The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-06-20
HAYWOOD IN APLOT
TO FOOL A WOMAN
LETTERS TO DECEIVE SECOND
MRS. ORCHARD PRODUCED.
DEFENSE OBJECTS vAINLY
Orchard swears He Had Sold Hercules
Mine Long Before the Strike,
Combating the Revenge
Theory.

Boise, Idaho, June l9.--The prosecu.
| tion In the Steunenberg murder trial
offered one of its most important
| pieces of evidence against William d,
Haywood Tuesday, when, recalling
Harry Orchard for redirect examina-
tion, it introduced and secured the
admission of four letters tending to
show that Haywood, during the fal,
| of 1905, when Orchard swears he was
engaged on various crimes for the
Federation leaders, had participated
In a plan to deceive Mrs. Orchard the
second, OF Cripple Creek, as to the
whereabouts of her husband
Over variety of protests from the
defense Orchard was allowed to tes-
| tify that early in the summer Of 1905
Haywood told him that Mrs. Orchard
was writing him for information as
| to Orchards whereabouts. Orchard
swore that he proposed that he should
write his wife series of letters that
were to be falsely dated and delivered
to Mrs. Orchard by agents of the
federation.
Letters Produced and Admitted.
i AiC souiu tildb' HC iiinL NlOlG lWO lCl-a
ters which he dated at San Francisco
and had them delivered through
Paddy Mullaney, who represented the
federation at Cripple Creek. Orchard
identified the two letters and. over
ruling all objections of the defense,
Judge Wood admitted them.
Next Orchard swore that he wrote
third letter purporting to come from
Nome, Alaska, and that under the gem
eral arrangement he made with the
federation officials, Marian Moore
carried the letter to Nome, where he
went as organizer of the federation
and posted it. This letter, bearing the
date of Nome, August 5. 1905, was pro-
duced, identified and admitted as evil
dence.
Orchard then identified letter
which Haywood wrote to Mrs. Or
chard and that, too, was admitted in
evidence and handed to the jury 1t
was as follows:
Denver, November is, 1905. Mrs.
H. Orchard: Dear Madam and Sister:
| have not heard a word since | saw
you. The last information got was
from Alaska. l think Fairfield was
the name of the place. see that
awful conditions prevail among the
law and order element. Yours very
truly,
''William D. Haywood"
Orchard Holds to Story.
The defense attacked the letters
and Orchards story about them when
it got chance to cross-examine the
witness, but Orchard held to the story
he told. The witness successfully de-
MED that he had made an arrange
ment for the delivery of the letters to
Pinkerton agents; that the letters had
only made their appearance since he
left the stand last week, or that he
had invented the story because his
wife had Haywood's letter in her pos
session. He swore positively that
Haywood had agreed to write the
Alaska letter and that Pettibone and
Meyer knew of the arrangement
1t was day of correspondence and
documentary evidence Besides the
four San Francisco-Alaskan letters,
the state secured the admission of
lceftified copy of an unsigned letter
which Orchard got at Caldwell Jail
and which Orchard swears was in the
handwriting of Pettibone. The letter
was as follows:
December 80. Friend Tom: Your
letter received. That was sent to
Jack December 81 for you. He should
send it so that you ought to have it
by this time. Will not write any more
this time. Write me as soon as you
get to your new field"
The letter was postmarked at Den
yer on December 30. the day that
Steunenberg was killed, and it is
claimed by the state that the Jack"
mentioned was Simpkins and that the
that referred to was $500 which Or
chard swore he asked Simpkins TO
secure for him when he was leaving
Caldwell
Had Sold Hercules Mine.
To combat the theory that Orchard
killed Steunenberg in revenge for his
loss of valuable interest in the Her
eules mine. the state on redirect ex-
animation obtained from Orchard q
declaration that he sold his interest In
the Hercules in 1897, two years be-
fore the strike and troops came. The
defense attempted to modify this by
getting the witness to admit that he
had not sold his interest in the Her
cuies. but had pledged itSand could
aaye taken II back any time up to his
flight from north Idaho. before the
oncoming troops. but Orchard adhered
to the statement that he had sold out.
right.
Al the opening OF the, morning ses-
sion the defense asked Orchard a