| Show IT if ASOR OR WAS IT POWDER BlAT IliA T l LW LWI W I BADLY ONTO BOISE Idaho July 0 The The reading of or the depositions taken In San Franc Frano Francisc Fran Fran- c o In connection with the explosion n at tho the residence of ot Fred Bradley whom Orchard swears lie le twice attempted to assassinate continued this morning as one of ot the closing features of tho the side for tor the tho defense in the trial of ot William D. D Haywood accused of ot the murder of ot Frank Prank I By the State Slate the Bradley incident is isI I looked upon as one of the most important import import- ant features of ot their case in support of ot the Orchard story The d' d defense has ha all along maintained that the tho stories of the attempt to poison poison poi poi- son Bradley and his wh whole le household and the explosion at the house which Orchard says says was caused by a bomb placed by him are a fabrication Orchard Orchard Or Or- chard says says' that he was commissioned by Haywood to go to San Francisco and kill Bradley who had been a a consistent consistent consistent con con- enemy to organized labor He swore that he first poisoned the milk with arsenic and failing in this placed a bomb under Bradleys Bradley's front door mat with a string attached to the thedoor thedoor thedoor door handle handl It was according to Orchard Orchard Orchard Or Or- chard one of the bombs invented by Pettibone S At U the tho time given b by Orchard an ex explosion ex- ex occurred at the B Bradley adley house just lust as Bradley himself was coming out of the house hous smoking a cigar Bradley was terribly mangled but recovered recovered re reo re- re covered and the front porch of the house was badly damaged Shortly after the explosion tho owner of 01 the house sued the gas as company com corn pany for damages and got a Jud judgment ent bec because nse of an escape of gas which it was claimed caused the explosion Then came the Orchard Or hard confession and an appeal was taken against th the judgment judg ment meat but but- the higher court sustained the lower Thinks It Was Gas When the case against Haywood came up a commission was ap appointed togo togo to togo go to San Francisco and take taKo Fred Miller Iiller for the defense and Mr Van Duyn of the prosecution w wOre were re selected The depoi depositions ions are lengthy and the whole of the two sessions today today to to- day probably will be taken up in the reading Bradley maintains his first position position position tion that the explosion wa was caused by byas gas as but he modified his his' positive claim in that he says the theory of a bomb bombis is is possible He does not d deny ny that the milK was poisoned All of the witnesses witnesses' so far examined under the depositions however have admitted that the main features of Orchards Orchard's Orchards Orchard's Orchards Orchard's Or Or- chard's are within the bounds of possibility Orchard says that the bomb was placed under the door mat and ami Mr Bradley says that his face was wai filled with th the particles from the mat and with glass lass from the door It is not likely now that Moyer will go on the thO stand before tomorrow morn morn- lUg ing His Mis testimony will probably take te one vile day and aud on Thursday Th Haywood will be called His examination probably probably ably will take up the remainder of or of the week and the States State's rebuttal is hardly l looked oke for before next Monday In his testimony Bradley states that on the morning of ot the explosion November November No No- vember 17 17 1904 he started to leave leav his apartments about He ha hac haca bad bada a lighted cigar in his mouth as he be walked downstairs Bradleys Bradley's Story Immediately after atter placing my hand on the side knob door ao and of d tg the starting ar vestibule to epe open open said al the leB Bradley Bradley Brad outside outside out out- t ley there was a flash of light at the end of ot my Iny cigar I thought some one had been Joking me that I had been given a a trick cigar Next there was a deafening explosion My Iy first Impression Mon sion was that I had been shot in the head My next Impression was that I Iwas Iwas was as being asphyxiated and would die if it itI I did not get out I felt there was was a tremendous pressure holding me down Then there came a lifting mUng force torce and I Iwas Iwas Iwas was thrown out Into the street on the car tracks I knew I was on the car track for I remember m n feeling e I must get l Iw Ib c te fd r out of i the way or a car a would be along n nm The attorneys who took 0 Bradley's Bradleys ly testimony testimony J r m mony asked how bow long a space of time there was between the flash at the end of ot the cigar anc and the explosion I had time to think I had bad been given givena a trick cigar was waa the r reply ply Bradle said he s saw nothing of a newspaper P Pon he hev hea l string or r e in the v vestibule o oon or oron on the door S Asked if it he smelt the gas at the time of ot the explosion Bradley said he did after being smashed to the floor door He added that he was familiar with the smell of exploding powder and n dynamite t but could detect f tt the Wt fumes e of neither m at t the g time of the explosion He Ue Ie had smelled gas for tor some time previous to the explosIon explosion sion don and Mrs Bradley had complained to the gas company about the matter Bradley declared he was never president of ot the Mine Owners' Owners association of ot California Call Call- fornia and had never a attempted out of t a California lI the e Western ee fe Federation Federation Federa Federa- e tion of ot Miners or Its members Hes He's in doubt Now Senator Borah Bot-ab relieved Mr Darrow In reading the cross examination cross of ot Mr Bradley In this portion of ot his hi testimony Bradley said he be was not sure whether he had stepped across the threshold when the explosion occurred The outer door contained a a. long panel of plate glass glaes Particles of ot glass and bits of ot rock and vestibule tiles were found In his eyes a and t face and t there were bristles ri t r na f fue fueri blown n Into o his t face These e bristles were supposed d to be from the door mat l T Asked if be had smelled m l gas the mornIng morning morn- morn Ing lug of ot the explosion explosionS Mr Bradley said he be did not A week or so prior to the explosion Mrs Bradl Bradley Y had complained of smelling gas ga on the stairs when the witness hime himself himself him him- self could smell nothing o I There e it had l been general e complaint r In the Ke house about the escaping gas Further examined cross-examined Bradley said he felt two distinct forces the first crushing him down and the second lift lift- liftIng Ing big him up The Interval between gave him time to think he be was shot In the head to feel teel If It his ears had been blown off orf and to think that he was in danger of asphyxiation The latter feeling he be was sure came from illuminating gas Toward the conclusion of ot his deposition Mr Bradley said that that his first belief that the explosion was was was' caused by the gas had been considerably ld b modified by Orchards Orchard's d S confession leis and the he other testimony testimony mony offered On the subject After Atter the Bradley deposition that of ot Percy Cummings who occupied one of ot the Linforth flats fiats In San Francisco was read Cummings Cummings' left the house Just be t fore the explosion and deposed that he saw no bomb at Bradleys Bradley's door Cummings Cum Cum- testified that had the bomb been there he would undoubtedly have seen It ft On cross examination cross examInation Cummings said he did not remember seeing the door mat at Bradleys Bradley's door and that he was was' not paying particular attention to Bradley's Bradleys door and the vestibule of ot the fiats flats The next d deposition tI t to be read was th that r of t nJ J. J B. B Riley E who o resided near ir the Linforth flats flats' S' S In San Francisco C He passed r the fL Linforth building ten minutes before t the explosion an and testified that he saw a Japanese servant wash washing ng the marble marbles s stairs tal rs |
