The San Francisco call., 1907-06-15
BY Oscar King Davis

est IN the haywood trlai DogSeO
down badly today, as far as Boise
was concerned. With Orchard off
the stand there was room for visit
ors in the courtroom besides the
array of witnesses who have been
in attendance for several days.
But if the proceedings were far
from being as interesting or as
exciting as during the time that
Orchard was reciting his terrible
story, they were of Importance to both
sides.
The state continued its corrobora-
tion, with which il began as soon as
Orchard was excused. 1t introduced
evidence Of substantial Importance on
several points. Every bit of this evil
dence went in over the vigorous OBJ
lection of the defense Richardson
and Darrow NOT only fought its intro
Guetion. but made their record clear by
moving to strike out after it had been
admitted.
Senator Borah conducted the direct
examination Of the witnesses and Dar-
row did the most Of the cross eNamina-
tion. The morning session was enliv-
ened by one tilt between them. which
made things look very sQually for
moment DarrOW was stirred up to
the point of answering the judge very
cavalierly, but he cooled of quickly
and -the examination moved on as
smoothly as ever.
ATTACKS THE PINKERToNS
The cross examination Of all the wit
nesses revealed the antipathy Of the
defense to the PinkertOn detectives
Whether il was conducted by Richard
son or by Darrow. the witness was al
ways led to tell how q Pinkerton man
had arranged to have him or her come
TO Boise to testify and had advanced
money for expenses of the trip The
amount Of money each witness had re-
ceived since arriving here was also
brought out and the expectation, if
any, of more.
It seemed 10 be especially a point
OF grievance with the defense that the
Pinkertons should have anything 10 do
with the preparation of the case for
the prosecution and with securing the
attendance Of witnesses. Just what
element of wrong or injustice the de-
fense expects to show that there is in
paying witnesses their expenses. in ad-
dition 10 their fees did not develop. 1t
may be that il viii show that its own
witnesses are not paid and thus are
more likely to be disinterested.
There was not 4 witness Of the seven
or eight examined during the day who
had much more than detail TO cover.
Sometimes they We're details which in
themselves were of little Importance,
but taken together they formed a link
in the circumstances that the state will
argue substantiates the story of
Orchard.
C0RROBORATION Is STRONG
SOit was with the matter Of the first
money that was sent TO Orchard after
he was sent TO san Francisco to try TO
kill Fred Bradley. He told of reeeiv-
ing a registered letter which contained
money from Pettibone He was then
staying at the Golden West hotel under
the name Of either Dempsey or Hogan,
he did not remember which. BY the
evidence OF three government employees,
the assistant postmaster at San Fran
cisco, a clerk in the Office and a clerk
in the Denver office. it was shown that
on August 10, 1904, a registered let
ter was mailed in Denver by J. Wolff of
1925 Stout street. addressed to John
Dempsey, Golden West hotel, San Fran
cisco.
The assistant postmaster of San
Francisco produced some of the Of
in them the record of this letter in it's
passage from Denver TO its delivery
through Station K of his Office. Then
the registry clerk Of Station K iden-
titled in his receipt book the signature
of the man who identified himself TO
be John Dempsey.
Orchard in testifying said that in
signing that registry receipt he pur-
posely wrote as illegibly as possible
The clerk was not permitted to en-
deayor TO decipher the name this morn
ing, but the book itself. with the other
two that completed the record, was sub
mitted to the inspection of the jurors
and the proceedings were halted for
few minutes to permit them to take
good look at all three Two or three
OF them got their heads together over
the puzzling signature and were puz-
zling over il when the judge informed
them that they must make their exami-
nation each for himself and without
consultation with others.
PRETTY GIRL TEsTIFIEs
The clerk from the Denver Office. who
was a stylish and very ornamental
young woman. furnished an important
link in the chain by adding that the
address given by the sender of the let
ter was that of Petitioners store. The
state win show by other witnesses that
J. Wolff was the name of one of Petit
bones employees.
Thus il was shown that at the time
when Orchard says he got money. in a
registered letter from Pettibone. sent
under the name of Wolf, there actually
was sent through the mails a regis
tered letter from a J. Wolff. who gave
the street number of Pettibone's store
as his own address, to man in the
Golden West hotel in San Francisco,
whose name Orchard was using.
The first witness on the stand this
morning both corroborated and con-
tradicted Orchard. This was Guibbinni,
the grocer who introduced Orchard to
the servants in the Bradley family. He
swore to having identified Orchard. as
he saw him on the witness stand, as
the man Barry whom he had known in
San Francisco. His account of their
meetings and talks agreed with Or
chard's in the main, but was more de-
titled.
He said that Orchard or Barry had
described himself as a gambler who
Y--de his living by playing with the
soldiers at the post He disa greed
with Orchard as to the occasion of
their last meeting. Orchard testified