The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-19


was as follows:
Alleged Pettibone Letter.
Dec. 5O.-Friend Tom: Your letter
received. That was sent to Jack Dec
you ought to have it by this time. VIII
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 Dee. go the day that Steunen-
berg was killed, and it is claimed by
the state that the Jack" mentioned
was Simpkins and that the that" re
ferred to 800 which Orchard swore he
asked Simplins to secure for him when
he was leaving Caldwell
The state developed its contention
that as tending to show a conspiracy
and knowledge of the Steunenberg
crime Orchard was. without any re-
quest from him, furnished with counsel
within a few days after his arrest. 1t
first showed that Orchard, after his
arrest, sent no communication from
Caldwell Jail. and then produced and
secured the admission of the original of
the following telegram:
Telegram from Spokane.
Receivers number. phone time filed
80 p. m, nine paid, charge Robertson,
Miller & Rosenfelt, Spokane, Wash,
Jan. 3, 1906:
ITO T. Hogan, care Sheriff, Caldwell.
Ida.-Attorney Fred Miller will start
for Caldwell in the morning-M., 50
hyde block
The defense examined Orchard on
this subject and largely devoted itself
to showing that the Western Fedora
ton of Miners always provided coun-
sci for its members wherever and
whenever they got into trouble.
To combat the theory that Orchard
killed Steunenberg in revenge for his
loss of a valuable interest in the Her.
cules mine, the state on redirect exam
nation obtained from Orchard a dec
laratiOn that he sold his interest i'm the
Hercules in 1897, two years before 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 Hercules. but
had pledged it, and could have taken it
back any time up TO his flight from
north Idaho, before the oncoming
troops, but Orchard adhered to the
statement that he had sold outright
There was long contest over an IN
successful effort by the state to show
that the confession of Steve Adams
had been voluntary. 1t managed to
bring out that Adams had once dis
cUssed the matter freely with Attor-
neys Hawley and BOrah, but that was
about as far as it got. the court sus-
tanning a series of objections from the
defense.
AT the opening of the morning ses-
sion the defense asked Orchard a series
of impeaching questions. They all dealt
with conversations i'm which it was al
legged Orchard Tecited his private
grudge against Frank SteunenbeFg and
vowed that he would kill him if he
hanged for it. Orchard denied every
query both specifically and generally.
Ed BOyce. once president of the
Western Federation of Miners, and
now one of the owners of the rich Her
cules mine, came after Orchard, and
was still on the stand when the court
rose for the day. He was called to
identify the Miners Magazine as the
officials organ of the Fedora ton, and
to pave the way for the use as evil
dence of a great number of articles
from the magazine. The defense was
given articles for examination tonight
and the row over their admission win
come first thing tomorrow morning.