The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-12
Cross Examination Is
 Continued. WITNESS ON STAND
 WHEN COURT ADJ0URNS For First Time Meyer is Connected
 With Crimes. Confessed Murderer Displays some IT, ritation At Questions Hurled At Him By Attorney For wil-
 liam ID. Haywood.

. Boise, Idaho, June 1.-The attack or the Haywood defense of Harry Or chard goes on unremittingly and the witness will probably be continued on the stand two full days more This day began with the story of the dy- namiting of Fred Bradley in San Fran cisco, and the defense made long and determined effort to expose several features of it to doubt
 Improbability and further discredit- ing. and to vitiate ie all by revealing the hand of the Pinkertons.
 The play went back to Denver for the winter of 1904-05, and the spring following and there was extended eff forts to show that Orchard had prac- rically no communication with the leaders Of the Federation; that he re- ceiyed no pay for the Bradley crime \ or anything else and that with Steve Adams in a period of extreme poverty extending over a period of several months he was reduced to the neces- sity of stealing sheep that he might have food.
 Oechard, to a laughing court room, seriously confessed that he stole the sheep, but stoutly denied that it was because of want. He insisted all through the supposedly hard winter and spring he continued to draw money from Pettibone through Adams and ex- plained that if he did not see the Fed eration leaders often it was because he was lying low to avoid capture flor previous crimes. This Globeville fn- quiry developed a more shocking crime. At this Denver suburb-there was di- aboiical plot-Orchard swore it was in- spired by Max Malfch, the defense claiming that Orchard was it's author --to dynamite boarding house where 150 non-union men lived, and, in prep .araffon for the murder en bloc, Dr. chard.s Adams and man named Joe MahaIich broke into two magazines and stole 500 pounds of dynamite which they lugged home at night and buried in their cellar. The crime was aban- doned. Orchard said, in one of those flashes that make his testimony re- markabie, because Haywood intervened and forbade him to have anything to do with 1t.
 Drew strike Relief.
 Carrying out the lines of testimony tending to show that Orchard, regard less of the great hold which, 1t IS presumed, he had on the federation leaders, was fully without funds. the defense showed that from late in 1905 until the middle of 1904 Orchard con tfnuaIiy drew strike relief at Cripple Creek and then dramatically invited OrcharA to explain the inconsistency to the fury. Orchard replied that Hay wood, Mover and Parker and Davis all advised him to continue drawing re- 2 lief because, if he displayed money, he would excite suspicion. The exam innation. next covered a review of the earlier attmept on the life of Governor Peabody and the making of the bombs to kill him and the plots against Judges Gabbert and Goddard with an effort everywhere to cast doubt upon the testimony of the witness. Orchard hA 0V1t to assassfnate Peabody, an early morn ing drive through the snow to place the bomb and wait for the victim who was spared by the unexpected appear ance of two coal wagons that, coming from an alley, were driven across the trigger string at the moment that Peabody was crossing the mine field.
 Orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adams into play today. He said that, while he and Adams were watching Judge Goddard's house, Mrs. Adams went with them a couple of times as blind to divert suspicion from them. Mrs Adams, who had a seat among the witnesses, laughed when Orchard told of the incident.
 Orchard, who confesses that he hesi- tated at no crime and took hundreds of desperate chances in those he com mitted, made an interesting contribu- tion to the psychological study of his personality when he called himself coward. He said he was too cowardly to openly kill Judge Gabbert, and that he regarded all his acts as cowardly.
 Tn five minutes today Orchard showed more emotion than at any time since he began his testimony. It was then the defense in a roughshod digres- sion asked him if he had not deserted his Cripple Creek wife. stripping her of every nickel she had and leaving her in poverty that compelled the sale of her wash tub to buy bread. Cr- chard's lips quivered and. with tears near. he falteringly denied that he had done so and said that the federation leaders had promised to care for her dn his absence
 Attempts to Kill Bradley.
 When Orchard resumed the stand at the opening of court today, Attorney