The San Francisco call., 1907-06-26

tions OF Orchard and Pett5bone. and
was as 70 whether Orchard had not tolc
LOrtie Day that he always left z stake
sTith Pettibons- Orchard denied that
too. and then Richardson called up an
other federation nsi. for Identification.
z r Redd, one OF the Cripple Creek
deportees. Orchard said t1at he knew
him and had talked with him about
SteU1enberg and the CoeGr 6'Aienes.
but had never made threats against the
former governor
7 have often spoken about the Her
cules mine and my interest in it, said
Orchard He admitted repeatedly that
he had such conversations. and that
he had talked about TIE Couer d'Alene
troubles and about Steunenberg's part
IN them But he always denied max
ing threats against the man whom
he subsequently murdered
Richardson based tupesching oues-
tio1s about such threats on talks with
Dave Coates and with BIZ Easterly
and Bill Davis. Then he submitted
three photographs 70 Orchard for
Identification. and when the witness
had said that they were all Of him
self offered them IN evidence and got
them admitted over the states oo5ec-
ton Two were taken in the jail at
Caldwell Just after his arrest for the
Salt Lake several years ago with two
miner friends That shows Orchard
with ( smoking revolver II his hand
Or redirect examination Orchard re
pested his denisls and said that he
thought he was in Salt Lake 81 the
tine indicated by the Elliott question
Al the close OF the redirect exa1-ira-
ton the most striking exhibition OF
nerve Orchard has ever given oc-
CURED He had testified n his direct
examination that Z man named Joe
Scholtz went with him into the Tindi-
Gator on the occasion OF his attempts
F 70 set OF the carload OF powder that
he had discovered there before he set
the bomb which killed Mccormick and
Beck Richardson asked II Joe Scholtz
was in the room and man rose IN
the midst Of the crowd and came down
70 the rail Just back OF the witness
I chair
MURDERER SHOWS NERVE
/ Orchard swung around and for sew
erzl moments the men started each
other IN the face
That's rot the man I mean. said
/ Orchard. decidedly
SchoItz continued 10 stare Orchard
IN the face and Orchard looked him
was some kind OF animal Up for in
( specticn before purchasing.
No" replied Orchard. that's not the
Z Joe Scholtz mean: this is not the man
knew His name may be ScholtZ,
E but I don't know him
Then Orchard described the man he
knew. = nan OF very different appear
sncs from the one confronting him and
said that MCFARLAND told him some
tine ago that his man was still living
Z il Cripple Creek last summer.
The first witness for the defense was
Mrs Mary J. King. a motherly old lady
from Cripple Creek with white hair sn5
z pleasant face. who told simply AMI
with evident sincerity q story Of hav-
ing seen Orchard several times 90 10
the room OF x c Sterling. the mins
owners detective, N the lodging house
which she kept in Cripple Creek IN The
early part OF 1906 This con-ra6icSs
Orchard fatty He declared and stuck
70 II n his direct testimony that he
had never seen Sterling except at
Scotrs once
Mrs Kings daughter. q very attract
i've young woman, corroborated her
mothers statement and told Of seeing
Orchard three times il their house
The contradiction By these witnesses
Is not an essential point OF Orchards
story. but & contradiction OF one Of
the things 70 which he testified n re-
sponss 70 repeated questions Either II
) Z case OF confused recoIiect5ons on
both sides. or somebody has testified
falsely
The King women were followed BY
Mrs Alice Fitzhugh, who bought the
lodging house from them and who te=-
fifed 70 having seen Orchard there dur
ing her proprietorshtp- She was 2
different kind OF witness. however
There was an eagerness TO ger ont
her story that did not lend Il the con
xsction carried by the other TWO There
was little cross examination OF the
woman
DESCRIBES HOUNDS PURSUIT
c W Aller. q railroad man from
Lesdville. who worked as station agent
az Cripple Creek during the labor wars
told OF seeing Orchard come 70 the
station 70 meet Scott. who a2d his
once there. and OF an occasion not
long before the Independence depot
explosion. when Scott, Sterling and Or
cha-d were together n Scotts ONCE
for several hours. This testimony
would have corroborsted Orchard II the
witness had not got his dates mixed
He said that the first two visits were
after January J. 1894. but about two
weeks before the Vindscator shaft ex-
plosiou, which was OF November II.
1893.
The next witness was Ira BLIZZARD. a
Cripple Creek trainnau. who told OF
following q hound that was on the tran
after the Independence explosion and
OF being called OF when the hound was
going down the Colorado Springs road.
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