The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-19

Boise, Ida, June 19.-The prosecution
in the Steunenberg murder trial Of
fered one of its most important pieces
of evidence against William j. Hay
wood today when, recalling Harry Or
chard for redirect examination, it intro
,dgeed and secured the admission of
6our letters tending to show that Hay
wood. during the fall of 1905. when Or
chard sweaTs he was engaged on Vari-
Gus crimes for the Federation leaders,
had participated in plan to deceive
Mrs. Orchard, the second, OF Cripple
Creek, as to the Whereabouts of her
husband
over a variety of protests from the
defense Orchard was allowed 10 testify
that early in the summer of 1905 Hay
wood told him that Mrs. Orchard was
writing him for Information as to Or
chards Whereabouts. Orchard swoTe
that he proposed that he should write
his wife i series of letters that were
TO be falsely dated and delivered to
Mrs. Orchard by agents of the FEEDER
alton.
He said that he first wrote two let
tiers which he dated at san Francisco
and had them delivered through Paddy
A1ulliney, who represented the FEEDER
alton at Cripple Greek. Orchard iden-
titled the two letters and, everything all
objections of the defense, Judge Wood
admitted them.
One Letter Posted at Nome.
Next Orchard swore that he wrote a
third letter puTpOrting to come from
Nome. Alaska. and that under the
general arrangement that he had made
with the Federation officials, Marion
Moore carried the letter to Nome.
where he went as organizer of the Fed
Grafton, and posted it. This letter bear
ing the date of Nome. Aug. 5. 1905, was
produced, identified and admitted in
evidence.
Orchard then identified a letter which
Haywood wrote to Mrs. Orchard and
that. too. was admitted i'm evidence and
handed to the jury. 1t was as follows:
Denver, Nov. Is, 1905.-Mrs. II. Or
chard.-Dear Madame and Sister: /
have not heard word since I saw you.
The last information I got was from
Alaska l think Fairfield was the
name of the place. l see that awful
conditions prevail among the law and
order clement. Yours very truly,
WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD"
The three letters written by Orchard
were commonplace and contained prac-
tically nothing bearing on the case, or
Orchards testimony except references
10 the arrangement which Orchard
says he made with the Federation Off
ckals for the care of his wife while he
WIS absent.
Stuck to His Story.
The defense attacked the letters and
Orchards story about them when il
got a chance to crOss-eXamine the wit
ness, but Orchard held to the story he
told about them. The witness success
lively denied that he had made an ar
rangement for the delivery of the let
tiers to Pinkerton agents. that the let
tiers had only made their appearance
since he left the stand last week. or
that he had invented the story because
his wife had HaywoOd's letter in her
possession. He swoTe positively that
Haywood had agreed TO write the
Alaska letter, and that Pettibone and
Meyer knew of the arrangement.
1t was a day of correspondence ard
documentary evidence. Besides the
four San FranCiSCO-AIaSk letters the
state secured the admission of a certi-
fed copy of the unsigned letter which
Orchard got at Caldwell Jail, ard
which Orchard swears was in the