Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-07-11
Denies story Told BY Orchard,

day. and his cross-examtnation ha{
not been completed when court ad
1ourned. Harry Orchard testified tha
Davis led and commanded the mol
That destroyed the Bunker Hill ane
Sullivan mill in 1899; inspired, as the
agent OF Haywood and Meyer, the Vim
dlcator explosion and the train wreck
Ing plot at Cripple Creek, and was al
accomplice in the Independence sta
ton crime.
Denies Orchards Story.
On direct examination by Clarence
barrow he went over the story of hi.
working life, including the pathetic
story of the death of his wife and
babe at Cripple Creek, at which ht
wept, and made positive denial o
every statement of Orchard that in
volved him or his associates in an,
form of crime. He denied that he
was even a member of the union
when the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine was blown up, and at the con
clusion of his general story swore
that at Cripple Greek, during the
strike, Orchard told him of the Her
cules mine affair and threatened
To Kill steunenbera.
Mrs. Lottie Day of Denver testified
that in 1904 Orchard told her about
the loss of the Hercules interest. and
that he said he would kill Steunen
berg for the wrong done him. and
John ID. Elliott swore that Orchard
told him i'll Idaho in 1905 that he was
in the employ of the mine owners
and that there was plot against the
federation and its leaders.
Judge Wood Rules Against Haywood
Boise, June 20. - A ruling made
yesterday by Judge Wood while Ed
ward Boyce, for years the leader OF
the Western Federation of Miners
and now wealthy mine owner of the
Occur d'Alenes, was testifying in be-
half of William d. Haywood. may ma
terially limit the showing of the de-
tense as to the existence of the coun.
ter conspiracy against Haywood and
his associates which it alleges.
Claims Same Latitude as State.
James H. Hawley, for the state. OBJ.
jected to general question as to the
policy and practice of mine owners
throughout the West in blacklisting
union miners, and in the argument
that followed Clarence barrow, for the
defense, claimed the same latitude in
proving counter-conspiracy that the
state enjoyed in showing a conspiracy
Mr.. Hawley contended that the state
had directly shown the existence of a
conspiracy by Harry Orchard, and by
so doing had laid the foundation for
and made the connection of all the
evidence subsequently offered on the
subject. He said the defense was try.
ing to show a counter-conspiracy by
proving various isolated instances and
certain general conditions, none Of
which was connected with the case
and for none of which proper foun-
dation had been laid.
Court Sides With State.
In ruling the court accepted in part
the contention of the prosecution. and
limited the proof of the defense along
these lines to events in Colorado and
the Occur d'Alenes connected with the
case as now established.
Ed Boyce was the principal witness
of the day. and his testimony was
chiefly devoted to the history, pur.
poses and work Of the Western fedora
ton. He denied the existence of an
inner circle" or that there had ever
been conspiracy in the organization
or an illegal act.
Still Try to Discredit Orchards Story.
Boise, Idaho, June 80. - The attor-
neys for Haywood continue to center
their efforts on the discrediting OF
Harry Orchard and the establishment
Of their claim that Orchard killed
Frank Steunenberg in revenge for the
loss of his interest in the Hercules
mine. Yesterday they directly attack.
ed the story Of the Vindicator explo-
sion with the testimony of witness
who made it appear accidental rather
than criminal.
indicator Explosion.
Thomas Wood, a non-unionist, who
entered the Vindicator mine as TIM
Der man after the strike began, swore
that the night before the explosion he
placed box containing twenty-five
pounds Of dynamite at the shaft of the
eighth level. He saw the powder the
next morning shortly after 10 o'clock.
and few minutes later Supt. McCor-
mick and Foreman Beck came to the
eighth level. They remained but a
short time and left to go to the sixth
level, where they were killed. Wood
swore that when he reached the shaft
twenty minutes later, the powder was
gone and it was reasonable inference
that Mccormick and Beck took it with
them.
Contradicts Orchard.
; Wood testified that he had seen {
9 revolver in Beck's pocket; that the
a fragments of only one revolver were
J. found in the sixth level, and that the
!, bodies of Mccormick and Beck were
blown apart, indicating that the ex
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