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,,nh himself, might have become INA.
az Lon man had he not been obljsos
60 49, rom the country because N S, W
epnor Steunenberg had bronaht e. N ,I
oneh anu established militnr, ,an'
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Slmpklns about his earlier No win
Deconling rich but had never ' biaus
Su'overnor Steunenberg becapsa ""i ho
himself had not been so fort7 ne
ne SAID he had sold the pronar rt,'a S'
.o,s ne had left the districtLha6 ny.
soiu 1t because he was ohreed uo'
ea'e' lie said he had sold his irtar
lest III the Hercules when II was -, nS,,.
ing more than very good nrosr., sa
mad sold 1t at a profit over a't,d,,
nau cost MIN, and at the time of rho
saie he mad considered chat ne bad
uriVen very good bar gain. 1"'
correspondent With His Wife.
"A very interesting feature of N.
cross-examination was the dayoinu u
ment OF the fact that Orchard siod p
ms Imprisonment in the STATE 49,
tentlary, had received letters frorp IT.
lirst wlie-his real wife, whom ne had
hoL seen since he deserted her IN On
Carlo, away back in 1895, to run away
Win another mans wife. In answe,
70 questions by Richardson. Orchard
stated that he had sold some articles
OIL 1ewelry-some lockets. some cola
chains and other property and had
sent the greater part of the proceeds
10 the wife back east. Part of the
property he had sold, a fishing md
anu reel, some guns, field glass and
some minor trinkets, Orchard said
mad been sold by Warden Wbitnav
ior him, with the understanding the
property should not be delivered IN
the purchaser until after the trial"
Orchard said he understood Coverno,
Gooding had furnished Whitney with
$50 of the money.
First Signs of Emotion.
On Tuesday Orchard showed mira
emotion than at any time since he
began his testimony. 1t was when the
defense, in rough-shod depression
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 washtubs to buy bread Orchards
lips quivered, and with tears year he
falteringly denied that he had done
so, and said that the federation lead.
ers had promised to care for her in
his absence.
Says He Was a Coward.
Orchard, who confesses that he hes,
itated at no crime and took hundred
desperate chances In those he com.
mitted, made an interesting contribu-
ton to the psychological study of his
when he called himself
coward. He said he was too cowardly
to openly kill Judge Gabbert; said
that he regarded all of his acts as
During the examination on Tuesday
there was an extended effort to show
that Orchard had. during the winter
of 1904-5. had practically no commu-
with the leaders of the fed
Grafton; that he received no pay for
the Bradley crime or anything else
and that. with Steve Adams, in a
period Of extreme poverty extending
over several months, was reduced TO
the necessity of stealing sheep from
the Globeville stock yards that he
might have food.
Orchard Sheep Thief.
Orchard, to a laughing court room,
seriously confessed that he stole the
sheep. but stoutly denied that it was
because of want He insisted that all
through that supposedly hard winter
and spring he continued to draw
from Pettibone through
Adams, and explained that If he did
not see the federation leaders often
1t was because he was lying low to
avoid capture for previous crimes.
Mrs. Adams Laughed.
Orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adams
into play during Tuesdays cross-ex-
He said that while he and
Adams were watching Judge God
CARDS house Mrs. Adams went with
them a couple of times as blind to
divert suspicion from them. Mrs.
Adams. who had seat among the
witnesses, laughed when Orchard told
the incident.