The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-28

Boise, Idaho, June 2S.-Immediate-
the prosecution recalled DIR. I. L. Nc
Gee, of Wallace, Idano. a witness for
the defense, whose cross examination
had been deferred. MCGEE had testi-
fed that he saw Orchard in the
Couer D'Alenes in 1904. On one oc-
paly with a man named Cunning
ham. Orchard claims to have given
the Peabody bomb to man of this
name. The prosecution today wanted
MCGEE to describe Cunningham. The
witness said he had seen the man
but twice. and then they almost came
TO blows over a political discussion.
MCGEE could not describe aim, and
when asked if he had a mustache re-
piled, Il don't know, but he had
gum"
Following MCGEE. w. B. Easterly
was called to continue his testimony
begun yesterday. He positively denied
that ne ever talked with Orchard as
to the Independence depot explosion.
Orchard was at Cripple Creek the lat
ter part of 1903 and first part of
1904. Easterly said he mined little.
but was a fiend at cards.
Easterly asserted that during the
Cripple Creek strike days there was
never any talk of violence at the
meetings of his union, except by a
visiting member The visitor proved
afterward to be a secret service man
employed by the mine owners. The
labor leaders, he said, always counsel
ed peace. saying that any disorders
which might occur would be atbrib-
uted to the union. Easterly went over
much of the ground covered yester-
day in the testimony of w. F. Davis.
He told of a meeting addressed .+,y
Moyer and Haywood, at which the
two accused men urged the miners
to maintain peace and order.
did you ever hear Meyer and Hay
presence that he could not go too
fierce a gait at Cripple Greek to suit |
him?" asked Darrow.
Il did not" replied the witness.
Easterly said he was arrested at |
Cripple Greek, las a matter of mill |
tary necessity and thrown into the |
"bull pen" for several days. He said |
he was at home in bed when the In |
dependence depot was destroyed, and /
did not know it had happened until |
the next day. He then went to Vic |
tor to the Union Hall where several /
hundred members of the Western Fed /
Grafton had gathered. In the after /
noon c. c. Hamlin. secretary of the |
Mine Owners Association, made a 1
speech in the streets in which he re-
ferred to the Independence depot ex-
plosion and said that fifty or more
of the leaders ought to be hanged
and the rest be driven from the dis
trict Then a shot was fired, and as
put dt, 'tthe fireworks be-
gan"
He aid that when the firing began
he went home. On the way ne stopped
OF the threats he had heard against
him and others. and that he had bet
ter protect himself When he got |.
home he armed himself with a repeat
ing shotgun and went to Goldfeld.
Colo, where there was TO be a meet
ing OF union men. There were not
more than 25 union men i'm the hall
at Goldfeld, he said. when the militia
srrived- The miners started for the
hills. A bullet struck within a foot
Of him. and splinter Of rock struck
him over the eye. He said that he
did not FIRE at the soldiers. as ne had
only a shotgun and d. would not Il
reach Easterly detailed his move
ments zfter crossing the hills. saying
ne reached Denver I'm q few days. and
then changed his name and left the
state. In 1905 he returned TO Denver
and on the way met Orchard and
vauhan at Pueblo. Orchard told him
mat he had made lots OF money sell II
ag life and hail insurance
LATER I'm the year ne was An Silver
City. Tdnno. where he met L.. J. Simp-
rdna. slmplins told Hmm that Orchard
waa in Caldwell sailing Insurance and