The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-26
Attorneys for Haywood Spring sensatlon-.-Ed
6oyce, Wealthy Mining Man, contradIcts
Accusations Against Federation.
Witnesses lmpeach Orchard.

and was kept by the former a; q
favor, to be sent when requested.
The state charges that the money
so sent was Orchards pay for as
sassination.
On cross examination the witness
said she had originally been sum-
moned by the prosecution. She
said she bad made statement 20
Attorney Stone for the prosecution.
Hawley then said he wanted the
witness held in town for further
cross examination, A lively row
followed, Richardson declaring lie
would not hold the witness when
she was not needed in court The
judge finally decided that all wit.
nesses wanted held by the prosecu-
ton must remain in Jurisdiction O.:
the court.
The next witness, John T. Elliot,
an inmate of the soldiers homo,
said he met Orchard on a train in
the latter part Of 1905. Orchard
said his name was Hogan and that
he had been working for the m! re
owners. He told Elliott they had
planned to put the federation out
Of business. Other capitalists were
interested in the scheme. A part Of
this plan was to destroy the unions.
Orchard warned him something
startling was likely to happen in
Idaho soon.
Elliott stuck closely to his story
under severe cross examination. lie
admitted that he had been in al
insane asylum 10 years ago.
The defense is well pleased with
the deposition of Fred Bradley + I'm
San Francisco. He declares un Ter
oath that the explosion which
Orchard claims to have caused at
his home resulted from gas.
The strongest showing made by
the defense yesterday was the tes-
timony Of Ira Blizzard, railroad
man employed at Cripple Creek.
He was a freight official of the
Florence & Cripple Creek railway
when the depot was blown up at In
dependence. He knew X. c. Ster-
ling as a Mine Owners association
detective and had communicated
with Sterling through the mine
owners headquarters.
Over the protests Of the prosecu-
ton Blizzard testified that he put
bloodhounds on the trail followed
by Orchard when he sneaked away
to Colorado Springs. The dogs
were following these tracks with
out trouble when Blizzard notified
Sterling by telephone and was or
dered to stop the pursuit. Sterling
informed Blizzard that he knew
Steve Adams blew up the depot,
and abandoned the chase, notwith-
standing the fact that the dogs
were on a trail leading away from
the scene of the explosion and over
which route Orchard has testified
he fled.
The state made q determined eff
fort to keep out this evidence, but
on Darrow's showing that he in
tended to prove Sterling responsible
for the explosion and would con-
meet Orchard with the Mine Own
ers' association, Judge Wood ad-
mitted 1t.
In addition to the boarding house
landladies, who established the fact
that Orchard frequently conferred
oonfidentially with Sterling in their
houses in Cripple Creek during the
mining trouble, the defense brought
in several other witnesses late yes
terday afternoon to impeach Orch
ards account of his actions.
DR.. A. l.. MCGEE a Occur d'Alene
mining broker, testified that he saw
Orchard at Mullan. 18 miles distant
from the Bunker Hill & Sullivan