The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-28

GfAaTfl III
ycnce-Witness Testify to Threats
Made by Orchard-Was a ''Spotter"
for a Detective Agency-Held Many
Conferences With Detective for
Mine Owners Association.
Boise, Idaho, June 25.-The first
direct testimony in defense OF VIM.
D.. Haywood. was offered today 1t
was chiefly directed toward w
that Harry Orchard, Blaming Frank
S~teunenberg for the loss, of his inter-
est in the Hercules mine, had threat
encd to nave revenge by killing him
and that the conduct of Orchard and
K. c.. Sterling, both before the indie
pendence explosion, when they were
frequently seen together and after
wards, when Sterling called off q
bloodhound that was following Or
chard's trail, justified the inference
thai the mine inspired the
crime.
The calling of the first witness for
the defense was preceded by a further
examination of Orchard to permit the
defense to complete its formal i'm
peaching questions. These were near
ly all in connection with the claim
that Orchard killed S~teunenberg be-
cause of an alleged grudge growing
out of the sale of his interest in the
Hercules mine.
Orchard who came into our un-
der protection of the same Squadron of
guards that always acts as his escort,
maintained his old calmness and
spoke in the low pitched soft tone.
He again enied tina he ever threat
ened to kill Steunenberg because Of
the Hercules mine and again assert
ID that he sold his interest in the mine
two years before the trouble that
drove him out of northern Idaho.
Two witnesses called later in the day
swore that Orchard did threaten to
kill Steunenberg because Of the Her
cules matter and the defense has pre-
pared the way for such testifying from
a dozen more witnesses. The two
heard today were F. r. Redo, once of
Cripple Creek and now of Goldfield,
New, n Charles A. Sullivan, form
erly of Cripple Greek and now u
Waterman in the Brown Hotel in
Denver.
Redo said he heard Orchard make
the statement and threaten diners
hall at Cripple Creek, and Sullivan
then swore h a while he and Orchard
were fellow boarders at John Neville's
place in Cripple Greek Orchard re-
peatedly said that but for Steunenburg
he would be a rich man and thai he
intended to kill him. The cross ex-
animation showed that both were
members of the Western Federation of
Miners and that sullivan was a friend
of Haywood, Meyer n many of the
union leaders at Cripple Greek.
DR.. I. L.. MCGEE, a mining broker
OF the Couer D'Alenes, another i'm
peaching witness, swore that orchard
told him in 1904 at Wallace, Iraho,
that he was a "spotter' for a detec-
tive agency.
Orchard denied this conversation:
denied that he was in Idaho at n
time in 1904.
Several witnesses, principally wo-
men, who kept lodging houses at
Cripple Creek, located Orchard at
various conferences with Sterling, the
detective Tor the Min Owners Asso-
citation, prior to the Independence ex-
DlOsion, and there was a further show
ing as to meetings between Orchard
and ID. c. Scott, h detective for the
Florence and Cripple Creek Railway
Another witness told of the effort 70
locate men guilty of the Independence
station outrage by starting a blood
hound from the chair rung used in
pulling off the mine explosion. He
said the dog took trail to Colorado
Spring, the one over which Orchard
fled in the night and that when he
reported TO Sterling he got or
ders to call the dog off. Sterling said
he knew who blew up the station and
later said that Steve Adams had done
so.
The state fought the admission of
the bloodhound story and also on
posed the admission of evidence cover
ing genera features of the Colorado
labor law, but in both instances tho
court ruled with the defense.