The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1907-06-13
ORCHARD UNSHAKEl
Haywood Attorneys Still Cross
Examining Him.
MAKE LITTLE HEADwAY
Tried to Show Confessed Murderer
Killed Steunenberq For Revenge and
Planned to Steal Child Of Old Part.
ner For Ransom.

Boise, Idaho, June 13.-The defense
carried the cross-examination of Harry
Orchard down to the actual crime
charged against William D. Haywood
the murder of former Governor Frank
Steunenberg. When the Steunenberg
crime was reached the defense direct
ed their efforts to an attempt to cloud
the earlier movements Of Orchard
with uncertainty and Indebtedness
Then they emphasized the abandon
ment, of all effort to kill after Orchard
first tracked Stenenberg to hotel
in Boise, and with q skeleton key had
gained entrance to the room in which
tho governor was living. Here they de
layed for q moment to prove that
Orchard twice wrote and twice tele
phoned to Bill Easterly at Silver tc
urge him to come and join in the
crime, and the direct Implication was
that Orchard was endeavoring to in
yeigle another Federation man into
the crime which would bring discredi1
and dishonor to the organization.
Then the witness was carried over
his long journey into Northern Idaho
and his crimes there, including plot
to kidnap and hold for ransom August
Paulson's child, were emphasized
Orchard swore that David Coates, for
merly lieutenant governor Of Colorado
and late q publisher in Wallace. Idaho
arst suggested the Kidnapping at Den
yer. Paulson. once . p6of miner, had
made . fortune In mine In which
Orchard held an interest when the
property was not paying, and it was
believed that II his children were
stolen he would come through" with
$50, 900 or $50 900 in ransom. Orchard
said that when he went to North Da.
kota he got Jack Simpkins to enter
the plot, and together they went to
Coates to renew the scheme.
Coates was asked to stand up. and
Orchard said he was the man. Orchard
was then asked whether he had not
himself proposed the crime to- Coates
who. Immediately rebuffed him, and
whether Jack Simpkins had not warn
ed Paulson the minute he heard Of the
plot. Orchard denied both suggestions
and, reiterating his first story, he in
sisted that Coates had consented to
stay In the plot and handle the money
they hoped to get from Paulson.
Lastly, there came q showing that
Orchard had borrowed $500 from Paul
son on the strength of fraudulent
story that he was going to Los An
geles to sell mining stock for Coates,
and that this was the money that
actually paid his expenses when he
went back to Caldwell on the final
mission of murder.
Swiftly reviewine his meetings with
his old partner. who had meantime be
come rich, the defense asked the wit
ness II. disappointed and ansered q
his own hard luck In selling the Her
cules mine, when Steunenberg sem
troops into North Idaho. he had moi
suddenly decided to borrow enough
money from Paulson to take him te
Caldwell, where he would murder the
man whom he blamed for his misfor
tune Orchard strenuously denied that
this was his motive.
Soon after Orchard left the stand
David Coates said: II do not care al
this time to discuss the statement
made by Orchard. will have an op
portunity to reply in full when &C
on the stand for the defense. I will
say. however, that Simpkins never
never talked to me Of the kidnapping
of Paulson's child. Orchard did moi
speak to me about It In Denver, but
he did come to me in Wallace and out
line the plot. He said that he wanted
to kidnap Paulson's child and get Z
bunch Of money. I told him that he
was fool, and that II he attempted
to do 20 l would denounce him publicly
and that he would be run out of Wal
lace"
Coates served q term as lieutenant
governor Of Colorado, having been
elected ON the Populist ticket.