Show AHE mm STORY evidence introduced tending to show vindicator explosion PIOS 1011 was accident or 01 P of t th M nn mn n U i on M ners ew ern 1 eyed ac at tl M ne tells interest no story c I 1 the tragedy further test rest mony as to the ats its of bomhard d boise idaho the attorneys for william D haywood continue to ceu cen ter their efforts on the ilsc bisci alting of harry orchard and the establishment of their claim that orchard I 1 filed frank in revenge for the loss of his interests in tae the her cules mine on friday they directly direct lv attacked atta astaci cled ed the vindicator explosion with the testimony of a witness that made it appear accidental rather than criminal thomas wood a non unionist who entered the vindicator mine as a after the strike began swore the night before the ex he placed a box containing twenty five live pounds ot of giant powder at the shaft of the eighth level he saw the powder the next morning shortly after 10 0 clock and a few minutes later superintendent mccormick and foreman beck beek came to the eighth level they remained but a short time and left to go to the sixth level where they were I 1 billed wood swore that when he reached the shaft twenty minutes later the powder was gone and it Is a reasonable inference that and bed beet took it with them wood te testified stIfled that he had seen a revolver in becks beek s pod et that the fragments of only one revolver were found on the he sixth level and that the bodies of mccormick and beck were blown apart ind eating that uie the explosion had occurred between them orchard had said tilt he fixed a re volver with a wire attachment so that when the safet safety bar was raised it would send a bullet in the giant powder he hal hat placed one witness for the state has sworn that he later found a wire attached d to the safety bar but wood who was among the first to reach the sixth level after the elpio ion said that he carefully ex the safet safety bar and found nothing attached to it wood gave his testimony in a clear and forceful manner and told a thrilling story of the climb to safety of the men cut off b bs the explosion below the sixth level william easterly who concluded his testimony friday morning and D C copley who was called in the afternoon both swore that they heard orchard tell of the loss of the her cules mine and threaten to I 1 ill sheun enberg for it on cross examination I 1 I 1 the state schied them both and par ocular easter Easte nho ho received two letters and one telephone message from orchard on the air of the kill hill ing of for remaining when they knew a crime might be committed easterly contended that I 1 e did not know lived in caldwell and explained that although he knew thomas hogan was harry orchard he took no steps immediately after tae crime except to consult co counsel unel for the federation because he was not an informer and copley asserted that he did not take orchard seriously when they met in san francisco and he told him of the bradley crime there was a further showing as to the work of the bloodhounds at independence pen dence station which the defense aid went first to the house of a deputy sheriff and then thet down the road that orchard tool on his flight to demer denier and on to wyoming and denials and re denials from easterly induct and copley of any form of miscon biscon duct on the part of liae members of the western I 1 federation lede ede ration of miners |