The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-14
REAL BOMB DROPPED
Haywood Defense Is Given
Shock by Prosecution.
WITNESS TELLS OF 0UTRAGES
Former Union Miner Cerrob0rafes
Orchards Testimony Regarding
blowing Up OF Bunker Hill and
Sullivan MIII-PrOceedinE I'm Al
legged Perjury Begun by the Court.

Boise, Idaho. July 13.-There has been
great deal Of testimony about bombs
in the course of the Haywood murder
trial. bat a real one was dropped in the
camp of the defense this afternoon, when
the State. in the course of its rebuttal,
produced witness who testified that he
was one of the union miners who went
with the armed and masked mob that
stole a railroad train April p, 1893, intimi-
dated the train crew. and went 10 Ward
ner Idaho. where they blew up the Bunk
er Hnl and sullivan Mil. killed two men.
and drove out the aonunion men in the
mill
This man 3 William Dewey. He is now
a nOnunion miner. and has been one
since the Cripple Greek strike. When
that strike began he left the union and
has ever since been a nonunion miner
with intervals of two years, when he was
serving as marshal in the town Of Victor.
in the Cripple Creek district.
At present he is employed 10 the Victor
mine, where Mccormick and Beck We're
killed in 1903 by a bomb which Orchard
cdl UllOu AtdUtiSs GItA4AAnk " +
Davis. got him to plant
Dewey COrrObOrates Orchard.
Dewey told the court and the jury that
this same w. f. Davis. better known as
Big BIZ Davis, handed out arms to-the
miners in the union hail In Gem, April
O. 1889. and that he led the men who
marched on the Bunker Hin and Sullivan
mills when they were blown up: in short.
that Big Bill was the general commanding
the union forces. He tuily corrOborated
everything that Orchard said about Davis
in connection with the Wardner outrage,
except In enc particular. Orchard said
that Davis was not masked on that day,
while Dewey said that he wore a mask.
It may be recalled that when Big Bill
took the stand in the case TO deny that
he had hired Orchard to blow up the
VindicatOr mine, he was cross-examined
bv Senator Borah about the WaTdner
riot and murder, and fatty denied that
he went down from Mullan to Wardner
that day. The cross-examination con-
vinced everybody in the court that Davis
was lying DeWey's testimony mainly
confirmed that impression. but did it in
manner that was vividly convincing.
In addition to Dewey the State produced
witnesses who completed the destruction
of the value of the testimony given by
John Elliott, who told of hearing Orchard.
Just before Steunenberg was killed, say
that a plot was under way to put the
Western Federation out of business. and
also examined a witness who testified
that another witness who swOre that
Orchard was in Mullan on the day the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill was blown
up. had told him four days after that
explosion that he had not seen Orchard
in over month; but the Dewey testimony
was easily the feature Of the day.
It was the first time that any one of the
conspirators who took part in the famous
Wardner riot had told his story publicly,
with the sole exception of Orchard him
self Paul Corcoran was tried and con
victed of murder in the second degree Tor
his participation in that affair, served
part of his term, and was then pardoned
out