The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-06-21
PLOTTED TO KIDNAP THE
CHILD OF FORMER PARTNER
Orchard Planned to Add Kidnapping
TO His Many Crimes, and AZ.
tempts 10 Involve Prominent
Colorado Man.

Boise. Ida-Tho defense on Wed.
ncsday carried the cross examination
OF Harry Orchard down to the actual
crime charged against William u.
Haywood murder of Frank
Stounonborg and as II progressed
assailod the testimony and the theory
Of the state resting upon 30
and various points. The stounonborg
crime was reached at midday and
counsel for the defense directed their
Efforts TO an attempt 90 cloud the
earlier purposes and movements Of
Orchard with uncertainty and In.
dcnnltcness. Then they emphasized
the abandonment NJ all EFFORT to Nil
after Orchard had first tracked Steun.
enborR ~ hotel Ia Boise aud with
skeleton key had gained entrance 10
the very room In which the governor
was living Here they delayed for
moment to prove that Orchard twice
wrote and once tclcphonod to BIN
Eastorly & Silver city 10 urge him
to come and join In the crime and
the direct complication was that or
chard was endeayoring 20 inyeiglc
another federation man into the
crime. which would bring discrcdit
and dishonor 10 the organization.
Then the Steuncnbcrg crime was
temporarily thrust into the back.
ground and the witness was carried
over hi long. diyotting journey Into
north Idaho and his crimes there, In
cluding the dark plot 10 hdnap and
hold for ransom the paulsOn children
were fOrcomlly emphasized Orchard
gworo that Dave Coates. former lieu
tenant governor uf Colorado. and then
publisher In Wallace Idaho. iirst
suggested the kidnapping to Pctubone
and himself az Denver.
puulson once poor minor, BE-
made fortune In the Hercules m'r'
In which Orchard held an lntuu
when the property was yaluolcss and
10 was believed that II his children
were stolen be- would come through
with S5OOOO or 100000 In ransom. or.
chard said that when he went 10
north Idaho he got Jack Simpkius to
come In on the plot and together they
went 10 Coates 10 renew the scheme.
Coates. who was In court, was
asked 10 stand mp for identification
and, facing him, Orchard said he was
the man
Then the defense showed the wit.
ness In the commission OF a series Of
mean crimes. and reduced 10 poverty
iu which he had to resort TO q pawn.
shop. borrowing and theft 10 live for
o long period. First he pawned some
jowolry and guns. This brought S25
or $50 Then with a man named Gun.
ningham whom he said Vincent St.
John had recommended to him as
safe and tried. he discussed n project
to give Cunningham the old Peabody
bomb which he still had In his trunk
for use by Cunningham on some non
union men at the Tiger and Poorman
mine.
Then he accepted the hospitality OF
paulson's home at the very time he
was plotting to steal the paulson chill
dron After that. with Jack Simpkins
he broke into the Oregon Railway &
Navigation company depot They
were after a trunk full Of icwclry
samples. hut instead got trunk full
of shoe samples Next he tapped a
cash register at Burke for $50 or $40.
10 was q long era Of crime and pow
criy and hard luck aud. summing u
up, the defense wanted to know why,
n me- was In Idaho on a mission Of
murder for Haywood. Meyer and Pet.
tlmono and with unlimited credit
from them he Mid not send to them
for money instead of borrowing and
stealing Orchard replied that he
did send n letter 10 Meyer at Butte
and got $780, but he did not send for
more because he was temporarily on
the Steunonberg murder and away
from where Steunenberg lived and he
did not want to send for more money
until he could show that he was back
az work.