The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-13
ORCHARDS
 EXAMINATION
Haywood Attorneys Are Cross Questioning the Prosecutions
 Star Witnesses.
Defense Has Already Laid the Foun- daton for Showing that Orchard Was Not at Wardner the Day the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine Was Blown Up.


 Boise, Idaho, June S.--The cross examination of Harry Orchard, lead ing witness against William D. Hay wood, has been carried down to the dynamiting of the vindicator mine at Cripple Creek, Col, in September. 1903 and it's progress indicates that 1t will consume much more time than the direct examination After protest from Orchard against the speed of Attorney Richardsons ques- tions, which he said cut off his an swers. and wrangle between coun- sel on the subject, the cross examina- ton of the witness as to his expert ences in the Couer dAlene country was resumed.
 The defense laid the foundation for showing that Orchard was not at Wardner the day the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine mill was blown up, and then passed on to the life of Orchard In Utah in 1899, 1900, and 1901. The witness owned up to a lot of gamb- ling at which he repeatedly lost his earnings. The defense showed that until after he went to Cripple Creek in the autumn of 1902. Orchard had never known Haywood, Mover, Pet tisone or Simpkins. The witness con fessed that he stole ore and powder from the Vindicator mine.
 The witness testified that he heard Mover and Haywood deliver speeches at Cripple Creek after the strike of 1903 began, protesting against any violence by the union men.
 Attorney Richardson sought to show that Orchard had suggested blowing up the powder in the vindicator and while the witness admitted that he told w. F. Davis of the existence of the powder and that the idea of get ting it off had come to him. he swore that Davis first suggested the act.
 Orchard identified William Easter ly, who at the call of MT. Richardson eame from the back of the court room, as the man who had aided him in the experiments that led to the making of the bomb finally used in the Vindi- cator
 At Thursday afternoons session Orchard lifted the total of his own murdered victims to IS, detailed the circumstance under which he tried to murder Former Governor Peabody, Judge GabbeTt, General Sherman Bell, Dave Moffat and Frank Herne. In cidentally he confessed to a plan to kidnap the child of one his former associates. Then under cross exami- nation by the defense Orchard con fessed guilt of the sordid social crimes of deserting his young child and wife in Ontario, fleeing to British Colum- oia with Hattie Simpson. the wife of another man. and committing bigamy by marrying a third woman at Grip Dle Creek, through the shocking de tails of murder plots, stories of secret bomb making, and tales of man hunts with sawed off shot guns and internal machines. as weapons the witness went on in the same quiet offhand manner that marked his demeanor Wednesday His voice dropped to tower keys as the ritIful story of the long hunt for Steunenberg narrowed down to the last day and he told of the race from the hotel to the home 70 beat bis victim with the death trap md the meeting in the evening gloom .s the victim walked unconsciously to ais doom. Thrcugh 1t all he winced sat once and that was when the de- fense made him name his six sisters and his one brother and eive their residences in Ontario and New Yerk