Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-06-07
CROSS EXAMINATION OF.
HARRY ORCHARD
BEGINS
Prisoner Witness UnmOved
but OBJECTS to Rapid Fire
of Questions by At
tOrneys for Defense.
RETOLO v|ND|CATOR
EXPLOSION STORY
Relates Accounts of Plots and
Killings of His Associates and
Other Miners Without Least
Attempt at Reservation or
Show OF Feeling.

Boise, Idaho, June Harry Or
chard took the stand this morning
for the third day of his examination
as the principal witness against Will
lam ID. Haywood, charged with the
Steunenberg murder.
The cross examination of Orchard
Will take the entire day, and possibly
all of tomorrow also.
The prisoner witness shows no sign
of fatigue.
Haywood shows little concern. He
even asserts that Orchard connects
him with the many crimes partly out
of spite and partly at the suggestion
of the detectives and the enemies of
the Western Federation of Miners.
Gambled Considerably.
When Orchard resumed the stand
this morning Attorney Richardson
began at once to ply him with a rapid
fire of questions.
Orchard protested to the court, say
ing that he would like the opportun-
ity of answering before being inter
rupted
THE witness will be allowed to
answer all questions without inter-
ruption," said Judge Wood, sternly
Orchard admitted that while he
was in the Idaho mining country he
became quite a gambler, playing
poker most of the time.
Lighted Fuse at Wardner.
He declared, in answer TO a ques-
ton, that he was not at Burke or
Mullen playing poker when the
Wardner explosion occurred, and re-
iterated his direct testimony that he
lit one of the fuses that blew up the
Wardner mill.
He said he did not know Haywood,
Meyer or PettibOne at that time, and
a = ia a ha In In
Wardner when the mill was blown
up.
Orchard said that he left Idaho
after the blowing up of this mill t.
avoid arrest.
From 1899 to 1902 he said he
worked an average of ten or eleven
months per year in the mines Of
Utah. Nevada and Arizona. He
gambled part of that time and nearly
always lost, he said.
Nindicator Plot.
Orchard said that he went on the
strike with the other union men at
Cripple Creek in August, 1903.
The strike committee was composed
of w F. Davis, Sherman Parker and
man named Kenniston.
He reported TO Davis the fact Of
his knowing the location Of a carload
of powder in the Vindicator mine,
" mere ne udu liSn Efdutuf anu
Davis offered him S200 to touch Off
this powder.
There were about fifty non-union
men working in the mine and the
witness believed touching off the car
load of powder would have meant the
death of all of them.
Caution Against Violence.
orchard said that Meyer and Hay
wood both came to Cripple Greek
during the strike, and in speeches
cautioned the strikers against vio-
lence, drinking and gambling.
The plan to touch Off the powder
in the NindicatOr mine was abandon
ed because the mine was guarded and
he could not find the powder.
Two months later the matter was
taken up again at the suggestion Of
Davis and Parker,
VIII Easterly, Orchard declared
helped him experiment along the line
of attaching a pistol to the lift bar
which the cage would lift, discharg-
ing the pistol into a box Of giant
caps, which in turn would fire the
powder.
Identities Easterly.
Attorney Richardson called Easter
ly from the audience and he was
identified by Orchard.
Easterly, Orchard stated, declined
to have anything TO do with the eN-
plosion which he caused subsequent
ly in the Vindicator mine i'm the man
ner outlined, saying ne was an officer
| of the union and he could not be
mixed up in such matters.
Was Jealous.
The witness i'm response TO a query.
| said that Billy Ackermau helped
him place the bomb in the Vindicator
mine.
Mccormick and a miner named
Beck were killed a week later by an
explosion and Orchard supposed tina.
their death was due TO his bomb.
Asked why he informed the Flor
ence & Cripple Creek Railroad COM
pany of the miners plot TO wreck
their train, he said that he supposed
/ he was a little jealous because he
had not been employed on the job.
A recess until afternoon was taken
al this point.
Orchard "A Puzzle.
The large audience which crowds
the court room has been unable -
fathom Orchard. Just how NAV
could be so ld-blOoded a. 10 have
caused the many murders ana great
destruction of property that he ad-
! mits. and be able 10 SO calmly tell is