The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-06-14
ORCHARD
A BAD ONE
HAL HIM.
SELF A DEMON.
A BIGAMlST, THIEF, LIAR, In
CENDlARY AND
MURDERER.

BOISE, IudnO, june -Oio"iJ ~
surely the defense is developing the
lines by which it hopes to break down
the story of Harry Orchard, SO far as
it affects Haywood, now on trial, and
Meyer Or P%ettibone, who are yet to
be tried on the same charge-com-
plicity in the murder of Ex-Governor
Frank S~teunenberg at Caldwell, Idaho.
If it is possible to heap further
obliuuy on the witness they have done
SO by proving him capable OF petty
crimes. BY his own admission he Is
a bigamist, a thief, a liar and an In
cendiary. He has played traitor TO
his employers. He has deserted two
wives and his child. To all these Of
fenses he has been forced to confess,
but under a grueling "cross-examlna-
ton by the defense he has stuck to
his story and given chapter and verse.
Possible witness after witness has
been named and counsel for the de-
tense state most positively that the
pile OF sworn testimony they will
bring to contradict Orchard must con-
vince the jury of the entire falsity OF
his testimony.
BY their questions they have plain
" indicated their intention to prove
that Orchard was the hired agent OF
the mineowners, who, harassed by the
Western Federation Of Miners, deter
mined to wipe union labor from the
mines of Idaho and Colorado, planned
assassination, train wrecks and mine
explosions that could be laid to the
door of the Western Federation OF
Miners and would keep militia on the
ground while nonunion men worked
in the mines.
1t has been shown under the cross
examination that Orchard trafickec
with railroad detectives in the mining
region Of Cripple Creek during the
great strike there, while almost at the
same time he was in the confidence o.
the leaders of the Western Federation
of Miners, and led by Mr.. Richardson
Orchard stated that, he was hiret
by Meyer, the president of the fedora
ton, to act as his guard against tn
thugs alleged to have been hired b!
the mine owners
From half a dozen states witnesse
will be called to deny Orchards as
sertions. Already two men accused b,
Orchard of completely in the plots h
says were Matched by the Inner Gil
Gle" of the Western Federation hav
been called upon the stand in ope'
court, where they sat as spectators
Orchard identified them as the men h
named, and Billy Easterly and Owne
Barnes have openly sneered their d.
NAL of the testimony.
The cross-eXamination OF Harr
Orchard, by his own confession tn
slayer of 10 men by bullet and bonn
is likely to last through Monday an
Tuesday of this week, and possibl
longer.
He has told what appeared to be a
incredible story spread over the
years of his life, the first 30 years b
ing merely commonplace, the story
a poor Canadian farmer, but begil
ning with the year 1895, he unfolde
a career IN which, to use the words
the leading counsel for the state, "a
s%assination was a trade and murder
means of livelihood"
Orchard spared no incident OF n
more recent life, under the questio
ing of the state, that might prove
the Jury his readiness to slaughter II
low wage, and how Indifferent he M
been a sto the number or conditit
of his victims. This story, broug
out by counsel for the state was, no
ever, merely a synopsis of the pill
whose acts cover the years since Ss
In every act the climax sent a shudd
through a crowded courtroom.
Steve Adams, waiting his secol
trial for the murder Of Fred Tyler-tl
Adams who was the pal of Harry {
chard-was taken from the county j
at Rathdrum, Idaho, by two office
from Boise and started on his way
Boise to testify in the Haywood tri
Mrs. Orchard backs out and now
fuses to go to Boise from Colorado
testify in noted case.