Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-08

conducted in an abandoned smart mouse.
Soldiers were stationed within 300 yards
but nobody said anything about the re-
volver shots and exploding caps.
Whose revolver did you use?"
"My own"
Orchard said Easterly told him he
could not be mixed up with the eXplo-
sion as he was an officer of the union.
For the second attempt at the mine
Orchard said he was promised $500.
"Were you going to fire the carload
of pcwder?"
"No, it was to be a bomb this time"
Supt. Mccormick and Melbeck were
killed a week later Orchard supposed
| their death was due to the bomb. "Bil-
ly" Alderman helped him place the
bomb.
In June, 1903, Orchard said he mar
ried Mrs. Ida Togy, widow with three
children. Her house was but a short
distance from the Vindicator mine. The
| witness said she continued to live there
so far as he knows.
Orchard said he went to Davis and
Parker for money after the death of
Mccormick and Beck. They promised
some the next day Orchard admitted
| he had felt 'sore" because he had been
| refused money for his first attempt on
| the mine
Asked why he had informed the Flor
| ence and Cripple Creek Railroad Co. OF
| the miners plot to wreck the train, Or
| chard said he was perhaps little jeal-
| Gus because he had not been employed
| on the job. The luncheon recess was or
| dered at this point.
| Eesuming the stand at the afternoon
| session of court, Orchard said that
prior to his marriage in Colorado he
| lived at johnny Neville's house at
| Cripple Creek. He admitted taking
| some high grade ore from a room
mates trunk and selling it for $40. The
| roommate, John Thompson, had high
| graded" the ore.
After first reporting to d. c. Scitt, Il
| detective of the Florence and Cripple
| Creek Railroad, about the attempt to
| wreck a train, Orchard said he had
| seen the officer several times. He denied
that he was reporting to the detective
| Orchard also said he had been to see
u. c. Sterling, who had charge of the
| detective force of the Mine Owners
| Association.
| Didn't You tell Scott and Sterling
| that you We're going to the headquar-
ters to get something against the lead
| ers of the Western Federation of Min
ers?" asked Richardson.
| II told Scott l was going to try to
| find something about Easterly."
Scott, he said paid his expenses to
| Denver and Meyer paid them after he
| got there.
1 81 -,
| to find out something about Haywood
| and Moyer?"
Yes, told him that"
Orchard denied that he had ever Civ
en- any information concerning Meyer
or Haywood and said he was lying to
Scott when he promised to get infor-
| nation for him.
| Attorney Richardson again began to
interrupt the replies of the witness to
some of his questions and this brought
out a protest from the prosecution.
"1ou must not lift the lid without ex-
pecting what is beneath to come out"
tainted Senator Borah for the state
when lift the lid want it to come
| out replied Mr.. Richardson. Then af-
| ter a moment he added Il know that
this lid has been fixed up for US and
| what's beneath is also fixed.
II Hawlcy was on his feet in jiffy.
"If you make a statement like that
/ shouted to Richardson, "You make a
statement that is absolutely false
II proceed, gentlemen called out
| Judge Wood.
Richardson did not reply to Hawley,
Il but again took up the cross eXamina
ton.
Il don't know anything about a Id
| replied Orchard. Orchard said he had
never told Detective Scott and Sterl-
| ing about the explosion in the Vindi
Gator mine.
Il Richardson questioned the witness
Il closely as to the shaft he used in enter
| ing the Vindicator mine. He said he
went down No. II to place the bomb.
Didn't you say the Whiting shaft
yesterday"
II mo"
HAS some one told you since yester-
day morning there is bulkhead which
prevents entrance to the mine by the
Whiting shaft?"
mo, SIR
"Havc you seen Detective Mozart
land since yesterday"
4 yes"
"Ah, ha," cried the attorney. GLOW
long were You with him."
\ 81 saw him for five or ten minutes in
4 Mr.. Hawley's office today at noon.'
4 Orchard said that when he returned
i to Cripple Creek he reported to De-
tective Scott and Sterling but did not
| tell them about his interview with Hay
wood and Meyer.
| At this interview Meyer and Hay
wood had told him, Orchard said. to get
! busy at Cripple Creek and do whatever
he cOuld-that he could not go too far
| for them. Meyer gave him $50 and
| Haywood said he could get more when
| ever he wanted it,
| 80 you never was broke after that 2"
| suggested Mr. Richardson.
II was broke several times, but got
money every time l asked for it,
orchard was next told to describe
| the making of the two bombs in Grip
| pie Creek, which We're to be thrown
| into the indicator coal bins. The
witness said he stole the powder from
man named Charley Perkins He