Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-11
mOYtR TAKES STAND
FOR DEFENSE.
Denies Nearly all of Statements Made by
Orchard. Never Hired Orchard to
do Criminal Acts.


continued July 5. Marian W. Moor
of McCabe, Arizona, a member of
the executive board of the Western
Federation, was the first witness
called. AS Mr.. Moor took the stand
Darrow announced that another |
member Of the executive board. [
Frank Schneider, was killed in Dem
yer Tuesday night while boarding
d train to come to Boise as a wit
ness. Owing 20 this unfortunate
circumstance Mr., Darrow said that
the defense might be compelled to
ask for a continuance. Mr.. Moor
testified that he took a letter to
Alaska FOR Orchard to mail from
there. Orchards excuse for having
him take the letter to Alaska to
mail it was that he wanted to get
rid Of his wife. Moor did not re-
member that he had inserted the
date in the letter. Orchard had
testified that Mr.. Moor dated it be-
fore mailing it. Mrs. Mike Fallon,
formerly the wife of KID Waters,
was called to the stand and after
a few questions was excused.
Ownie Barnes was then called. He
denied that he had ever had any
conversation with Orchard about
msking dynamite bomb. He said
that he never made bomb. The
next witness was Jacob Wolf,
former clerk for Pettibone and in
whose name letters containing mon
ey were sent to Orchard in San
Francisco. He said that many of
the Colorado miners while in Dem
yer made Pettibone's store their
headquarters. He had seen Or
chard there several times. He said
that he had seen Pettibone send
a letter to Orchard which contain
ed Orchards union card and
Masonic charm. He was not cross
examined Archie L. Harper and
his father, John Harper, of Boulder,
Colorado, were called and testified
to having been deported from Vic
tor. G. M. Houghton of Canyon
City said that he was running the
union store in Cripple Creek at the
time OF the depot explosion. He
was arrested and taken before a
military examining board. He said
They wanted to know if | would
do all that ! could to further the
interests OF the Western Federation
OF Miners if at liberty. Then some
one bshind me said: That's enough,
that's enough, take him to the Jail.
After short cross-examination he
was excused MIR. Darrow then an
nounced that with the exception of
one or two witnesses and Mover
and Haywood they were through.
They had some copies of depois-
tions taken in San Francisco, but
the originals had not yet arrived.
They asked for an adjournment un-
til Monday morning when they
would be ready to continue.
Monday and Tuesday were taken
up with reading the dispositions
taken in San Francisco, the prin-
cipal one being that of Fred w.
Bradley Walter H. Linforth, own
er of the building where Bradley
lived at the time of the EXPLOSION.
also testified to what he supposed
caused the explosion. He sued the
San Francisco Gas company for
damages claiming that it was caus-
ed by defective gas fixtures. In
his deposition Mr.. Bradley testified
that he smelled no gas in the hall
as he walked down the stairs from
his flat AS he turned the knob
and opened the door to go into the
street he said that there was a flash
at the end of his cigar and he
was smashed to the floor. Then
he smelled gas fumes and Thought
that he was being asphyxiated
Then came deafening exnlos;on
and he was lifted and thrown into
the middle of the street. He mar,
tanned that there were two dist;,c.
explosions. Toward the concIus;o,
of his deposition Mr.. Bradley sa;d
that his first belief that the
plosion at his house was ca,sad
by gas had been Considerably MOD
ified by Orchards confession a,d