Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-27
Denver Woman Testifies that
Murderer Threatenedto Get
Even With Steunenberg
for Persecution
OLD SOLDIER GIVES
TELLING TESTIMONY
owears Orchard Told Him
He Was in Mine Owners
Employ and Federation
Was to be Crushed

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Boise, June 26.-The Haywood trial
was resumed this morning with Lottie
Day of Denver, on the stand.
The witness related a conversation
with Orchard when the latter told her
that poverty had separated him from
the one woman he loved and sthat
devil of Steunenberg" was respons.
ible for his being poor; that he would
get oven with him 1t it was the last
act of his life.
Mrs. Day said one day when Orchard
was telling her about his gambling ex.
ploits he said he always kept little
money put away and that when he
rox-ue a raise, he put some money
away with Pettibone and drew it out
as ne needed 1t.
Old Soldiers Telling Testimony.
The next witness was John b ELL.
OFT, an inmate of the Soldiers home at
I Boise. He detailed a long conyersa.
tion he said he had with Orchard on
train In November. 1905, when Or.
chard told him he was In the en1ploy
: Of the mine owners; tnat the Western
Federation Of Miners was going to be
crushed and that within thirty days
something would happen that would
startle the world
This was about five weeks before the
assassination of Steunenberg
Orchard, when confronted by Ell
liott declared he had never seen the
man before.
Blizzard on Stand.
Ira BLIZZARD of Cripple Creek, rail
way conductor and yardmaster, was
called to the stand as the first witness
after recess.
Did you testify before United
States commission appointed to inves
tigate Cripple Creek disturbances 2"
asked MI. Darrow.
No, sir," replied the witness.
'Do you know K. G. Sterling?"
Yes, sir
The witness said he understood Ster
ling vas in tne employ Of the mine
owners association, and that he had
communicated with Sterling at the
headquarters of the association. Biz.
ard was contracting agent for the Flor
ence & Cripple Creek railroad at the
time of the independence depot ex.
plosion. He Immediately went there
and saw the wire and chair rung
/ which served as clues.
The defense claims the Independence
depot was all but an abandoned af
fair, and that. its destruction might
have been planned by others than the
Western Federation of Miners.
What sort Of a depot was it?" ask
ed Mr.. Darrow of the witness.
"The depot was in good condition"
replied BLIZZARD "It was a nice up-to
date station with good waiting
room. it had platform in front of
It,"
Says Orchard Was at Mullen.
BLIZZARD was followed on the stand
by Dr. A. L. McGee formerly physi
,ian and surgeon in the Occur d'Alenes
Ind now mining broker.
Where do you live?" asked Darrow.
"On Occur d'Alene Lake"
Right On the water?"
Noon boat" replied the wit
ness amid laughter.
He said he had known Orchard since
1897; Orchard delivered milk to his
house
Tie dav Of the Bunker Hill and Sui
aiyan mill explosion at Wardner. Nc.
Gee said he thought he saw Orchard
ut Mullen-eightee miles distant II
am not sure of it, but If am not mis-
aiken saw Orchard playing poker
hat day in saloon or cigar store, .
said the witness.
DR.. McGee also related conversa
ion he had with Orchard in the Occur
lAlene in 1904. Orchard, according
% the witness, said he was "spotting'
for a detective agency.
On cross examination the witness
Faid he saw Orchard at the depot one
day at Wallace, Idaho. talking to a
man named Cunningham.
Next came F. R. Redo, a miner now
living at Goldfield. Nevada. but for
merly of Cripple Greek. Redd said ne
had known Harry Orchard a long
while In Union hall No. 40 at Cripple
Creek in 1909, he said he had con.
versation with Orchard In which the
latter called Governor Steunenberg
hard names and said he was responsr
lble for his poverty and that he would,
get even with the governor.