The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-07
EXAMINATION is
HEARD BY A GREAT
CROWD AT BOISE
Court Room and Jail Yard
Filled With Those Anxious
To Follow the Testimony of
Harry Orchard.
CROWNED ADMISSION
IN THURSDAYS TALE.
Shocking Details Were Laid
Bare and Were CIimaxed
With Long Hunt for Steun-
enberg and His Murder.

Boise June THE courtroom and
Jail yard were filled with great
crowd today to hear the cross exami
nation of Orchard by Attorney Rich
ardson
Recurring to the Wardner affair,
Orchard could remember only one
man, Gus Peterson, who happened to
carry powder to the mill house. He
fuse. Orchard admitted he is a poker
player. All incidents relating to the
Bunker Hill affair were gone over,
Orchard being pinned down to every
move made that day. Referring to
the meeting of the Burke union when
the vote was taken to go to Wardner
and blow up the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van mines, Richardson asked Orchard
who notified him to go. He did not re
member. Orchard answered details
regarding the trip to Wardner This
line of Interrogation is to lay basis
for showing that wrecking of the mine
was the outcome of the mine owners
row. Orchard said he worked three
years after the Occur Dalene trouble
in Utah, Nevada and California.
Crowned His Admissions.
Orchard crowned his admissions of
grave crimes Thursday when. continu
ing his testimony against William d.
Haywood, he made an explicitly de-
tailed confession of the murder of
Frank SteunenberG by an Internal ma
chine. that directly opens the way for
his own conviction and execution for
the mortal offense.
He swore that the assassination of
Steunenberg was first suggested by
Haywood. was jointly plotted by Hay
wood Meyer, Pettibone and himself,
was finarfced by Haywood. and was ex-
ecuted by himself. after the failure of
an attempt in which Jack Simpkins
had participated.
Orchard lifted the total of his own
murdered victims to eighteen. detailed
the circumstances under which he
tried to murder former Governor Pea
body, Judge Goddard. Judge Gabbert.
General Sherman Bell. d. III. Moffat
and Frank Herne. Incidentally he
confessed to a plan to kidnap the child
of one of his former associates. Then
Orchard confessed guilt of sordid so
cial crimes. of deserving his young
wife in Ontario. fleeing to British Co
1umbia with Hattie Simpson. the wife
of another man, and committing big
amy by marrying a third woman at
Cripple Creek.
Shocking Details Laid Bare.
Through the shocking details of
murder plots. stories of secret bomb
making. and of man hunts with sawed
off shotguns and internal machines as
weapons. the witness went on in the
same quiet off-hand manner that
marked his demeanor yesterday. His
voice dropped to lower keys as the pit
iful story of the long hunt for Steu-
nenberg narrowed down to the last
day and he told of the race from the !
hotel TO the home to beat his victim /
with the death trap. and the meeting
in the evening gloom. as the victim
walked unconsciously to his doom.
Through it all he WINGED but once,
and that was when the defense made !
him name his six sisters and his one
brother and give their residences in
Ontario and New York
The defense fought the story with a /
multiplicity of objections and succeed
ed in heading off an argument to tell +
the story of Arthur Collins. at Tellu-
ride, and temporarily shutting out the
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