The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-12

| After1the failure of the attempt the
lquest of Peabody was temporarily
abandoned. This was just before Pea
body was succeeded by Governor
Adams.
Orchard. declared he got the money
directly either from Haywood or Moy-
was an arrangement. he said that
I Adams should draw the money from
Pettibone. Haywood participated in
the arrangement. AS TO Meyer, Or
chard said he did not see him all win
ter.
Richardson asked Orchard if he
had not tried to get Max Mehalich, a
man of good reputation in Denver,
house full of "scabs' in GlobevilIe.
''No sir replied Orchord. MAX
Mehalieh tried to get me into it. He
| suggested it,
| "And what did you say?''
| Orchard Was Willing.
| 81 said I'd try to help him do it.
| He did not ask Mehanch for any
money whatever Mehalich, accord
ing to Orchard, said the "scabs'' were
driving him out of business and he
wanted them done away with.
IF any body asked you to dynamite
a person you were ready to go right
in on it,
mo sir. not everybody"
did you ever try to collect life
insurance policy on a man said to
! been drowned near Toronto, Canada ?"
| mo SIR replied Orchard positively.
Mr.. Richardson did not pursue the
subject. Returning to the scab board
ing house at Globeville, Orchard said
he had talked to Haywood about the
proposed dynamiting and was told not
to do it. That ended the matter.
| Mr.. Richardson next devoted him
self to the proposed assassination of
Frank Hearne of the Colorado Fuel
| and Iron company. Attorney Rich
ardson asked Orchard if he had not
| heard and read of debate between
| Haywood and Hearne before state
| senate committee. The attorney in
response to an objection from the
prosecution. said the question was in
tended to show that it was entirely
possible for Orchard to have learned
what Haywood had said of Hearne to
the latter's face, rather than to have
heard it from Haywood himself. The
question was allowed and Orchard
said he knew Haywood was at the
capitol frequently but he did not know
what he was doing there.
Then Richardson took another
track. So ss..--
s.'Where did you get your fresh meat
while you and Steve Adams lived at
Globeville %
Sometimes at Max MehaIich's"
GAS a matter of fact weren't you
so hard up you stole meat from the
stock yards? ?"
He Stole sheep.
WED go over and get a sheep
sometimes at night" replied Orchard.
amid laughter.
And you didn't have any money!"
eyes we did,
Then you found it easier to go over
and steal a sheep than to go down
and make Haywood cough up?' -
cit was not very hard to do either"
Orchard said he was drawing sup
plies from the miners strike relief
fund at the time he was being paid for
crime.
Nov will you tell the jury why
you did this?"
Eyes sir.-I WILL replied the witness.
''Moyer, Haywood, Parker and Davis
told me to take the supplies as other
wise people would want to know where
1 got the money to live on
Orchard said the Gabbert and Hearne
plots gave way for lack of opportunity
to score against Goddard Asked why
he wanted to kill Goddard Orchard said
it was because Haywood told him to-
Haywood said Goddard was against the
eight hour law and helped to upset it.
Richardson wanted to know if it was
not a fact that Judge Goddard had not
taken his seat on the supreme court
bench at the time of the plot.
"An 1 know is that he had been APP
pointed some time before by Governor
Peabody the witness replied.
Orchard said that Mrs. Steve Adams
accompanied him and her husband
allow was she arn1ed?' he was asked.
"She was not armed; she went along
as a blind"
once more the line of Richardson's
questioning led back to Globeville. Or
chard said he and Joe Mehalieh had
stolen some powder to blow up the hotel
or boarding house as suggested by Max
Mehalich. The powder was not used
Mehalich Orchard said, had helped steal
sheep and was to take part in the God
dard affair.
Quarreled With Adams.
Richardson wanted to know if Steve
adams had not threatened to put Or
chard out because he could not pay his
board BILL
mo, sir. We quarreIed.''
yes, and it was about your board bill,
too" sneered Richardson
1T was nothing OF the Sort retorted
Orchard with a flash of anger. 1T was
because Adams had gone down town,
got drunk and was put in jail for
week We couldn't find him anywhere"
Adams had been found drunk near a
lamp post where a bicycle was standing.
On this circumstantial evidence he was
accused of the theft of the wheel, but
the charge was removed.
Orchard said he gave Adams 500 to
get him out of town. This was because
Haywood would not give Steve any
more money to get drunk on.
Adams and Orchard parted company
for while after this. The latter con-
tinued to seek an opportunity to des-
troy Judge Goddard.
Richardson brought new figure into
the case by asking Orchard with re-
gard to his acquaintance with Lottie
Day The witness said he met the wo-
man after going to live at the Hotel
Belmont following his break with Adj
ans.
Before he could "get" Goddard he said
that Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone all
three told him to go down to Carson
City to continue hist attempts on Pea
body The arrangement was made at
Meyers home. This was the first time
Oro1,ord had hroI10hf Movar into the