Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-06-13

PROMISED TO CARE FOR HER IN
HIS ABSENCE.
Defense Trying to Cast Doubt Upon
Orchards Story, Which Is Re
viewed With Most Careful Detail
Advised by Leaders to Draw Up
on Strike Fund.

Boise, Idaho, June 1.-THE attack
of the Haywood defense on the testi-
mOny of Harry Orchard goes on unre-
m.tting'y, and the witness will prob
ably be continued on the stand for
| two full days more. Yesterday began
with the story of the dynamiting Of
Fred Bradley in San Francisco, ana
! the defense adopted a determined eli
! fort to expose several features of it
to douOt and imprObability and further
discreditng anG to Vitiate it all by re-
vealing the hand of the PiukertOns.
Then the play went back to Denver
! for the winter of 1904-Oj and the
spring following, and there was an ef-
| fort to show that Orchard had prac-
| tically no communication with the
| leaders Of the federation; that he re-
ceived no pay for the Bradley crime
or anything else, and that with Steve
| Adams. in the period of extreme power
| tv. he was reduced to the necessity Of
stealing a sheep from the GlObeViile
stock yards that he might have food.
Orchard confessed the theft of The
sheep. but denied that it was because
of want This GIobevi7Ie inquiry lie
veloped a more shocking crime. At
| this Denver suburb there was a diabOl-
tcaI plot-Orchard swore it was in.
spired by Max Malich, the defense
claimed Orchard was its authOr-t9
| dynamite a boarding house where l5O
Inon-uniOn men lived. and in prepara
ton for the murder en- bloc Orchard
| Adams and a man named Joe Mah"l
ich sto'e coo pounds of dynamite
which they Iugged home at night and
buried in the cellar. The crime was
abandoned. Orchard said. in one OF
those flashes that make his testimony
remarkable because Haywood inter
vened and forbade him to have any
thing to do with it. The defense
showed that from late in 1903 until The
riddle of 1904, Orchard continually
drew strike relief at Grippe Greek
! and then dramatically invited Orchard
/ to explain Orchard replied thai
! HAYWOOD, Meyer, Parker and Davis
| advised him to continue drawing relief
! 1ecaUse if he displayed money he
would excite suspicion.
j Then came a review of the earlier
attempt on the life of Governor Pea.
| body and tie making of bombs to xiv
J him and the plot against Judges Cab
bert and Goddard, with the effort cy.
erywhere to Egnten and cast doubt
upon the testimony Of the witness
/ Telling these stories Orchard brought
( Mrs. Steve Adams into the play He
said hat While he and Adams were
watching Goddard's house. Mrs. Ad-
/ ans went with them q couple of times
as a blind to divert suspicion from
them. Mrs. Adams, who had a Sc It
an ong the witnesses, laughed when
Orchard told of the incidents
For five minutes Orchard showed
more emotion than at any time since
he began his TESTIMONY 1t was when
the defense in rough-shod depression.
asked him if be had not deserted his
Grippe Creek wife, stripping her of
every nickel she had and leaving her
in poverty that compelled the sale OF
ner wasntub TO buy bread. Orchards
lips quivered and with te2rs near. he
faIteringly denied he had done So and
said the federation leaders had proD'-
ised to care for her fE his absence