The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-14
All Call Him "Harry."

| NO, SIT.
All Call Him Harry"
Orchard said Warden Whitney also
calls him Harry"
You've been made a hero of by Nc
Parland, the governor and the warden,
| haven't you?"
mo. sir 1 don't know what you mean
| by hero
Orchard denied that he ate his meals
at the warden's home or that he ever
had wine with his meals. His food came
to him from the warden's kitchen.
| Orchard was questioned at length about
| his written confession. he SAID ne wrote
two. having left some of his misdeeds out
of the first
Did you write i'm this confession or
book the speech you made here on the
witness stand this morning about your
duty to God and your country"
| NO, sir
| "Who wrote that statement for your
| Nobody"
You had no preparation for it?"
| II may have thought of what / would
| say, but when | started in / did not know
/ what 1 would say"
| Orchard denied that he had ever been
/ put in a chair and examined and cross
| examined by the attorneys for the state
/ in preparation for the trial.
| Richardson wanted to know If Detective
Mcfarland hadn't instructed the witness
| as TO his demeanor on the stand. the po-
| sition to occupy, the tone of voice and
the way to look at counsel when question
| ing him, etc.
Orchard denied it all. He said McPar-
land had been in Boise several weeks
prior to the trial and had frequently Wis
/ tied him.
Richardson demanded to know if the
| witness thought MCFARLAND was visiting
| him for any other reason than the honor
and glory of the detective agency TO
which he belonged. Orchard said he didn't
know.
DO you think the salvation of your
soul was the object?'
Il couldn't say as to that"
Richardson questioned the witness for
adornment'' for the trial. Orchard said
his new suit of clothes was made by
convict in the penitentiary.
Tries to Be contented.
New shoes, hat and linen were brought
TO him by the warden. The overcoat he
sometimes wears is borrowed from the
warden. Orchard said he had always
been well treated at the penitentiary-
You like the place"
81 can't say as to that"
And you like your surroundings?
No sir; / am trying as best as L can
You know Bob wedder at the peni-
| tentiaryP"
Yes
He was sentenced to death and the
date of his execution fixed when you
spoke TO Governor Gooding about him
and had his sentence committed to life
| imprisonment"
II talked to the governor about We'd
der and said | felt sorry for him. | did
not believe he was a bad man, and that
If he were given a stay something might
turn up to show him up in a different
light"
COMMITTED by Governor Gooding
Here ended the long cross examination.
IL had been in progress just one week.
Attorneys for the defendant said they
few minutes more when certain of their
impeaching witnesses reaching the city.
Counsel for the state consented to this
with the proviso that they should reserve
their redirect examination until the de-
Tense finally concluded its cross exam
nation.
Orchard was remanded to the custody
OF Warden Whitney.
Poisoned Milk Case.
The state at once entered upon its plan
or corroborating Orchards testimony,
taxing up the first attempt on the life
OF Fred Bradley of San Francisco. Mrs.
sadie Swan, who as Sadie Bell when UNI
married was employed in the Bradley
household at 1404 Washington street,
was called. Mrs. Swan said she
opposite the Bradley home He
was going under the name of Barry at
that time. Orchard met the witness sis
ter and Mrs. Grove, the Bradley cook
He sometimes came to the house to de-
liver groceries
Mrs. Swan told Of finding the milk bit
ter one morning. Mr.. Bradley tasted il
and ordered that ii should NOT ba usad
This was about three or four DAYS he
fore the explosion which Injured Mr.
Bradley. Orchard testified that he pIIt
strychnine into the milk. After the ex-
plosion, Mrs. Swan said she never saw
Orchard again in San Francisco
When the witness was turned over to the
defense for cross examination. ATTORNEY
Richardson moved that all the Testimony
given by Mrs. Swan be stricken ont as
having nothing to do with connecting the
defendant Haywood with the matter.
orchard Is not on trial here" said
Mr. Richardson. This is not the kind ~
corroborative evidence the law calls for .
Judge Wood denied the motion and an
exception was noted
Attorney Clarence s. barrow undertoolS
the cross eXamina ton of Mrs Cuvan ~