The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-11
CROSS EXAMINE
MOVER TO-DAY
State Will Attack Testi-
mony of the President
of Western FEEDER
ation.,
WITNESS DENIES
CRIMES CHARGED
Says He Had No Personal
Feeling Against Former
Governor Stenen-
berg.

Boise, idaho, July TO- President
Charles H. Meyer of the Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners, went to the stand
to-day as a witness for Secretary Will
liam D. Haywood, charged with muir
dering Frank steunenberg, as Is also
Meyer and besides making positive de-
NAL of all the crimes attributed to him
and the other federation leaders by
Harry Orchard, Meyer offered an ex-
PLANTATION Of the unsolicited appearance
Of the Western Federation of Miners
as the defender Of Harry Orchard i'm
mediately after Orchards arrest at
Caldwell for the murder Of steunen-
berg.
Meyer swore that It was Jack simp-
Ains who engaged Attorney Fred Miller
at Spokane to go to Caldwell TO repre-
sent Orchard, then known as Thomas
Hogan, and that 1t was at the request
Of Simpkins that Meyer and Haywood
subsequently, advanced 1880 from the
funds Of the federation to meet the ex-
penses Of defending Orchard. At vari-
Gus stages Of the recital the defense Of
fered IN evidence a number of docu-
ments, including a heretofore undis-
closed cipher telegram which Simpkins
seat to Federation quarters and the
union at Silver City, covering the moves
to protect the federation which was
chaEed with the assassination of
stenuenberg within few days after
the fomer governor was slain.
Meyer said that he got his first
knowledge Of the crime from the Dem
yer newspapers and denied that he had
ever discussed any kind of criminal
act with Orchard or any one else, or
that he had ever given Orchard a cent,
except for expenses on the trip Orch
ard made to Ouray as a bodyguard for
Meyer. The witness said that he had
no personal feeling Of hostility for
Stenuenberg, and there were no cir
cilmstances that would make him desire
the life Of John Neville, whom Orchard
testified Meyer wanted killed.
Mover was under direct examination
from shortly after 10 o'clock in the
morning until few minutes before
o'clock and most Of the time was taken
up with a recital Of the witness con-
nection with the federation of miners.
Only one important clash marked the
relations of counsel during the day.
The defense wanted to prove all the
circumstances under which Meyer and
his associates were recently 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 transaction was not properly a
part of the defense but Attorneys OAR
row and Richardson continued their
plea that 1t was most important as
showing a conspiracy on. the part of
mine owners and the 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 arresting and extraditing party;
that Wells had charge of the train. and
that Wells had the keys of Movers
handouts. The attempt to show that
the three prisoners had been Illegally
taken to the Idaho peniten4iary failed
under adverse ruling of the court
Meyer will resume the stand to-n1or-
row morning for his cross examination
by Senator Borah.