The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-12


the draft was sent and that he ever counter
signed any check with which to purchase
the draft. He did sign a check for some
thing over 5000 about December II, which
was for Simpkins's customary expenses
AS a member Of the executive board. lie
had already testified that no federation
money could be drawn by check without
his countersignature. Somebody VIII surely
have to explain for the defence where that
500 draft came from and who paid for II
THE CIPHER TELEGRAM.
Senator Borah then went into the matter
of the cipher telegram which Lawyer Oar
row had identified the day before. The
State has a copy of that telegram. ~ was
left curiously up in the air on the direct
examination, but under the senator y
questioning il soon became clear enough.
He gave Meyer a copy OF the Declarations
ritual book in which il contained the federa-
TONS cipher code. Then he read the num-
hers Of which the telegram il composed
eighteen standing for the letter G." twelve
for the letter ID" and so N asking Meyer
to translate the numbers with the aid OF
the code. This he did one by one and
at the end he had spelled out this MESA ge:
Cant get a lawyer to defend Hogen.
Ans"
TO HAYWOOD at Denver from Spokane on
January 4. 1905. four days after Orchard
was arrested and Just about the time that
Jack Simpkins retired into the obscuriy
from which he has never since emerged.
Q. ANY correction In that translation that
Won would like to make? A. No. l think We
have correctly translated II.
o. DO YOU know why Jack Simpkins sent
YOU such n telegram on the attn day OF january!
4. No. sir, | do not.
d. Have Won ever talked with him about
IL 4. No, never saw him after that. !
wrote to him from Chicago. / think. and In
my opinion Simpkins wrote a letter to head
quarters about that telegram. either to MIR.
Murphy. our lawyer. Of TO MIR. Haywood. but
! never saw II.
o. hid YOU make any effort as president
Of the federation TO satisfy yourself whether
this man Orchard was guilty before you
undertook his defence? A.. No. We expected
to determine that on the preliminary eIamina-
tion of the case.
q. Did YOU believe that you could protect
the honor Of the federation by protecting
the man who killed Frank Steunenberg? A..
did not believ We at that time that he had
done it,
Q. Did YOU make az effort to learn from
Jack Simpkins what NJ knew about it aud
about Orchard d s doings? 4. Maybe Simpkins
wrote to Murphy or Haywood or possibly TO
me about II.
Mover said thai when Fred Miller. the
Spokafe lawyer, came to Denver the last
OF January, he brought word from Simpkins
about the case. At that very time the offi
GERS Of the law were after Simpkins and he
was in hiding.
gave Miller 81 500 to undertake the defence
of Orchard Borah demanded to know
il in all the months that had elapsed since
the killing OF Steunenberg that the Fedora
ton had made a single effort to know
whether Orchard had spent some time in
EollryolI vvhaf ha had done there or what
his movements had been previous to the
murder.
No. sir. I don't think we did make any
direct effort" said Meyer. L didn't know
Simpkins was in Caldwell with orchard
until after the assassination
he?"
NO, sir, what the organization did was
entirely voluntary
QUICK To DEFEND
He admitted that he knew that Lawyer
Miller started for Caldwen five days after
the murder to defend orchard; mat two
DAYS later Lawyer Nugent was engaged
to defend him and the federation interests
and that not long after that Lawyer j.. 4.
Sullivan of Denver called on Orchard in
Caldwell.
Even after the murder Of Steunenberg
neither W. F. Davis, Easterly. ID. c. Copley
for any of the federation members that
have testified to hearing Orchard threaten
S~teunenberg ever said anything to Meyer
having heard those threats. Meyer
said he knew that Simpkins had disap-
peared only from reading 1t In the news
papers. He would not know where to
find him.
d. You know where to find all the other
members OF the executive board OF the fede-
ration, don't you? A. Yes. I think ! do.
O. You we're asked II you did not see a
picture Of Orchard in a newspaper after his
arrest. You didn' need any picture to
identify him after you got that cipher tele-
gram from Jack Simpkins. did you? A.
Well, no: we got that wire from Simpkins
and we thought that referred to Orchard.
I didn't know that Orchards other name
was Hogan, but I think MIR. Haywood did.
HAYWOOD TAKES H STAND.
II was nearly noon when they finished
with Meyer, and Haywood was reserved
for the afternoon session. When that
time came the court room wasIfull despite
the heat and-oh. yes, those flies.
Haywood got up fromnthe chair he 90.
cupied for nine long weeks o walked
with his clumsy gait to the Witness stand.
Lawyer Darrow started In upon him at
once. $4,000
HAYWOOD said his name was William
Dudley c.. Haywood. that he wa born In
Salt Lake City thirty-eight years ago. His
father was Of Scottish descent n was