The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

Boise City Idaho June 6.-Harry Or
chard crowned his admissions of grave
crime today when continuing his case
amusement when Attorney Richardson
began his onslaught and brought out
Orchards domestic crimes.
There were the same precautions
and the same armed guards today to
protect Orchard and the same court
room scenes except that among the
spectators the women to men were
as two to one. There was another
rust for admittance, and the doors of
the court had to be closed at both ses-
sions.
Orchard finished his direct examina-
ton at 2:35 o'clock and the cross ex-
animation only reached to the Cour
d'Alene days of 1899 when the court
rose.
In his testimony Orchard after re-
ferring to a premature attempt to as
sassinate Governor ~Steunenberg told
this story:
eve had fixed up the bomb, SO
Simpkins and I tool the bomb and
against William d. Haywood, he made
a detailed confession of the murder
of Frank ~Steunenberg by an Internal
machine that directly opens the way
for his own conviction n execution
for the mortal offense. He swore that
the assassination of ~Steunenberg was
first suggested by Haywood, was plot
ted by Haywood, Meyer. Pettibone
AND himself, was financed by Haywood
:, and was executed by himself after the
failure of an attempt in which Jack
Simpkins had participated.
Orchard lifted the total of his own
murdered victims to eighteen, detail
ed the circumstances under which he
tried to murder former Governor Pea
body, Judge GODDARD, Judge Gabbert,
: General Sherman Bell, Dave Moffat
III Frank Herne.
Incidentally Orchard confessed to a
plan to kidnap the child of n of his
former associates.
Then under cross examination by
the defense Orchard confessed to the
guilt of the sordid social crimes of
deserving his young child and wife
in Ontario, fleeing to British Columbia
with Hattie Simpson, the wife Of an
other man. and committing bigamy by
marrying a third woman at Cripple
Greek.
Through the shocking details Of
murder plots, stories Of bomb making
and tales of man hunts with sawed
off shot guns and Internal machines
as apo the witness went on in
the same quiet off-hand manner that
marked his demeanor yesterday. His
voice dropped to a lower key as the
pitiful 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 OF his victim
with the death trap and the meeting
in the evening gloom as the victim
walked unconsciously to his doom.
Through it all he WINGED only once,
and that was when the defense made
him name his six sisters and his one
brother and give their residence IN
Ontario and New York. The defense
fought the story with multiplicity OF
objections and succeeded in heading
off an attempt to tell the story of the
murder of Arthur Collins at Tellu-
ride and temporarily shut out the con-
teats of a telegram received AND a tel
egram sent by Orchard after his ar
rest. Except for this the state man.
aged to get in its story intact.
The state today began its corrober'
alton Of Orchards crimson tale by
producing the lead casing of the Pea
body bomb. Orchard Unidentified it, he
swore that he brought it from Can
yon City to Denver and then on tt
Wallace, where he gave it to a NAL
named Cunningham. 1t was thrown
into the river and the state promises
later to prove its recovery.
Haywood and his kinsfolks listened
quietly to the long 1ecita1 and about
their first show of feeling was n OF
set it under the sidewalk with a string
stretched across the walk so when he
struck it it would uset the bottle OF
sulphuric acid. We went back to the
hotel to wait but heard nothing. At
ter two or three hours we went out
and got the bomb. We found ssome
one had broken the string but had not
upset the bottle. We hid the bottle in
some weeds.
stNext day Simpkins concluded that
1T might go hard with me il | Eas