The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-04

il he ever tried anything OF that sort l
would denounoe him in my newspaper.
but he laughed at me and told me not to
get excited. Sol finally made mp my mind
he didn't mean It,"
The witness went on to repeat the GUS
tomsry Orchard threat against Steunen-
berg. only his time IL was varied by a
statement that Orchard ssid IL made him
sore to see all his old partners rich while
he was a wandering pauPer.
Coates told Senator Borah that he and
Haywood and Meyer had been close friends
for years n that he had been active in
labor organizations for a long time. having
once been president Of the Colorado State
Federation Of Labor. Persistent drilling
on Borah's part developed that Pettibone
was present hon Orchard displayed his
luminosity in July, 1905. IL was the second
time that Coates ever saw Orchard, the
wit said. that Orchard proposed to
steal Paulson's children. Paulson was a
near neighbor Of Coates.
you were satisfied he was in sarnest?"
Il thought 80 at first, but after that
thought he was joking said Coates.
Did you ever tell Paulson about the
children"
NO. never" Coates said Orchards
him much. At the tim he had not any
idea that Orchard really intended doing
the Ex-Governor any injury
Didn't you say 10 Deputy Sheriff Bee
mer.' demanded the Senator. that II
Orchard had ever spoken TO me about
stealing Paulson's children he never would
nave lived to kill Ste~unenberg?"
Il don't think 30, !" said Coates. obviously
a little rattled-"l don't think so. Il
what | think | said was that If Orchard
had done anything like stealing Pauison's
children he never would have lived to Kill
S~teunenberg
Mrs. Laura Joyce said she met Orchard
in n Cripple Creek boarding house used by
railroad employees on November II. 1903,
in company with Detectives Sterling and
Scott. This date was the date Of one Of
the attempts at train wrecking.
Mrs. Margaret Hooton, who with her
husband, q union miner, used to live IN
Anaconda in the strike days and helped
keep a union store there. told about the
store being looted 10y a mob on that mem
orable day of June q. 1904. She said
abe was twice arrested while attending To
the relief work of the union and was told
that IL she persistel in distributing relief
TO families of deportej miners she would
he deported, But she kept on handing ont
relief and was not deported.
Mrs. Anna VI Saunders used to run a
furnished room house in Cripple Creek
in 1903 and 1904 President Erhardt of the
Citizens Alliance tried tn get her to join
that organization but she declined, where
upon Erhardt said she'd have to or starve.
as the union was going to lie driven from
the district and the Citizens Alliance was
going To do il.
Henry Mahi was next sworn He is the
federation's prize exhibit OF the iniustices
practised by "A brutal c~Qnstabulary Pict-
ures representing him ked to IA telegraph
pole have been circulated throughout the
country. The pictures are fakes but
there IL reason TO believe that Mahi was
severely disciplined for declining to do
some work ordered by the militia iu Tellu-
ride in 1904. NAH is an Austrian, and it
was with difficulty that whqt he said
could he understood. but he finally man
aged to make the jury comprehend that
because he would not work at n sewerage
job the militia obliged him to embrace a
telegraph pole and then handcufed him
to il. He stayed there over two hours.
he said. and it was very cold. or strange
words to that effect.
Boston. July 3.-Prof Hugo Muenster-
berg. a Harvard psychologist. returned
last night from Boise. where he had been
studying Harry Orchard. He said
Every facility was given me to study Orch
ard. In addition to listening to him testifying.
spent eight hours with him in the peniten-
iiary. Orchard il a remarkable criminal. !
regard every word of Orchards confession as
true. and must also say that. Judging from
personal observation. Haywood is having a
perfectly fair and impartial trial.
Prof Muensterberg intends TO prepare
an account Of his Investigations for one
Of the psychological reviews