Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-10

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY

country to Utah, and believe now that
ne Is not implicated In the murder,
and that he Is not bad man. He was
pleasant. Jovihl man. and | have al
was known him as that kind. / am
willing TO tell everything | know about
him here, but | know absolutely MOTH
ing that would help out making a case
against him. Last Friday "A sergeant
OF the police force took me over TO see
the chief OF police, and he talked to me.
After l had told him everything knew
he said he believed me- and that my
story was straight After that SER
gennt told me there was S2S.500 In II If
| knew anything, and told him |
couldn't tell anything to help prove
Orchard was guilty IL there was
million in 1t. because ! didn't know
anything"
LAST NIGHT IN SALT LAKE.
When asked to give In detail the last
evening In Salt Lake OF Orchard. Doo-
Ian went on: I'VE went to a party
at the hall of the Maccabees, and en-
Joyed ourselves there until IL o'clock,
when We left so that Harry could get
ready to go. We went to his room.
at the Cullen. He changed part Of
his clothes, and he and | then went
down to the depot. He already had
his ticket, but he paid storage on his
trunk, which had never been taken
away from the depot. Harry told me
he had not taken II away because he
didn't know how long he would stay,
and he paid his room rent by the day
for the same reason. After he checked
his trunk and paid the storage we
walked up South Temple street talk
no IA
He never watched the trunk, nor was
he nervous about II. When it was
nearly train time, we went to his berth
together. and | said goodbye to him
there.
NO SALOON MEETINGS.
"Now Harry didn't know many peo-
pie here. | was with him till after
midnight often, and | never saw any
mysterious stranger nor did | see any
other close friends, as | have been
quoted as seeing. II was also said
made appointments with Harry
IN saloons. Now ! never made
an appointment with him be-
cause alway knew where
could fnd him. He would be either
az the Cullen or at the Gift House. He
played slough n great deal, and | play
ed with him to pass the time away, as
was then out Of work. We played %ith
Just those drummers and people who
usually play. You will find them now
IN the back rooms of the cullen and the
Gift House, If YOU look for them. None
CO them were men We knew particularly.
Harry ate his meals at Sperry and
Mehses and at Kid Bray's. on Second
South street, and spent the rest of his
time around the two hotels or on Main
street.
NEVER FISHED TOGETHER,
Now they quote me as saying went
fishing with Orchard, but didn't know
where he bought the fishing tackle.
never was arrested in my life but once,
and that was for tishing, and 1t was the
only time | ever tished, and II wasn't
with line either. 1t was years ago.
down in Provo, and ! had pitchfork
in the mill race that runs through the
town, Orchard and never went Ash
ing. and he never had any fish lines
ever heard of.
!. ~. THEIR FIRST MEETING,
I'VE met In Salt Lake as said
ia 1899. and he was then working at
the Bingham mining camp. They quote
me as saying he told me about Cour
d Alene, and said he was arrested there
| never asked him about his life before
| met him, ana / never said he was
arrested there.
"All know about II Is that he came
here first In 1850, and worked at Bing-
ham and at Alta In Little Cottonwood,
and that he left Cour d'Alene at the
time of the strike, because he was out
of work.
CAME BACK TO UTAH.
I'm 1892 Orchard and went on
trip together that made us good friends.
We struck out from Salt Lake for
Statelnc, and got job together at the
0phir mine. When We had worked
month. the mine closed, and we went to
Cripple Creek where we started to
work July |, 1902. was with him then
only three or four weeks as l moved
over TO Victor, and he stayed at Inde-
pendence. | met him. maybe five or six
times before / left with my wife the
next April, to return to Utah, on ac-
count OF the strike, which was then
brewing. and was just getting started.
] never saw him again until met him
on the street in Salt Lake Just a day
or so before Thanksgiving day.
Il invited him to our home for
Thanksgiving dinner. and he accepted.
also suggested going hunting, and
he wanted ~ do that. too He said
his gun and boots were in his trunk
at the depot, and we went down TO get
them out. We hunted ducks that day
az Johnny Lund's place, north OF the
Black sloughs, and afterwards we went
out three other times. once to White
lake, and twice up the Jordan from
Twelfth South to Murray
LIKED TO PLAY CARDS.
"On Thanksgiving day we returned
IN time for dinner, and had a good
sooiable time. He told me about the
Cripple Creek strike. and said he had
been rambling around the country in
Inherent mining comps since then. He
came TO Salt Lake from Denver this
last time, waiting for word / think.
from Spokane, and said he expected a
job there. He was married but was
separated from his wife, and he liked
TO play cards, not as "A gambler, but Just
to pass the time away.
BELIEVES HIM INNOCENT.
MY own opinion Is that Orchard was
not in this plot In Salt Lake, and that
n he had anything 10 do with IT, he
there certainly was no mystery about
his life here, or his room"
POLICE CORROBORATE DOOLAN.
Police Sergeant Hempel, who has
conducted the Orchard investigation,
was shown by the News" reporter the
statement of Mr.. Doolan as printed
above, and Sergeant Hempel said that
It was substantially what Doolan told
the police, and that his opinion OF the
case was similar TO that of Doolan's.
lie said he was convinced the trunk
,Nns at the depot all the time and tha.