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Show I -JUSTICE GODDiD TELLS OF THE FINDING OF A BOMB ' Colorado Jurist Present When Detec tives Dug Up Infernal Machine Placed at His Gate by Orchard. ncsdny rondo dramntlc production i nnd proof of the Ooddnrd bomb, and Y besides offering further contribution of tho testimony of Hnrry Orchnrd against William I). Haywood, bo- surcd a ruling under which a num ber of tho denunciatory nrtlclcs pub-I pub-I llshcd In the Miners' Magaziun, of- ! Bclnl organ of tho ycBtern Fedora- jj" lion of Miners, will bo admitted In a fvldence. I Tho votornn Colorndo Jurist testl- fj Bod that tho first Information that ho p received about tho bomb came to him b from Orchard's confession, which was fhown to him nt Denver on February ? J3, 190C, by Detective McPnrland. Ho ) at onco r'oturned to his homo nnd In . his gnte discovered' tho scrow-oyo 6 which Orchard said ho placed tboro. jr It was rusted nnd corroded by ten 8" month's exposure Tho witness said ho examined tho ground ouWdo tho M gnto whoro Orchurd said ho placed '1" tho bomb and found a slight dopros- , slon with tho soil packed very hard My around It. 6 Tho bomb was dug up tho next day r by aencrnl Bulkloy Wells whllo us-1 us-1 - Ing n packctknlfo to cut tho soil f away, and raised tho plno box con-f con-f talnlng tho bomb. There was a small f. phial on top of tho box, nnd attached m: to tho rubbor cork of tho phial was a pleco of rusted wire. If The bomb and Us attachments wcro WA at onco taken to tho oluco of tho Pink-MS Pink-MS erton detectlvo agency nnd carefully ' sealed In wrappers and envelopes that mt wero signed by half a dozen wit-WA. wit-WA. ncsscs. Including Judgo Ooddnrd, nnd Hf , after that they wcro placed In a vault to tho door of which flvo seals, In. j- eluding that of a notary public, wero K Mtached. Thcro thoy rested until tho St following May 22, when, bollovlng tho D Haywood enso was to como to trial, I I. - they wero removed In tho presenco of '.ho Bamo witnesses nnd all savo throo f tho forty sticks of glnnt powdor rontalned In tho bomb were exploded. Tho oxploslons occurred In tho pros-,u pros-,u ence of the witness at a point In tho suburbs of Denver, nnd of tho bomb Itself twelve glnnt caps and two wrappers wrap-pers torn from stocks of giant powder wcro saved as evidence. ; Scnntor Borah produced sovcral H) packets as thoy wero originally scaled, and commencing with tho phial passed them to Justice God- , dard, who broke tho seals and Identl- fled tho articles. After tho phial came tho llttlo scrow-oyo, then tho dozen glnnt caps, and last tho now. dor wrappers. Attorney Itlchnrdson and Darrow for tho dqfenso objocted to all tho evldonco nnd all tho cxi Mt hlblts, and moved to strike out every. M thing, but tho court ruled against them all along tho lino. |