The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-13

he got his money ana where he went
from time to time. Orchard said he
worked on an averags of ten or eleven
months a year in the mines Of Utah,
Nevada and Arizona. He gambled part
of the time.
Orchard traced his j~ourneyings from
place to place. The attorneys wanted
to know how much money the witness.
had at each place. Orchard supplied
the Information to the best of his recol-
lection, admitting that a large percent
age of his wages went over the gam
bling table. He seldom remained more
than from 70 three months In NJ
mining amp. Up to the time he went
to Colorado in 1902 Orchard said he
never heard OF Haywood. Pettibcne,
Meyer and Sinpkins.
AS an Ore Thief.
Orchard said he did not hear of
Steunenberg's action in suppressing the
Couer d. Alene troubles until sometime
after he left Idaho. He said it was
his own initiative which took him to
Colorado, and no n connected with
the Western federation had urged his
going. AT that time. July or August,
1902, there was no trouble in Cripple
Creek. Arriving in Colorado he went
to work in a mine and renewed his
membership in the federation, joining
the local headed by w. r. Davis. who
had been in charge of the party which
blew the Bunker Fill and Sullivan
mill.
Attorney Richardson asked the wit
ness repeatedly about his gambling
experiences, laying much stress on
this.
When he federation ordered the
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Orchard said he went out with the
other union men. The strike commit
tee was composed of w. E. Davis.
Sherman Parker and a man named
Remission. Orchard said he had heard
that Parker N Kenniston We're dead.
Richardson next took the witness
through his high grading experiences
in the Vindicator mine.
When you said the other day that
you had high graded In the Vlndicator
mine during the strike, o simply
near that you were an ore thief. didn't
yours
s"I don't know what you call it." re-
piled Orchard. I'VE took high class
ore out secretly, and sold It."
you often made as high as S25 or
$50 a day, didn't you from high grad
ing9
Yes,
Orchard said he also high graded"
w III "a NNOAA - oS4oAS
the strike.
Murdered Fifty for 5000.
Orchard said there were about fifty
non-union men working in vindi-
Gator mine. He believed h touching
off of a carload of powder would a
meant death to all.
And 0 proposed to murder fifty
men for S200?"S
Il proposed to touch off the powder"
said Orchard.
Orchard said Meyer and Haywood
came to Cripple Creek during the strike
and made speeches urging that no overt
acts of any sort be committed. saying
they would surely be charged up to the
federation.
They cautioned the strikers against
drinking gambling. Haywood said
any violence would react on the union
and was not to be co%untenanced.
Two months later the matter of blow
ing up the mine was again taken up.
WHO suggested it this timer
Sherman. Parker and Davis"
Orchard said the plan this time was
to attach a pistol to a liftbar at the
seventh level. The cage would lift the
bar n discharge the pistol into a 0
of giant caps, which in turn would fire
the powder.
Orchard said experiments were con-
Quoted in an abandoned shaft. Easterly
told him he could not be mixed UP with
the explosion, although he assisted in
conducting the experiments. For the
second attempt on the mine Orchard
said he was promised $500.
Fearful Confessions.
Orchard yesterday confessed that as
a member of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill in the
Couer d'Alenes he lighted one Of the
fuses that carried fire to the giant
explosive; confessed hat he set the
death trap In the Vindicator mine at
Cripple Creek that blew out the lives
of Superintendent Mccormick and
Foreman Beck: confessed that be-
u he had not been paid for his
first attempt at violence in the Vindi-
Gator mine lie had been treacherous to
his associates by warning the man
ayers of h Florence and Cripple
Creek railway that there was a plot
that he cruelty fred three charges of
buckshot into the body of Detective
Lyle Gregory, of Denver, killing him
instantly; confessed that for days he
stalked Governor Peabody about Den
Yer, waiting a chance to kill him: con-
fessed that he and Steve Adams set
and discharged the mine under the
depot at independence and confessed
that falling in al attempt to poison
Fred Bradley, of San Francisco, he
blew him and his house up with a
bomb of gelatine.
Orchard swore that after his visit
to Denver, when he got the money for
killing Mccormick and Beck, he was
constantly in communication and in
the pay of either Haywood, Meyer,
Pettibone, Simpkins or Davis; thai one
or all of them suggested his various
crimes, n that at all meetings a
after each crime his acts had beer
warmly commended.
ORCHARD DETAILS ACTUAL
KILLING OF STEUNEMBERG
Boise, June lot vas when witness
Orchard brought his long narrative
down to the place where Ex-Governor
Steunenberg. afterward killed, entered
into the event Orchard was relating,
that the interest in the court con
became most intense.
wv tried to locate Governor Steun-
enberg at once" said Orchard, but
could not. We went out to his res
idence several times and then finally
saw him in the Saratoga hotel on
Sunday evening. In the meantime we
had fixed up the bomb. SO Simpkins
and l took the bomb out at once and
set it under the sidewalk with a string