The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-11
MOYER TAKES STAND
IN HAYWOOD HEARING.
Denies All the Important Statements Made by
Orchard, Murderer of Frank
Steunenberg.
Never Talked to Him About Committing Crimes OF Any Char
aCter-FirSt knowledge of Murder Through
Newspapers.

reimburse him for the expense that he
had incurred in clearing himself, but
this request was refused.
Meyer denied that he participated in
the conference in Petitioners backyard
where Orchard said he, Haywood and
Pettibone had discussed various acts
of violence, denied knowledge of the
subsequent meeting at federation head
quarters, where Orchard SWOre the
Steunenberg and Neville executions
we're planned, denied practically every
material statement in all of Orchard
testimony. Meyer explained that Or
chard accompanied him to Ouray be-
cause Orchard was going to Silver
ton and they made the journey tOgeth-
er as a matter of convenience. Rep
reSentatiVeS of the United Mine Work
ers had been beaten up by thugs en-
ployed by the Mine Owners and the
witness Orchard took along cutoff
shotguns for their own protection.
Meyer swore that his gun was not
subsequently used to kill Lyle Greg
CRY, but that Orchard returned it to
the witness after they got back to
Denver and the weapon had never
been discharged up TO the time Meyer
was arrested.
On Stand All Day.
direct examination from shortly after
10 o'clock in the morning until a few
minutes before 4 in the afternoon, and
most of the time was taken up with
recital of the witness connection
with the Federation of Miners. He
told a detailed story of his arrest at
Ouray and his transfer to Telluride,
where the military refused to reCOg-
niZe the processes of the courts set IN
motion to effect his release. He was
arrested on the preteXt that he had
desecrated a flag by the issuance of a
federation hand-bill denouncing the
methods of the state officials Mine
Owners and militia on which an en-
blem of the American flag was repro
duced. a copy of this hand-bill was
introduced and then the witness told
of the various efforts to secure his
release and Of his subsequent arrest
on the charge that he was implicated
IN the indicator outrage.
OILY one important clash marked
the relations of counsel during the day.
The defense wanted to prove all the
circumstances under which Mover and
his associates were secretly arrested
in Denver, denied communication with
counsel, and taken to Idaho by special
train, but the state opposed it. The
court ruled that the circumstances of
the eXtraditOn were not properly a
part of the defense, but Messrs Oar
row and Richardson continued their
plea that it was most important as
showing a conspiracy on the part of
the Mine Owners and Pinkertons and
managed to show that Meyer had been
denied permission to communicate
with counsel, that Buckley Wells of the
Mine Owners association was in
charge of the train. and. that Wells
I had the keys to Meyers handouts
and twice unlocked them during the
journey to Idaho. The attempt to
show that the prisoners had been il
| legally taken to the Idaho peniten-
| tiaTy failed under adverse rulings of
the court.
Meyer made self-possessed witness
and at the end of the long day the
| defense expressed satisfaction over
both his testimony and the probable
impression he made on the jurors. He
is man Of good appearance and ad-
dress and his low-pitched voice is of
pleasing tone. He displayed some
nervousness when he first faced the
| courtroom and worked it off on a lead
pencil that he carried. but the exam
inatiOn had not proceeded far before
! he seemed quite at ease. He will re-
sumo the stand at $50 tomorrow
morning, when the state will enter
upon its cross examination. His direct
| testimony took a wide latitude and the