The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
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Evidence Brought Forward by
the Haywood Defense.
Shows Mine Owners Knew Who
Blew Up the Depot.
1T WAS STEVE ADAMS.
Witness Says Detective Sterling
Told Him So at the Time.
Whole History Of Labor War Is
Being Dragged In.

Boise. Idaho, June 26.-Ira Blizzard, oil
Cripple Creek, a railway conductor and
yardmaster, was called to the stand as
/ the first witness after recess. Tuesday
in the Haywood trial.
Did you testify before the United
States commission appointed to inves-
tigate the Cripple Creek disturbances? p
asked Mr.. Darrow.
/ mo sir" replied the witness.
do you know J. c. Sterling -
Yes sir
The witness said he understood Ster-
ling was in the employ of the Mine
Owners Association and he had COM
municated with Sterling at the head
| quarters of the association. Blizzard
| was contracting freight agent of the
| Floren nee & Cripple Creek railway at the
| time of the Independence explosion. He
Immediately went there and saw the
wire and chair rung which served as
| clues.
The defense claims that the Independ-
| ence depot was all but an abandoned
affair and that it's destruction might
| have been planned by others than the
/ Western Federation of Miners.
What sort of a depot was it?" asked
Mr.. Darrow, of the witness.
THE depot was in good condition, -
replied Blizzard TT was a nice up-to-
| 1t had platform in front of it,.
Blizzard declared that the Independ-
| ence depot was used a stopping
place, but there was no ticket agent
there.
The witness next told of putting of
the bloodhounds on the trail of the
men who were supposed to have perpe
trated the outrage. The prosecution OBJ
jected on the ground that the dogs had
not been qualified but Judge Woods al
detailed the route taken by the dogs,
who went towards Colorado Springs At
a water tank BLIZZARD called up c.
Sterling on the telephone. Senator
Borah objected to any conversation be-
tween the witness and others as hear
say. He declared that the defense had
the right to show that someone other
than Orchard blew up the Independence
If it could, but the evidence must be
competent, and not hearsay.
1t WAS Steve Adams.
1--WE expect to show" said Attorney
Darrow in reply, that K. c. Sterling
was responsible for the blowing up of
the depot, that he knew all about it
and we expect to connect Orchard
with the Mine Owners association
Upon that showing the evidence
will be submitted" declared Judge
Wood.
ct called Sterling up and told him
the dogs were on a good, safe trail.
who did it, 1 called the dogs off.
Some days later L saw Sterling and he
told me the reason he called the dogs
off was that he knew who caused the
explosion; that it was Steve Adams
On cross examination Blizzard said
he did not know either Orchard or
Adams, that Sterling told him nothing
about Adams other than he was the
man who blew up the depot.
BLIZZARD was followed on the stand
by DIR. A. L. MCGEE. formerly a physf-
clan and surgeon in the Occur
d'Alenes and now a mining broker.
where do you live?" asked Oar
row.
ION Occur d'Alene lake"
fright in the water-on a boat"
replied the witness amid laughter. He
said he had known Orchard since
1897. Orchard delivered milk to his
house.
The day of the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill explosion at Wardner
MCGEE said he thought he saw Or
chard at Mullen, eighteen miles dis
tant.
Orchard Miles Away.
at am not sure. but if 1 am not mis-
ten 1 saw Orchard playing poker
that day in saloon or cigar store
said the witness.
DR.. MCGEE also related a conversa-
ton he had with Orchard in the Occur
d'Alenes in 1904. Orchard, according
to the witness. said. he was "spotting''
for detective agency.
On cros5 examination the witness
said he saw Orchard at the depot one
day at Wallace, Idaho, talking to a
man named Cunningham. Orchard
claims he gave the Peabody bomb to
a man named Cunningham who said
he wanted to blow up a ''scab'' board
ing house. The witness positively fixed
the time of his conversation with Or
chard as the latter part of July, 1904
d. C. Scott, who came to Boise in
behalf of the state, was called to the
stand to establish the identity of K c.
Sterling. who it was claimed was a
secret service man in the employ of
the Mine Owners association in 1908.
and several years thereafter. Next
came F. r. Redd a miner now living
Cripple Creek. Redd said he had
known Harry Orchard a long while,
In union hall No. 40 at Cripple Creek.
in 1903. he said he had a converse
tion with Orchard in which the latter
called Governor Steun enberg hard
names and said he was responsible
for his, Orchards poverty and that he
would get even with the governor. Mr..
barrow here precipitated heated
ana lengthy argument by asking the
witness to detail his personal expert
ences in the Cripple Creek labor
troubles. Mr.. Hawiey voiced for the
prosecution a strenuous objection. de-
clarfng the labor war in Colorado had
nothing to do with the inquiry into the
murder Of Governor Steunenherg. He
declared the question was asked for
the purpose of possible arousing sym
psthy by showing the Colorado militia
may have done things it ought not
have done.
barrow Wants Whole Story.
Mr.. Darrow in reply asserted that the
prosecution could not pick out of the
history of the past few years the isola-
ted incidents it wanted to place before
the jury and then shut the defense off
in its purpose to present the other side
of the case and show who was respon-