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Show NEARINQ THE END. Prosecution In Haywood Caso Will Finish With Witnesses During the Week. Boise, Idaho, In support of Its caso against William I). Haywood, chnrsed with the murder of Frank Stounen-burg, Stounen-burg, tho stuto qn 'Saturday subiplttcd to, tho Jury the testimony of nn oven dozen witnesses tending to confirm sovornl details of tho story of Harry Orchard, and at adjournment nn-nouned nn-nouned that It 'would closo Its cbbo during tho week. Among Saturday's witnesses wero former Governor Pcnbody and his 'daughter,. Miss Cora Peabody, but net-thoriw'ns. net-thoriw'ns. on tho stand H'ery long. It wnaaritlclpated' Unit tho defense would oxtendedly cross-oxnmlno Governor Gov-ernor Peabody nnd open tho cntlro contention Involved' In tho' Colorado labor law, but a noon recjss conference confer-ence of tho united counsel for tho do-fenso do-fenso decided that Ufwould bo, better Jo rofrala from, doing so.. Agalimt n sustained llro of objection nnd motions to strike out nnd along n record paragraphed with exceptions by tho defbnSo of tho rulings of Juugo Wood, tho prosecution succeeded In securing tho ndmlsslon or much evidence evi-dence bearing on points of Orchard's tale. First thero was 11 showing that Stovo Adams, stranded at Ogden In June, 1903, on tho way homo from California, where. It Is alleged, ho Went tOiklll Hradloy, vent u telegram to liny wood at Denver for money. Next It showed by tho orlglnuls of six drafts on Now York banks, llvo 01 whch wore purchased at thu First Natlonnl bank of Denver by liny woo hlmsolf, that, durlnj; 1001, ll)0C und 1000 inonoy wns frequently rohiltted by Haywood to I,. J. Slmpklns, former member of tho oxocutlvo board of tho Western Federation ot Miners, who, ns "Simmons," camo tp Culdwell with Harry Orchard and nssistod In tho first attempt to kill Steunenberg. The Inst draft, sent In January, after tho murder, was cashod by Mrs. Slmpklns, presumably nfter Slmpklna hnd fled. After that camo tho production of tho shattered nnd twisted fragments of the dovlco by which the Vindicator bomb was sot off, nnd this led to an extended Inquiry by tho deforibo into conditions and events centering nhout Cripple Creek during strike nnd martial mar-tial law days. Tho defense tried to fchow that thero hud been unwarranted unwarrant-ed deportation of union miners, thnt tho stores had been looted, that 1 agents of tho mine owners hnd committed com-mitted acts of vlolenco nnd Incited 1 others lo violence, thnt union miners had been Hogged nnd driven from their homes, nnd (hat pence officer. controlled by the ;nliieowner8 had employed em-ployed deputies who were gun-fighters, thugs nnd ci lmln iIh. i Next tho stiifo completed the legal history or tho Peabody bomb, first by showing that It wns dug out of tho Ice In Hut Cocnr d'Alcno river, then that It was brought to Holso and taken on to Denver, nnd lnstly by Identifying I Its nasltiK In court by tho plumber who made It. Tho Peabody family was present during this testimony and watched tho bomb cover every moment that it was displayed before thu witness Htand. Then the state once more took up tho general fhrend ot Orchard's story and succcMslvely offered tho testimony testi-mony of Miss Peabody to tho Incidents rolnted by Orchard whoro ho find Stevo Adams followed tho Peabody carriage home, tho evidence of Governor Gov-ernor Peabody that he hnd seen Orchard In Cnnon City und thnt ho had repaired his homo ns Orchard testified, testimony showing that at various times In 1D05 Haywood, Pet-tlbone Pet-tlbone and Odchard wero scon together, togeth-er, n general conflrmutlon by Wllllnm Vnughn of tho trip that Orchard ann Vaughn made to Cnnon City, nnd lnstly proof that Stovo Adams was at Pocntcllo In Soptembcr, presumably totimect aud throw "Pottlbono dopo" nt n c'urlond of non-union miners. k .... |