Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-12
SIX. DAYS ORDEAL.
Orchard s Emotion at Thought
 of Deserted Wife.
CONFESsES HIMSELF 4 COWARD.
state's Chfef Witness at Boise Mur- der Conspiracy Trial Unique Criminal and an Interesting
 Psychological Study.

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 BOISE, Ida, June 12-The attack of the Haywood defense on the testimony of Harry Orchard goes on unremittlng- ly, and the witness will probably be continued on the stand two full days more. Orchard withstands the strain with remarkable fortitude and at the end of six days shows no indication of mental or physical Tagging.
 It began with the dynamiting of Fred Bradley in San Francisco. The defense made long and determined effort ts expose several features of 1t to doubt ard improbability and to viti- ate it all by revealing the hand of the Pinkertons.
 Then the play went back to Denver for the winter of 1904-05 and the spring that followed, and there was an extended effort to show that Orchard had practically no communication with the leaders of the federation, that he received no pay for the Bradley crime or anything else and that with Steve Adams in period of extreme poverty extending over period of several months he was reduce l to the neces- sity of stealing a sheep from the Globeville stockyards that he might have food.
 Orchard to a laughing courtroom 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 money from Pettibone through Adams and explained that if he did not see the federation leaders often it was be- cause he was lying low to avoid cap ture."
 The Globeville inquiry developed an other shocking crime. At this Denver suburb there was a diabolical plot Orchard swore it was inspired by Max Malich; the defense claimed that Or chard was it's author-to dynamite a boarding house where 150 nonunion men lived, and in preparation for this murder Orchard, Adams and a man named Joe Mahalich broke into two magazines and stole GOO pounds of dy- namite, which they lugged home at night and buried in their cellars. The crime was abandoned, Orchard said, in one of those flashes that make his tes- timony remarkable, because Haywood intervened and forbade him to have anything to do with 1t.
 Orchard also brought Mrs. Steve Adams into the play. He said that while he and Adams were watching Judge Goddard's house Mrs. Adams went with them a couple of times as a blind to divert suspicion from them. Mrs. Adams, who had seat among the witnesses, laughed when Orchard told the incident.
 Orchard, who confesses that he he's itated at no crime and took a hundred desperate chances in those he commit ted. made an interesting contribution to the psychological study of his per sonallty when he called himself cow ard. He said he was too cowardly to openly kill Judge Gabbert; that he re- garded all his acts as cowardly.
 Orchard at one time showed more emotion than at any time since he be- gan his testimony. It was when the defense in a roughshod Aggression ask ed him If he had not deserted his Grip. pie Creek wife and left her in poverty that compelled the sale of her washtub to buy bread Orchards lips quiyered and with tears he falteringly denied that he had done so aud said that the federation leaders had promised to care for her In his absence.