The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-06-13
ORCHARD MEETS ALL
ATTACKS0 Defense
WITHsTANDs EVERY ATTEMPT
70 DiscREDIT HIS STORY.
PLOT TO BLOW UP 100 MEN
Dlabolical Scheme at Globvlle Stopped
by Haywood, Says Witness
First Effort to XIII
Peabody

| of the Haywood defense on the testi-
mony of Harry Orchard goes on unre-
mittingly, and the witness will proba
| bly, be continued on the stand for two
| full days more. Orchard withstands
the strain with remarkable fortitude
and at the end Of six days shows no
indication of mental or physical flag
| ging.
| Tuesday began with the story of the
dynamiting of Fred Bradley in San
Francisco, and the defense made a
long and determined effort to expose
several features of it to doubt, i'm
probability and further discrediting,
and to vitiate 1t all by revealing the
hand of the Pinkertons.
| Then the play went back to Denver
for the winter of 1904-5 nd the sbffngi
/ that followed, and there was an eek
tended effort to show that Orchard
had practically no communication
with the leaders of the Federation;
that he received no pay for the Brad
ley crime, or anything else, and that
with Steve Adams, in period of ex-
IRENE poverty extending over period
| of several months, he was reduced to
the necessity of stealing a sheep from
the Globville stockyards that he might
| have food 4-#h
Admits He Stole a Sheep.
| Orchard, to a laughing courtroom,
| seriously confessed that he stole the
sheep, but stoutly denied that it was
because of want. He insisted that all
through that supposedly hard winter
and spring he continued to draw
money from Pettibone through Adams,
and explained that If he did not see
the Federation leaders often it was be-
cause he was lying low to avoid cap
ture for previous crimes.
This Globville inquiry developed
more shocking crime. At this Denver
suburb there was a diabolical plot
Orchard swore it was inspired by Max
| Malich, the defense claimed that Or
| chard was it's authorize dynamite
| boarding house where $50 nonunion
men lived, and in preparation for the
murder en- bloc Orchards, Adams and
q man named Joe Mahalich broke into
two magazines and stole 500 pounds of
dynamite which. they lugged home at
night and buried in their cellar. The
crime was abandoned, Orchard said in
one of those flashes that make his
| testimony remarkable, because Hay
wood interviewed and forbade him to
have anything to do with it.
Drew Relief to Avert Suspicion.
! Carrying out the lines of testimony
tending to show that Orchard, regard
less of the great hold which 1t is pre-
| sumed he had on the Federation
leaders, was frequently without funds,
the defense showed that from late in
1903 until the middle of 1904, Orchard
continually drew strike relief at Grip
pie Creek, and then dramatically IN
vited Orchard to explain the incon-
sistency to the jury. Orchard replied
that Haywood, Meyer, Parker and
Davis all advised him to continue
drawing relief, because II he displayed
money he would excite suspicion.
The examination next covered re-
view of the earlier attempt on the life
of Gov. Peabody and the making of
| the bombs to kill him and the plots
| against Judges Gabbert and Goddard,
with an effort everywhere to tighten
and cast doubt upon the testimony of
| the witness. Orchard told dramatic
story Of the first attempt to assassin
| ate Peabody--an early morning drive
through the snow to place the bomb
and wait for the victim, who was
| spared by the unexpected 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 field.
Says Mrs. Adams Helped.
Orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adams
into play Tuesday. He said that while
he and Adams were watching Judge
Goddard's house Mrs. Adams went
suspicion from them. Mrs. Adams,
who had seat among the witnesses,
| laughed when Orchard told the Incl
dent.
Orchard, who confesses that he hest
| tated at no crime and took hundred
desperate chances in those he commit
ted, made an interestingg contribution
to the psychological study of his per-
sonality when he called himself a
coward. He said he was too cowardly
| to openly kill Judge Gabbert; said
that he regarded all his acts as cow
ardly.
In five minutes Tuesday Orchard
! showed more emotion than at any
time since he began his testimony. 1t
was when the defense. in rough
shod depression, asked him IL he had
not deserted his Cripple Creek wife,
stripping her of every nickel she had
and leaving her in poverty that com
| PEELED the sale of her washtub to buy
bread. Orchards lips quivered and.
with tears near, he falteringly denied
that he had done so and said that Fed
GRAFTON leaders had promised to care
| for her In his absence. s~@sH
| Another Tornado at Duquoin.
Duquoin. ILL.,. June ia tornado
| passed over this section Tuesday
night. doing heavy damage. 1t is re-
ported that there has been loss of life,