Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-25
HAS PLENTY OF WITNESSES,
Asserted He Repeatedly Said
Steunenberg Had Wrcnged Him
And That He Would Kill Him.
several Surprises in Storc-Hayvvood
tend Into Last Week of July.


William p. Haywood devoted the early
part of this mornings session OF court
TO the completion of the basis for Har-
ry Orchards impeachment, and then
calling the first witness entered upon
a showing of relationship at Cripple
Creek prior to the Independence station
explosion between orchard and X. @.
Sterling then chief detective for the
Mine owners association. The i'm
peachment If Orchard relates almost
entirely to the proposition that he re-
peatedly protested that he had been
wronged by Gov. Steunenberg, and that
when he talked of his wrongs he in-
vafiably threatened TO Kill Steunen-
berg. The men by whom the defense
plans to inpeach Orchard in this con-
necton. and incidentally show Orchard
in an Independent position in the Sten~
neberg case. are Max Malich of Dem
Yer. DT. MCGEE of Wallace. ID. G. Cop
ley, formerly a member of the board OF
the federation of miners; Charles A,
Sullivan, formerly miner at Cripple
Creek: Frank A. HouEh of Wallace,
James a. Raipey, a stage driver at
Wallace; Lottle Day of Denver, F. r,
Redd. formerly miner at Cripple
Creek David Coates, former lcuten-
ant governor of Colorado, and VIM,
Easterly and w. F. Davis, who We're
leaders of the Cripple Creek strike,
Orchard positively denied that he ever
made threats against Steunenberg 10
any OF the men named at any time OF
place.
Haywood continues an active partici-
pant In the conduct of his case Today
he alertly watched every witness and
besides offering numerous suggestions
10 his attorneys made extended notes
AS the taking of testimony progressed.
ORCHARD A PUPPE1.
The presentation by Clarence Dar-
row the attorney who is conducting
the defense. has cleared the stage 70.
the new Interpretation of motive on the
part OF the chief actor or, as the de-
Tense claims, the puppet who played
the principal part in the many TRACE
dies and stirring events, between the
year 1899, when the troubles in the
Occur d'Alenes reached their height,
and the close of 1905, when former Gov.
Sieunenberg WAS asSasSinated. fol-
lowed by the arrest and confession OF
orchard and the arrest OF Haywood,
Meyer and pettibone, early III 1906.
Darrow's development OF the motive
The defense attributed to Orchard and
ls explanation OF the circumstances
on which the state of Idaho bases its
claim that he IL guilty I'm common with
Pettibone and Meyer of conspiracy
10 murder the leaders in the fight
against the methods of the Western
Federation, opens a field for conjecture,
which the defense claim they Will,
through their witnesses be able TO COM
plctely convince the jury and the pub
lie that for years conspiracy existed
among the mine owners and employers
OF labor In the states of Idaho and
Colorado to wine union labor from the
mining fields.
After Orchard was examined today.
The evidence for the defense began with
Colorado and Cripple Creek. Wit
nesses are here to swear that Orchard
was the confident OF the mine owners
and their detectives that they planned
and he was selected TO execute a NUM-
her of crimes The defense positively
states thai II Is not their intention to
convict the mine owners of murder a
The Nindicator mine and the Independ-
tnce depot, where 16 men were killed,
but they propose to SHOW that the
deaths were accidental. They even go
so far as 10 assert that Orchard draws
On his imagination In his relation of
his connection with the Vindlcator
mine and the Independence depot. and
that he was not there at all. On the
other hand, counsel for the state do not
seem to be disturbed. IT is stated
most positively that cross examination
and rebuttal will show that the de-
Tense has built up clever fabrication
that win fall under rebuttal like a
house OF cards.
1t is intImated that the surprises in
this case are not at an end, hut that
if the defense brings IN witnesses 70
prove the claims made by counsel in
the opening statements the case for
the state VIII be materially strength
cned A number of important Wit
nesses for the state will be here with
81 the next week and will be called i'm
rcbuttal.
body and certainly Gen. Buckley Wells.
the adjutant general Of Colorado dur
Ing the Cripple Creek troubles, and who
dug up the Goddard bomb.
Capt. MCFARLAND Of the Pinkerton
detective agency may also be a witness
IN rebuttal,
DEFENSE COUNSEL NoN-coM-
INITIAL
II has not yet been decided when
Haywood the defendant VIII go on the
stnnd 10 make his statement as to the
affairs of the Western Federation.
Counsel for the defense are nop-com-
initial az to the placing of Meyer the
president of the Western Federation.
ms witness, IL was quite evident
from the statements made by MIR. OAR
row that the defense proposes 10 adj
NIT the connection between Orchard
and Haywood and they admit that
Orchard WAS AT one time employed by
Meyer. But 1t IL claimed that all these
connections We're perfectly legitimate
and had nothing 10 do with conspir-
acy; that Orchard was a traitor and
that he sought employment and COM
necton with tho officers OF the West
ern Federation under the galse OF \
union workman and member OF the
Masonic fraternity all the time being
n detective employed by mine owners
and their detectives,
Witnesses are here 10 testify that Or
nhard was all his life a gambler and a
man who lived easily, ready 10 do any
crime Tor nay, Witnesses Will be here
to say that he did not poison the milk
ut the Bradley home ana that there was
no bomb explosion there. Bradley
while no viii not be here, has made
depositlons that the explosions were
moi caused by dynamite but by gas TO
offset this the state has expert testi-
mony on the possible effect OF both gas
ana bomb explosions which Will be on
The stand IN rebuttal
ORCHARDS ONE GREAT cRIAsA