The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-07-26
A MANIA FOR MURDER
Richardson Declares Orchard Clio
ried in Spectacular Crime.
CITES sTEuNENBERG CASE
Daily Opportunities Presented to the
Assassin to Kill the Governor With
Comparative Safety to Himself, but
Orchard Desired Publicity.

Boise, Ida, July 24.-Declaring
Harry Orchard was a mar possessed
with a lust for murder-a desire to
glut a d]isordered brain with blood of
his fellow man-Attorney Richardson,
continuing his plea for the life of
William D. Haywood, told the jury
that the defense was ready and willing
to admit that Orchard accomplished
the taking off of Governor Steunen-
berg in the Ii described by him
or the witness stand.
Orchard was painted as a man who
fancied there was glory in spectacular
crime. Day after day opportunity
was presented to him to kill Steunen-
berg in comparative safety to himself,
but rather than shoot a man whose
giant stature, the attorney said, Of
fered a target as "big as the side of a
barn door," Orchard planted a bomb
and planned the deed so that it might
attract the greatest amount of atten-
ton.
OF. Orchards story of many of his
attempts upon the lives Of men said
to have been marked for death by the
federation Mr.. Richardson said it was
the most absurd thing IN the face of
the earth. He declared that it would
be a long time before the law would
sanction a conviction on such testl-
mony as has been adduced against
Haywood and he pleaded with the jury
not to put a halter about the neck OF
his client at the behest of the Mine
Owners association and its represen-
tatives."
In resuming his argument Mr.. Rich
ardson reverted to the Bradley explo-
sion in San Francisco briefly to call
attention to the testimony of a witness
who said Orchard declared Bradley
got what was coming to him and
there's Il chap named Steunenberg
who is going to get his"
Absolutely No Confederation.
Tracing Orchard back to Denver,
where he made the second attempt on
the life Of Governor Peabody, Mr..
Richardson declared that absolutely
no vi Cl1Ou 1lou UCS1 LAS1So w
Orchards story of setting the bomb
under the sidewalk and it's failure to
explode because of a coal cart driv-
ing across the wire. The attorney
also declared that no sufficient ex-
PLANTATION had been offered as to why
Orchard abandoned from time to time
these attempts on the lives of Gov
1r,@- Do,Io1x, 1,,1onc GnH11C6 on1
Gabbert, Sherman Bell and Hearne.
DO you suppose, gentleman Of the
Jury" asked Mr.. Richardson, that il
a murderous inner circle of the West
ern Federation of Miners had marked
these men for death and had hired as
sassins to do their work they would
have been so easily and without ap-
parent cause deferred from carrying
out their design? Do you Imagine
they would stop until their purpose
had been accomplished?
When you consider all the testimony
in this case 1 think you will reach
with me the conclusion that this man
Orchard was possessed of a mania to
go out and kill. Sometimes his lust
was greater than at others and so it
was that sometimes he was strong in
his purpose and sometimes wavered.
His testimony shows a d%esultory,
maniacal method of pursuing the VIC
Tins selected for death for some
fancied grievance against himself or
perhaps the organization to which he
belonged. Why, gentleman, Vaughan,
the insurance agent who travelled
with Orchard. slept with him and
knew him as we'll as anybody could,
tells you that Orchards talk at times
made him think the man was bug
house Orchards is the most absurd
story on the face of the EARTH"
Moffatt a Friend Of Haywood.
Richardson ridiculed Orchards story
as to being ordered ito get" David H.
Moffatt, president Of the First Ma
tional bank of Denver. He declared
that Haywood deposited all the funds
of the federation in this bank and was
"a constant visitor there.
think of that, men, and yet this
creature, covered with the slime of
his past crimes, comes here and would
have you believe that Haywood was
planning to commit murder on the
man to whom he was entrusting the
funds of the organization of which he
was secretary treasurer-upon David
II. Moffatt, with whom he was on
terms of almost intimate friendship.
Everything connected with this matter
gives the lie to Orchards monstrous
story"
Coming again in tie course of his
arguments to the death of Governor
steunenberg Haywood's counsel said
that the defense was ready and willing
to admit that Orchard committed the
deed exactly as Orchard described it.
Richardson declared that Governor
steunenberg's immense stature and
the freedom with which he went
about the country made him a shining
mark for assassination. He could
have been shot by ANYBODY able to hit
the side Of a barn door" asserted
Richardson. There was not a week Of
his life that he could not have been
safely killed had there been a desire
for his taking off in anything but q,
spectacular manner l say to yoa that
Orchard had a. mania for committing