Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-19
TELLS OF ADAKS CONFESSION.


 Says Haywood, Mover and Pettibone Promised to Aid Him If In Trouble.
 Helped to Delude Mrs.
 Orchard. BOISE, Ida, June 19.-The prosecu- tion in the Steunenberg murder trial offered one of Its most important pieces of evidence against William D. Hay wood when, recalling Harry Orchard for redirect examination, it introduced four letters tending to show that Hay wood during the fall of 1905, when Or chard swears he was engaged on vari- ous crimes for the federation leaders, had participated in plan to deceive Mrs. Orchard of Cripple Creek as to the whereabouts of her husband.
 Over a variety of protests from the defense Orchard was allowed to tes- tify that early in the summer of 1905 Haywood told him that Mrs. Orchard was writing for information as to Or chard's whereabouts. Orchard swore that he wrote Mrs. Orchard a series of letters that were falsely dated and de- livered to Mrs. Orchard by agents of the Western Federation of Miners. Or chard said that he first wrote two let ters, dated San Francisco, and had them delivered through Paddy Mulli- ney, who represented the federation at Cripple Creek Orchard identified the two letters and, overruling all objec- tions of the defense Judge Wood ad- mitted them.
 "why did you tell Haywood, Mover and Pettibone that you had given the letter to your wife to Paddy Mulliney and had dated the letter from San Francisco?" - "The reason is,' said Orchard very deliberately, that my wife had told parties that if she knew where 1 was she would sooner see me in jail than not know where I was.'
 Next Orchard swore that he wrote third letter purporting to come from Nome, Alaska, and that, under the gen. eral arrangement he had made with the federation officers, Marian Moore carried the letter to Nome, where he went as organizer of the federation, and posted it. This letter, bearing the date of Nome, Aug. 5, 1905, was pro- duced, Identified and admitted as evi- dence. Orchard then identified letter which Haywood himself wrote to Mrs. Orchard, and that was admitted in evi- dence and handed to the jury as show { ing that the prisoner haHknowledge of the Alaskan story.
 Orchard also testified that the replies of Mrs. Orchard were sent to him through Haywood.
 When Orchard took the stand 1t was made evident that the defense pro- poses to bring a number of witnesses to prove that Orchard had for years nursed a vengeful spite against Steu- nenberg and had repeatedly made threats against him.
 Do you know Max Malich of Den- verr asked Richardson.
 "Yes, sir"
 "Did you in June or July of 1905 say to Max Malich. you and he being alone, ] luul yOu Ncic eoihs to NH StOuheh berg even if you had to swing for it?"
 'No, sir. I never had any such con- versation."
 Did you say that Steunenberg was mean and that had 1t not been for Steunenberg you would have been a millionaire, because you had owned a sixteenth share of the Hercules mine and that Steunenberg had driven you out of the statef"
 Mir. Richardson asked him if he knew Lottie Day of Denver and of meeting her in a room at the Belmont hotel and telling her that he intended to kin Steunenberg. This also the wit ness denied.
 Orchard was asked if he had ever re- ceived instructions from Haywood, Mover or Pettibone as to what he should do if he got into trouble. , "Yes, I had" replied Orchard. They , told me any time got into trouble not to write or wire them; that they would send some one to look after me-"
 The question of the right of the state to go into any statement made by Ad- ans to Orchard was argued by both sides, and an objection by the defense was overrnled. Continuing. Orchard said, Adams saw an attorney in the jail some days before he saw McPart- land, and after he saw Mcfarland he talked to me about making a confes- sion"
 !. Here the defense fought hard to pre- vent this testimony from coming out. Judge Wood ruled that the state
 "Adams told me-" said Orchard. "that could not be alone in making a confession. but that he thought be . would make a confession himself"