The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-10
STEVE ADAMS
WORSE THAN
ORCHARD
WILL SOON BE PLACED ON
THE STAND IN HAY
WOOD TRIAL.
PINKERTON'S MANS CLEVER WORK
Cross Examination Is Bringing Out
Great Mass of Interest
ing Details.

BOISE, June 8. Steve Adams,
another prisoner witness for the
state in the case against William d..
Haywood, is now on his way to Boise,
coming from the jail at Wallace,
where he is held pending trial on a
charge of murder. Adams, accord
ing to Harry Orchard, was thepart-
ner of the Glass assassinator in many
of the dumping off" expeditions,
successful and unsuccessful in which
Orchard has made confession Adams
also confessed last year, but unlike
Orchard he repudiated the document
when he faced the gallows. The con-
fession is, however, sworn to and in
writing. 1t shows careful correction
and interlineation in Adams own
handwriting. Those who have seen
Adams confession say it surpasses
Orchards story of cold-blooded man
hunting and murder. The list of
Adams alleged victims is not as long
as that with which Orchard credits
himself, but this is said to be because
Steve still-hunted a single quarry,
while Harry, to use his own words,
"did not care whether he killed one
man or fifty" as he "felt at that
time"
Another interesting witness who
arrived in Boise today is Mrs. Ida
Toney- Orchard, the widow with
three children, whom Orchard took
to wife, Notwithstanding the exist
ence of another wife living in Canada
and known there under Orchard s
true name. Mrs. Ida Toney-Orchard
will be witness for the defense. 1t
is understood she will testify that
Orchard while he lived at. Cripple
Creek, was in the employe of the
mine owners. 1t is expected by the
defense that she will be able to throw
some light upon the motives of Or
chard, and will be relied on to
strengthen the claim of the defense
that the mine owners and not the
Western Federation of Miners We're
the conspirators who employed Or
chard to murder. Orchard married
the second time at Crippel Creek
when he was at work as miner. AT
that time he was member OF the
Miners union. They were married
shortly before the great strike broke
out in 1904. The woman was keep
ing a miners boarding house.
Some new light may be thrown on
the murder of Lyte Gregory in Den
yer. According to statements made
by the police in Denver, Orchard and
Simpkins, or whoever his accomplice
was, were suspected at the time OF
the murder. Bloodhounds tracked
them to the yard behind Pettibone' s
store, where Orchard says he hid his
guns and the other evidence which
was discovered. The police were able
to arrest the two men when orders
came from some mysterious source
that the men were not to be molested,
and Orchard was allowed to get out
of town. This statement is said to
have been made by Chief of Detect
ives Loomis of Denver and Paul
Gregory, a brother of the murdered
man, has made a similar statement.
1t is likely that both will be called
as witnesses, and the mysterious or
der allowing Orchard to get away
will be investigated.
The arrival of witnesses Is an in
teresting feature of the case. Men
whose names have been connected
with the history of the mining trOu-
bles and the bloodshed in Idaho and
with Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone