The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-15
WHAT THE DEFENSE WILL DO.
Orchards Cross Examination to Inst
into Next Week and Possibly
LonuCr

Longer.
Harry Orchard, confessed assassin
OF eighteen men, who is now trying
to send w. d. Haywood to the GAL
lows with the same impassiveness
that he planted bombs and hurled
nonunion miners and Frank Stunen-
berg to eternity, will not admit in
SO many words that he was de-
tective at the time he was suggest
ing and executing dynamite plots
at Cripple Creek and Denver. This
is the only part of his testimony
that so far causes him any pertur-
baton. He is slow to answer cross
questions relative to his connection
with the detectives who were work.
ing in Colorado to break up the
Western Federation Of Miners,
Orchard cannot or will not explain
why it was that during the time
Sherman Bell was supreme in Colo
rado mining towns and the district
and the district around the mines
was under martial law he was never
lnterfered with by the pickets or the
officers, though every other union
man was subject to the surveillance,
Nor does he explain why it was that
his home was never searched by the
soldiers and the homes Of the miners
who lived next door to him were
ransacked more than once.
The defense will offer testimony
to prove that Orchard was a Pinker-
ton or mine owners detective and re-
ntained a sleuth from that time for
ward. One Of the witnesses who
will testify that the assassin was a
detective, is Mrs. Ida Toney, whom
Orchard married at Cripple Creek.
She is on the way here to swear that
at the time she married Orchard he
told her that he was Pinkerton
and she will also testify that their
home at Cripple Creek was never
searched by the soldiers, that the
homes of union men next door were
searched, and at this time Orchard
was known in the mining districts
as one Of the leaders OF the strikers.
+, The defense will also show, ac-
cording to the cross-eXamination,
that when Orchard went to Cripple
Creek, that the strike was practi-
cally over and that many mines were
running and not discriminating
against union men and also that
the withdrawal of the militia was
under consideration Dy Governor
Peabody. 1t will also be shown that
there never was an act of violence
III the Cripple Greek district while
Orchard was away from there. Or
chard swore that he never heard of
anything being pulled off while he
was some other place.
The defense will offer to prove
that the independence depot crime
was the result of scheme by the
detectives and the mine owners who
wanted the soldiers kept at Cripple
Creek. 1t is to be shown that the
depot was an abandoned wood struc-
ture, not worth $500 and not used
as passenger depot except by min
ers, and that it was planned to blow
1t up when no one was about the
place and then blame the miners
union.
The cross examination of Orchard
is likely to last through Monday and
tuesday of next week. and possibly
longer. Orchard has now been on
the stand for fourteen hours in di-
rect cross examination OF this the
state had him in hand for seven and
one-half hours. In that time he
told what appeared to be an incred-
lble story spread over the forty-one
years of his life, the first thirty
years being merely commonplace
the story of a poor Canadian farmer
but, beginning with the year 1896
he unfolded career in which to use
the language of the leading counsel
Tor the state, assassination was a
trade and murder means of liyli-
hood"
Orchard spared nd incident of his
more recent life under the question
ing of the state that might prove to
the jury his readiness to slaughter
for low v'age, and how Indifferent
he had been as to the number and
condition of his victims. This story
brought out by the counsel for the
state was, however, merely synop-
sis of the play whose acts cover the
years since 1899. In every act the
climax sent a shudder through a
crowded court room.
Under cross-examination by 70. r.
Richardson, counsel for w. d. Hay
wood, Orchard has SO far developed
this series OF tragedies, but only up
to the year 1904. Three more years
and many murders are yet to be
analysed. For purposes OF it's own,
not SO far revealed, the defense is
determined that Orchard shall re-
tell his life story SO that the most
diabolical or the most squalid de-
tail may not fail to be impressed
upon the minds of men who are to
pass upon the question whether w.
d. Haywood is guilty OF completely
to murder by hireing Orchard or
Steve Adams to bump off, COVER
nor, slaughter a supreme Judge, c1
blow up mine or depot filled with
scabs.
The court room scene is remark
able-'possibly the most remarkable
ever seen in any court. Session af-
ter session since Orchard first went
on the stand a crowd has sought ad-
mission. Every seat is filled long be-
fore the sheriff calls tie court to
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