The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
JUDGE SHOWS BOMB IN COURT
GODDARD DISPLAYS MACHINE
ORCHARD SET FOR HIM.

Colorado Justice Verines story Of Attempt
20 Blow Him Jp-IetterH Of Fedora.
tons Friends Commencing Orchard
as an Honest Mar Put In ~ Evidence.
BOISE, June lo.-Luther NJ. Goddard.
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court
Of Colorado, took the witness stand this
afternoon in the trial Of William d. Hay
wood and told how he saw the bomb dag
up which Harry Orchard had planted a.
his very gate nine months before.
He told what the bomb contained. ideuli-
fed the various portions Of it that were
produced in court and described how the
dynamite with which the continuance was
loaded was exploded in his presence in n
suburb OF Denver in May Of last year.
When the bomb was dug up it's various
parts we're enclosed in envelopes in Judge
Goddard's presence. carefully sealed u in
envelopes or wrapping paper, deposited
in a safety deposit vault and from thsrs
were brought to Idaho to be reopened by
Judge Goddard himself in court to-day.
One envelope that the Judge opened
contained a dozen giant CAPS. As he
fumbled with the envelope one OF the GA 3
fell upon the floor. Lawyer WhitzelI. who
is assisting the defence. stopped. picked il
W. duu leblOIcu IL 10 in6 JuuBc.
MORE C~oRRoBoRATION OF ORCHARD.
Further proceedings OF the day con
Guided perfect confederation Of parts of
Orchards testimony relating to his stay in
San Francisco, where he went to kill Brad
ley, and to his employment in Colorado
as an insurance agent for the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York. The
latter c~orroDoration was furnished by John
l.. Stearns, the Mutual's general agent in
Ilan A nNA hp documents uuhtnh nm.
from his Office. One OF these is a letter of
recommendation for Thomas Hogan. as
Orchard then called himself, in the hand
writing of George A. Pettibone.
IL will he remembered that Orchard teS-
titled that it was at Petitioners suggestion
that when he went TO Canon City to kill
Gov. Peabody he should get a job as an
insurance agent wherewith TO cloak his
doings in Peabody's home town. Orchard
accordingly. he said. went to Stearns,
asked for the job and gave several names.
including that OF Pettibone. as references.
All these men wrote certificates OF charac-
ter for Orchard. Petitioners is especially
significant TO the character Of the man. n
confirmed jester, as his friends knew him
TO be. His letter WAS dated April 8, 1905.
and was written on the letterhead Of his
household goods store. where much Of the
murderous plotting described by Orchard
is said to have been carried on.
PETTIBoNE, TIKI JESTER.
Here il what Pettibone wrote:
John l.. SfCdrns, CiLg.
DEAR SIR: In reply to your letter Or The
18th. in refer snce TO Thomas Hogan. Yes.
! am acquainted with Hogan and | am hlso
getting acquainted With YOU. II any more
Of my agents apply 10 Won for positions YOU
would do ms Il favor by showing them the
nearest way TO the sidewalk. Ms can use all
these fellows very handlly mytlf. Yours truly,
q. A. PFTTTBoNE.
Closer and closer the State is bringing
Orchard to Pettibone. Haywood and Meyer.
Note the certain implication Of this letter
that Orchard was an agent OF PettiboDe.
The implication that Orchard was a good
man To hire is scarcely less strong. Al any
rate. Mr.. Stearns did hire Orchard at once.
A shaft that got under Lawyer Richard
sons skin more deeply than anything that
this case has yet brought out was the recon-
mendation written by his own law partner.
H. n. Hawkins. in reply to one written
Orchard. and il should he borne in mind
that Orchard testified that all the men who
gave him letters OF recommendation know
perfectly we'll that his name was not Hogan
at all.
LAWYER CodMESDs
The letter that Jared Lawyer Richardson
SO badly when il WIS read TO the jury il
written on the letterhead OF Richardson and
Hawkins, and runs this way:
DENVER. April g.. 1905.
To John h.. Sfeorns, Manager Mutual Life In
surdncs Company Of NeT York:
DEAR SIR: With respect to your in Quiry
with reference to Mr.. Thomas Hogan will
say that have known him for n consider able
period Of time and esteem him in every way
a. " 80 Of integrity. His habits. 50 far
Is have had oCt aalUn TO unS-i5s them. are :
of the best. and in general know nothing
whatever detrimental TO his character. I
am glad TO recommend him for the position. |
Yours truly. HORACE y. HAWKINS.
j. Z. Sullivan. then president Of the State
Federation 81 Labor. wrote MIR. Stearns
that he knew one Thomas Hogan, had
known him for three or four years and
that his integrity was 'unquestioned.'
Henry Cohen, a Denver lawyer, wrote to
the same effect. These we're the four men
Orchard said Pettibone told him to give as
his reference.
MINERS MAGAZINE OFFERED.
When court opened Senator Borah started
TO offer in evidence a large number OF copies
Of the Miners Magazine. They contain
editorial and other articles Of a highly in
iammatory character, some Of them with
reference to ex-Gov. Steunenberg himself, |
and the State will contend that they show
beyond a doubt the existence OF luminosity
on the part of the officials Of the Western
Federation Of Miners toward its opponents