The San Francisco call., 1907-06-26
Defense Seeking to
Show Independent
Motive
BY Oscar King Davis

BOISE t5sho. June 25-Exsmizstion
q witnesses FOR Ele defense II the
HAYWOOD trial began this morning. and
- r1e Lrst E1ree or The stand A-co--
ney Darrow 1Etlv cout-adicre6 that
pGrr o. Orchards story n which he
denied tlar he had ever seen X c
Sterl1g, the mine owners detective Of
cripple Creek. except Al the once OF
T. c scott Che railroad detective Dur
llg ne Gay other witnesses gave Ies-
uDoly tending 70 inplicste Orchard
with the mine owners detectives and
several q the witnesses On whose res-
riD01g the formal iDpssching QleS-
1eCse were based were also examined
Orchard himself WAS on The stand for
an hour or more during The morning
when Che last OF these i0peachsng
Questions were asked, and some coz
rec-lors made IN che testimony THAI
Richardson had brought out the last
tine that Orchard was in court
Dr. Hugo Nueuscerberg. the Harvard
psychologist who Lad been sumIno1ec
II telegraph By the editor O. . New
York magazine rc make study Of Or
cls16- arrived in Boise by the early
morning trafn ard was ore o. The most
interested spectators - the courtroom.
rot only during Orchards 5 examination
h-r throughout the CAV He had =
rEe murder machine for Orchard gave
another Illustration q his iiteralness
zs weI IS q his naperrrr0sbility- He
Vas confronted. cne @rter another by
fo-r OF I've q the witnesses who viii
testify 10 having heard him make
threats sEsius- Steunenberg's lite- He
faced Lheu all with perfect cooiness
ana admitted knowing some Of them.
whlle denying acquaintance wtth the
others
As when 1he other Impeachment
Guest Eons were asked. Richardson made
most % those This morning bear OF this
personal motive for The SteuueDoerg
murder He extended the line 70 which
Max Mslich Is going 70 testify oy add
t-E an alleged talk with Orchard il
z Denver Turkish bath Orchard said
thar he lad been IN The bath with
Match two Or three times and had
talked with him about the Occur
c 6Ale-es. but rad never zI any time
or place OF said IT substance O. effect
anything Ike the threats against
S-eu-enberE indicated BY the question
ORCHARDS DENIAL EMPHATIC
John Elliott whose business did not
snpesr. but who VIII testify 20 con-
versstiO1 with Orchard on train trsF-
cling from Eeiser 20 Naps n The latter
usrt Of November, 1905 WIS called 70
looked him over calmly and declared
thst he rad never seen Elliott before
So fsr as ne remembered The i'm
reaching question contained converse
zion several tvpewrirten pages long.
the gist OF which vas that during
discussion voluntarily opened b. Or
chsr5 with this stranger. Orchard had
said thst Re was employed BY both
s56es IN the Colorado troubles s1o the
nine owue-s were going 20 disrupt the
miners federation. adding thai some
thing startling would happen near
Caldwell
Orchard listened curicusiy 10 The
reading of the question and then de-
MED enphztcsiiy that he had ever had
such Z conversation Some question
having arisen as 70 the accuracy OF
rhe record n regard 70 one OF the Quss-
tfcns about the conversation with Max
Match. rhs lawyer asked Orchard II
he remembered the conversation and
the question
-he conversation. replied orchard
cz-efuIlv avoiding the senblsnce OF Al
admission that he was wiling 70 alter
his former denial
Richardson based another question
q testimony 70 be given by D c Cop
.ez. Z former member OF the executive
board Of the federation. Eho VIII tell o.
sfre- ths Bradley explosion Orchard
admitted that ne had seen CopleZ there
ard had called 81 his room He so-
s-f--e5 that they talked about the
Bradley explosion. but said that he did
rot tell Ccpley of his connection Eith
81
Re told Coplsy that he vas going
hack 20 Denver and OF MS sololer :
uniform disguise which net with Cop
lev-s approval Copiey suggested the
addition of glasses and went out and
rct q rzsr They talked about the
Coeur d'AIenes among other things,
s-d 70 some extent about Sreuue1berE.
but Orchard was positive IN his denial
that Re had made the threats
against the former governor which TIE
question alleged
richardson implicated Orchard in =
new crime. that Of fling gold coins. but
orchard declared that 4 vas Copley's
suggestion and explained that CoPley.
f-s~I-E been 5eEeier. understood how
- do TIE work They discussed ways
- reusllf-E coins that had been
drilled but nothing came Of Il
Orchard admitted having seen
CHARLES A Sullivan while lodging IN
Johnny Neville's house IN Cripple
creek when he first went there The
question based On SUlliTsn's testimony
.rss as 20 the threats against SIeunen-
terz. orchard again denied making
the-. Sullivan vas called OF TO stand
I'd z1d Orchard identified hin
WITNESS GOES AWAY
The last thing in the afternoon sulli-
van made 4 mess OF his testimony IN
Ger the cross examination ot Senator
Rorsh- Re had sworn 20 the converss-
tsou OF direct examination. but when
Borsh got after him The only thing
thai he could remember CT ali the talks
he had told OF with Orchard was
Orchards customary breakfast con
verssrtOn. but nobody else was ever
there 70 hear Il but Sullivan Orchard
fzd told him that he belonged 70 the
union. but Sullivan never saw him st
a meeting. Sullivan knew al the other
union men Orchard had told OF know
ing Davis. AEknsn. Esste-ly and
otSers. and they did hold the ofsces in
the union as Orchard said
one other conversation with Orchard
sullivan finally did remember That
vas when Orchard had told him Of the
blowing up OF the Bunker Hi and Sui
lsvan MIL IN Wsrdner and ot being
n-esent or that day This came Just
s@re- Dr.. NcGee had testified 70 seeing
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