The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-26

sYou are just guessing about the matter, are your said Attorney flaw ley for the State, "and you are not sure about anythingTs
 T am only sure about it being Or chard," replied the witness.
 Ira Blizzard, of Cripple Creek, q rail- way conductor and yard master, was called to the stand as the first witness after recess. He said he knew Ster- ling and that the latter was in the employ of the mine owners associa~ ton and he had communicated with Sterling at the headquarters of the as- sociation. Blizard was contracting agent for the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad at the time of the h. dependence depot explosion. He imme- diately went there and saw lne wire and chair rung which served as clues.
 The defense claims that the Inde-' pendence depot was all but an aban- doned affair and that it's destruction might have been planned by others than the Western Federation of Min era
 What sort of a depot was it?' asked MT. Darrow of the witness.
 "The depot was in good condition" replied Blizzard
 Tt was 8 nice ap-te-date station with a good waiting room. It had platform HI front or IL
 Blizzard declared that the Indepen- dencs depot was used as a stopping place. but there was no ticket agent there.
 pr. McGee Testtfies.
 Blizzard was followed on the stand by pr. Al McGee, formerly physi- clan and surgeon in the Occur d'Alenes and now a mining broker.
 He said he had known Orchard since 1897, Orchard delivered milk at his house. The day of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mill explosions at Ward ner, McGee said, he thought he saw Orchard at Mullen-eighteen miles dis tant T am not sure of 1t, but if am not mistaken saw Orchard play ing poker that day in saloon or ci- gar store," said the witness.
 Dr. McGee also related converse ton he had with Orchard in the Occur d'Alenes in 1904. Orchard, according to the witness, said he was "spotting for a detective agency.
 On cross examination the witness said he saw Orchard at the depot one day at Wallace, Idaho, talking to man named Cunningham who said he wanted to blow up "scab" -arding house.
 Witness McGeo detailed the putting of bloodhounds on the track of the Independence perpetrators. At a wat CT tank he called up K. c. Sterling on the telephone
 Senator Borah objected to any con- versation between the witness as hearsay. He declared that the defense had the right to show that some one, other than Orchard. blew up the h. dependence depot, if it could, but the evidence must be competent and not hearsay.
 We expect to show" said Attorney K was responsible for the blowing up of the depot: that he knew all about 1t and we expect to connect Orchard with the mine owners association.
 Upon the showing the evidence will be submitted" declared Judge Wood.
 T called Sterling. up and told him replied: Call the dogs off; we know who did it. called the dogs off. Some days later I saw Sterling end he told me the reason he called the dogs off was that he knew who committed the
 On cross examination McGee said he did not know either Orchard or Ad- ans; that Sterling told him nothing about Adams other than he was the man who blew up the depot.
 Next came F. F. Redd. a miner now living at Goldhelds, Nevada. but for msFlY Psd 05 GrPRls creek Redd sad he while: In Union Hall at Cripple Creek in 1903 he said he had a conversation with orchard in which the latter called Gov. Steunenberg hard names and said he was responsible for his (Orchards) poverty and that he would get even with the governor.
 Mir. Darrow here precipitated a heat ed and long argument by asking the witness to detail his personal experf- ences in the Cripple Creek labor trou- bles. MT. Hawley voiced for the pros- ecution a strenuous objection, declar- ing the labor war in Colorado had nothing to do with the inquiry into the murder of Governor Steunenberg. He declared that the question was asked for the purpose of possibly arousing sympathy by showing that the Colorado militia may have done things that it ought not to have done.
 MT. Darrow in reply asserted that the prosecution could not pick out of the history of the last few years the isolated incidents 1t wanted to place before the jury, and then shut the de- fense off in it's purpose to present the other side of the case as to who was responsible for the acts complained of. MT. Darrow once more made the dec laration that if Orchard committed the crimes he has confessed to, he acted for some one other than the Western Federation of Miners. The whole his tory of the labor troubles associated with the Western Federation of Mind CTS could alone locate the resp0nsibil- ity, declared the attorney.
 Redd's Experience.
 Judge Wood allowed the witness to give his experience Redd said he was arrested in 1904 and taken aboard train at Cripple Creek where he was put in the bull pen" and held four days without trial and without any charge heinz made against him.
 Cross examination by MT. Hawley, Redd declared he was member of the Western Federation since the organi- Zation was formed. One day after the Independence depot explosion he was taken to the bull pen"
 Military officers were in control at the bull pen" where there were 150 men confined when the witness was ar rested. Asked if he did not know that the militia were merely Investigating the depot matter and as soon as they learned a man had nothing to do with 1t he was allowed to go, Redd said he knew nothing about 1t at all. The witness was at Clyde, Col, when ar rested He said he never had seen Steve Adams until he came to Boise