The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-14

ed all His Acts Cowardiy-Showed
Feeling at Mention of Wife.
Boise, Idaho June 1.-THE attack
Of the Haywood defense on the testi-
mony of Harry Orchard goes on un-
remittingly and the witness will PROF.
ably be continued or the stand two
days more
Orchard withstands the strain with
remarkable fortitude and at the en-
of six days shows no indication of
mental or physical tagging.
Today began with the dynamiting
of Fred Bradley in San Francisco.
The defense made a long and determ-
ined effort to expose several features
of it to doubt the improbability and
to vitiate it all by revealing the hand
of the Pinkertons.
Then the play went back to Denver
for the winter of 1904-05, and the
spring that followed and there was an
extended effort to show that Orchard
had practically no communication
riod of several months he was reduc-
that he received no pay for the Brad
ley crime or anything else, and that
with Steve Adams IN a condition of
extreme poverty, extending over a Pc
eddy hard winter and spring he contin-
ed to the necessity Of stealing a sheep
from the Globeville stock yards that
he might have food.
0rahnr1 To n lo1TvhSr an1Irf r0Nn
confessed that he stole the sheep, but
stoutly denied that ii was because Of
want. He insisted that at a suppos-
edl yhar dwinter and spring he contin-
ued to draw money from Pettibone
through Adams, and explained that if
he did not see federation leaders often
it was because he was lying low" to
avoid capture.
The Globeville inquiry developed an
other shocking crime. At this Denver
| suburb there was a dfabolical plot
Orchard swore it was inspired by Max
Malich; the defense claimed that Or
chard was its author-a plot to dyna-
mite a boarding house wherein $50
non-uniOn men lived and in prepara-
ton for the murder en- bloc, Orchard,
Adams and a man named Joe Maha-
Itch broke into two magazines and
stole six hundred pounds of dynamite
which they logged at night home, and
buried it in their cellar.
The crime was abandoned, Orchard
said, in one of those flashes that
make his testimony remarkable, be-
cause Haywood interviewed and for
bade him to have anything to do with
it.
Carrying out the lines of testimony
tending to show that Orchard, regard
less of the great holG which he had
On the federation leaders, was fire.
quently without funds, the defense
showed that from late in 1903 until
the middle of 1904 Orchard continual
ly drew strike relief supplies at Grip
pie Creek and then dramatically invit-
ed Orchard to explain the inconsist-
ency to the jury.
Orchard replied that Haywood, Moy-
er, Parker and Davis all advised him
to draw the supplies because if he
displayed money he would excite sus-
picion.
The examination next reviewed TIE
early attempt on Governor Peabody
and the making Of bombs to kill and
the plots against Judges Gabbart and
Goddard, with an effort everywhere to
tighten and cast doubt upon the tes-
timony. Orchard tod a dramatic
story of the first attempt to assassi-
nate Peabody-an early morning drive
through the snow to place a bomt
and a wait for the victim who was
spared by the appearance of two Goa
wagons, which coming from an alley
way, were driven across the trigger
string at the moment that Peabody
was crossing the mine,
Orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adam:
= into the play today. He said tina
. while he and Adams were WATCHING
Judge G%oddard's house Mrs, Adams
went with them a couple of times a!
: a blind to divert suspicion from them
@ Mrs. Adams, who had a seat anon.
the witnesses laughed when Orchard
told the incident.
Orchard, who confesses that he hest
a tated at no crime and took a hundre'
desperate chances in those he commit
ted made an interesting contribution
to the psychological study Of his per
sonality when he called himself a cow
ard. He said that he was to cowardl
.e to openly kill Judge Gabbert, that b
2 regarded all his acts as cowardly.
In five minutes today Orchar
showed more emotion than at an