The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-12
Haywood Defense Makes Extend- ed Effort to Oiscredit Dyna-
 miting ofFrGd Bradley
ABANDON PLOT 10 BLOW UP
 15O NOE-UNION MINERS
Confessed Assassin Calls Himself d Coward-Shows Emotion-Lips Tremble Speaking of Aban-
 donment of Wife.

Boise. June 1.-The attack of the Hay.
 wood defense on the testimony of Harry Orchard goes on unremittingly and the
 witness will probably be continued on the
 stand for two full days more. This day
 began with the story of the dynamiting
 of Fred Bradley in San Francisco and
 the defense made long and determined
 effort to expose several features of 1t
 to doubt, improbabity and further dis
 crediting. and to vtiate it all by revealing
 the hand of the PinlSertons.
 The play went back to Denver for the
 winter of 19O4-05, and the spring follow
 ing and there was extended efforts to
 show that Orchard had practically no
 communication with the leaders of the
 federatlon that he received no pay for
 the Bradley crime or anything else and
 that, with Steve Adams in a period of
 extreme poverty, extending over a period
 of several months he was reduced to
 the necessity of stealing sheep that he
 might have food.
 1 Orchard to q laughing court room, se-
 riously confessed that he stole the sheep.
 but stoutly denied that 1t was because
 of want. He insisted that all through
 the supposedly hard winter and spring. 1 he continued to draw money from Petti- bone through Adams, and explained that | if he did not see the federation leaders often if was because he was lying low to avoid capture for previous crimes. This Globevile inquiry developed more shocking crime. At this Denver suburb there was q diabolcal plot-Orchard
 swore 1t was inspired by Max Malich.
 the defense claimed that Orchard was | it's author-to dynamite boarding house l where 150 non-union men lived. and in preparation for the murder en bloc, Or l chard Adams and a man named Joe 1 Mahalich, broke into two magazines and l stole 600 pounds of dynamite, which they | 1ugged home at night and buried In their l cellar The crime was abandoned, Or 1 ehard said. in one of those flashes that l make his testimony remarkable, because | Haywood interyened and forbade him to
 have anything to do with it.
 ' Carrying out the lines of testimony tend 1 ing to show that Orchard. regardless of | the great hold which 1t is presumed he
 had on the Federation leader. was who'll l ly without funds, the defense showed ] that from late in 1903 until the middle
 of 1904 Orchard continually drew strike | relief supplies at Cripple Creek and then l dramatically invited Orchard to explain l the inconsistency to the jury. Orchard
 replied that Mover, Haywood and Packer, i all advised him to continue drawing re- 1 lief because If he displayed money, he l would excite suspicion. The examina- ton next covered review of the earlier attempt on the life of Governor Peabody and the making of the bombs to kill him
 and the plots against Judge Gabbert and Goddard with an effort everywhere 10
 cast doubt upon the testimony or the witness. Orchard told dramatic story of the first attempt to assassinate Gov l lVlN mi
 through the snow 10 place the bomb and
 wait for the victim who was spared by the appearance of two coal wagons that coming from an alleyway were driven across the trigger string at the moment that Peabody was crossing the mine Held. Orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adams into play today. He said that while he and Adams were watching Judge Goddards house Mrs. Adams went with them couple of times as a blind to divert sus- pleion from them. Mrs. Adams. who had
 A scat among the witnesses laughed when Orchard told the incident
 Orchard who confesses that he hesi- tated at no crime, and took hundreds of desperate chances in those he committed, made an interesting contribution to the psychological study of hls personality when he called himself coward. He
 said he was too cowardly to openly XII
 Judge Gabbert; said that he regarded all his acts as cOWardly.
 In five minutes today Orchard showed
 more emotion than at any time since he began his testimony. It was when the defense, in rough show Aggression
 asked him if he had not deserted his Cripple Creek wife, stripping her of every
 nickel she had and leaving her in poverty
 that compelled the sale of her wash tub
 to buy bread. Orchards lips quivered and with the tears near he falteringiy denied that he had done so and said that
 the Federation leaders had promised to care for her in his absence.
 Orchard Resumes Stand. When Orchard resumed the stand at the opening of court today. Attorney Richard son continued to question the witness l about the attempts he made on the life of Fred Bradley in San Francisco Or chard said that he roomed near the Brad ley home, being able to overlook it from his bedroom window. The confessinS witness declared that he had bought some dynamite for a bomb before the attempt to poison Bradley with strychnine in the m..k had failed.
 Orchard thought it was the Judson
 Powder company that he bought the ex- plosive from.
 Asked about the appearance of the l clerk who waited on him. Orchard said he was youngish looking man.
 | In buying the powder, Orchard was re- 1 onired to give his name He could not l remember what name it was-a fictitious 1 me. As an excuse for buying the ten | hounds of dynamite, Orchard told the