
the, explosion had been caused by
defective gas fixtures. He said
that there was only one explosion
and there was no smell OF powder
after wards. He said that the re-
port could be heard for five miles.
He said that he found no PARTICLES
OF lead around the premises such as
he would have found had there been
a lead pipe blown to pieces. He
said that employees of the gas COM
pany found defective meter which
had been leaking. This was about
month after the explosion. A
short deposition by Percy Cummings
was read. He testified that he LETT
the house a short time before the
explosions That he did not see any,
thing on the steps or proch when he
went out. However he said that
he went out a side door and might
not have seen anything there even
if it had been there. A deposition
of J. B. Riley was read. He liv-
ed near the Linforth flats and
Just before the explosion he had
been at grocery store across the
street. He passed the house few
minutes before the explosion and
saw the Jap cleaning the porch.
He had not gone more than $40 feet
when he heard the explosion.
On cross examination he said that
man might have slipped up to the
porch and placed a bomb there but
he did not think that he could have
done so. He said that he got a
drink of whiskey at the store. That
Giubinny sold him the drink.
He was positive of this. However
Giubinny has testified that he was
! in bed at the time of the explosion.
The next deposition was that of
Mrs. Charles Picard. She was Mrs.
Grow at the time of the explosion
in the l. nforth flatms. She told of
/ the explosion and asid that she
I snelled gas in the house a short
time before that. In other matters
she corroborated Orchards tcsti-
mony in regard to having met him
and as to the bitter milk. Mrs.
Josephine Linfotth testified that the
lap said to her just after the expio-
sion that he came pretty near get
ting killed as he had just got away
from the steps when the explosion
occurred. John ]. Ecelman, a fire
man who went to the flats with the
hook and ladder company testified
that he shut off the gas. That
there was a strong odor OF gas in
the Basement. Several other men,
bers of the fire department were
called and testified to much the
same as the first. There were a
number of other depositiols of the
| contractor who built the flats,
Number who worked in repairing
the building after the explosion,
and others. Alvin S Gill was put
on the stand and testified that he
saw Orchard in Spokane in 1905.
That at that time Orchard said
that if it had not been for Stcu-
nenberg driving him out of the
Occur d'Alenes he would have been
:, rich man. Three was also a depo-
sition by w. A Abernathy to the
same effect.
Iohn |. Tierney, a newspaper man
of Denver, was called to the stand
after the reading of the depositions
had been concluded. He was call
Cd bv the defense for the purpose
of showing the political conditions
in Colorado during 1904-05. The
object of the defense was to show
that there were other people who
had strong feeling against the gov
ernor of Colorado and members of
the supreme court besides the West
ern Federation of Miners
A few minutes past ten O'Clock
cbas. H. Meyer, one of the accused
men. was called to the stand to tes-
+;fv for the defense. His testi-
mony Occupied the balance of the
dav Mover denied that he ever
had a conversation of any kind with
Harry Orchard regarding any GRIM