Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-07

/ OF amy sort be committed. saying they
would surely be charged up 10 the
Western Federation Of Miners,
HAYWOOD CAUTIONED STRIKERS.
Haywood spoke to the same effect
oauuoning the strikers against drinking
and gambling as we'll
DIDN'T Haywood say that the mine
owners would like violence for they
| could then bring in troops and break IN
the union7' asked Richardson.
y don't remember that"
Didn't he say that any violence
would react on the union and was not
TO be cnuntcuanced?
II believe he did"
With man named Scholtz. Orchard
SAID he went 10 the Vindicator mine TO
attempt to fire the powder. eager
discovered them and they shot az him
This incident caused an abandonment
OF the plan of blowing up the mine at
the time. Orchard said the mine was
guarded by the militia when he and his
companion went down, hut there was
one passage left unguarded. Two
months later the matter ,f blowing IN
the mine was again taken UP.
Then who suggested II this timeg"
demanded Richardson.
sherman, Parker and Davis"
PLAN TO FIRE PONDER.
Orchard said the plan this time
was TO attach q pistol TO q lift bar
al the seventh level. The cage would
lift this bar. discharge the pistol into
q box Of giant caps which in turn
would fire rhc powder.
Orchard said viii Easterly helped
him conduct experiments along this
line.
Is Easterly in the room ." asked
Richardson in a loud voice.
A man stood up in the rear Of the
court and was commanded by the at
torney for the defense to come down
the center aisle and confront the wit
ness.
is that the Easterly you mean
Richardson asked Of Orchard
The witness looked at tho now
conner and quickly replied:
That's the man.
Orchard said the experiments We're
conducted in an abandoned shaft
house. Soldiers were stationed within
500 yards but nobody said anything
to the revolver SHOTS ana exploding
Whose revolver did you use?"
MY own"
Orchard said Easterly told him he
couldn't be mixed up with the eX-
Did you ask him to participate"
"No."
he declined without being asked ?"
Yes, ne said he was an officer Of
the union"
SECOND ATTEMPT.
For the second attempt on the mine
Orchard said he was promised $500
Were you going 10 fire the carload
OF powder"
H. hon l.a EFFa-
Supt. Mccormick and Mel Beck we're
killed a week later. Orchard supposed
their death was due TO his bomb Bill
~" Ackermah helped him place the
bomb
In June, 1903, orchard said he mar
ried Mrs. Ida Toney-a widow with
three children. Her house was but
short distance from the indicator
mine. The witness said the woman
continues 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 admit
ted he had felt "sors" because he had
been refused money for his first at
tempt on tho mine,
Asked why he Informed the Florence
and Cripple Creek Railroad company
Of tho miners plot 10 wreck the train,
Orchard said he was perhaps a little
Jealous, because he had not boon em-
ploy0d 10 DO the job.
The luncheon recess until go D. m,
was ordered AT this point
EVIDENCE DOVETAILs.
Denver June Following the tes-
timonY az Harry Orchard the princi-
pal witness In the Haywood trial. in
terview5 with several persons referred
10 are printed I'm local papers this
morning. supreme Justice w. II,
Gabbert. who Orchard SAYS was the
intended victim Of "a bomb laid In
vacant lot through which the judge
was in the habit of travelling to and
from the capitol building, says that
Orchards testimony Cts IN with the
Incidents connected with the Killing
OF Wally by tho bomb intended FOR
him quite exactly.
Mrs. James Peabody. wife Of tho
former governor recalls distinciE tho
night whom two men followed her
carriage. Orchard told of following
the governor carriage on certain
night for the purpose of Killing him,
but that thoy discovered mat GOV.
Pclhody was not an occupant and
gave IL up.
Jacob Wolf through whom Orchard
said he communicated Win petlibouo
Nehcmcnuy denied That he had ever
acted as an intermediary IN handling
mail from Orchard 20 Pottibone.
Max Mallich prominent politician
and la Dor union man OF GlohcWllc
s0vs that Orchnrd told him he would
kill GOV Stelnenberg because the lat
tor mad prevented him from becoming
q millionaire, orchard reasoned, ac-