The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-06-13

BOISE, Idaho, SpeclaI-Harry Or
ebard crowded his admissions Of
grave crime when continuing hi.
ease against William D. Haywood, he
made q detailed confession Of the
murder Of Frank Stuenenberg by an
internal machine that directly opens
the way for his own conviction and
execution for the mortal offense. He
swore that the assassination Of Stu
epsnberg was first suggested BY Hay
wood, was plotted by Haywood, Moy-
er, Pettibone and homself, was fame
ed by Haywood and was executed By
himself after the failure of an at
tempt in which Jack Simpkins had
participated
Orchard lifted the total of his own
murdered victims TO IS, detailed tho
circumstances under which he tried TO
murder former Governor Peabody,
Judge GODDARD, Judge Gabbart, Gen.
Sherman Bell, Dave Moffat and Frank
Herne. incidentally he confessed TO
a plan to kidnap the child of one Of
his former associates.
Hunt for stuenenberg.
Then under cross-examination by
the defense Orchard confessed guilt
Of the sordid social crimes of de-
serting his young child and wife in
Ontario, fleeing to British Columbia
with Hattie Simpson, the wife of an
other man, and committing bigamy by
marrying n third woman at Cripple
Creek. Through the shocking details
Of murder plots, stories of social
bomb-making and tales of manhunts
with sawed-off shotguns and Internal
machines as weapons, the witness
went on in the same quiet off-hand
manner that marked his demeanor
the day before. His voice dropped
to a lower key as the pitiful story
Of the long hunt for Stuenenberg mar
rowed down to the last day and he
told of the race from the hotel to
the house of his victim walking into
the death trap and the meeting in
'he evening gloom as the victim walk
ed unconsciously to his doom. Through
1t all he WINGED but once, and that
was when the defense made him name
bis six sisters and his one brother and
give their residences in Ontario and
New York.
State Gets Full Story.
The defense fought the story with
a multiplicity of objections and suc-
ceeded i'll heading off an attempt to
tell the story Of the murder Of Ar
thur Collins at Telluride and tempo
rarlly shut out the contents of a teIe-
gram received and a telegram sent
by Orchard after his arrest. EXCEPT
for this the State managed to get in ,
It's story intact.
The State began its confederation
OF Orchards crimson tale by produc-
ing the lead casing of the Peabody
bomb. Orchard identified it, swore
that he brought it from Canyon CITY
to Denver and then on to Wallace.
where he gave it to a man named
cunningham. 1t was thrown into
The river, and the State promises
later to prove its recovery.
Haywood and his kinfolk listened
lmetly to the long recital and about
heir first show of feeling was one Of
amusement when Attorney Richard
son BEGAN his onslaught and brought
'nt Orchards domestic crimes. /
There was the same precautions
ma 'he same armed guards to protect
richard and the same court room
Genes except that among the spec
ators the women to men were two
. ere. There was another rush for
and the doors Of tho
curt had to be closed at both sessions.
Orchard finished his direct exami-
iation at 2:35 o'clock and the cross
Examination only reached to the Coer
,Aiene days of 1899, when the court
ose.