The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-15
FOLLOWING UP THE
ORCHARD TESTIMONY
State Introduces Evidence in
Support of Details AL
ready Sworn To.
DEFENSE CONTINUES ITS VERY
RIGOROUS SS-EXAMINATIoN
A MEETING BETWEEN Or
CHARD AND PEABODY-THE
STATE'BRINGS ADAMS AND PET
TIBONE INTO EVIDENCE.
lRONE INTO EVIDENCE.
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Boise, Idaho. June 1f.-The state
began at tOdays trial Of Haywood to
introduce cOrrobOrative evidence OF
Orchards testimony. BY Postmaster
McGaughey and employees of the San
Francisco post office, and by Miss
Pearl Moore, of the Denver office, il
was established that Orchard. as J.
Dempsey. received a registered letter
on August 13. 1904. from j. Wolf, OF
1925 Stout street. Denver which was
the address of PettibOne.
CrOss-eXaminatiOn by the defense
was confined almost entirely TO qUes-
tiOns concerning how the Witnesses
were secured, and by whom they were
subpOenaed The replies were al
ways Identical by PinkertOns-"
indicator Case.
Then followed Clarence HaTrah,
cageman at the Vindicator mine. He
said there was a car of powder in the
mine in 1903, as Orchard testified;
covered a man in one of the tunnels,
who shot at him, and he returned TO
the cage.
During Harrah's testimony.
woman among the spectators Missed,
and Judge Wood said that if any
demonstration of any kind occurred
in the future, he would clear the room.
Steve Adams.
Steve Adams was produced in court
this afternoon and identified by the
officer of the Southern Pacific railroad
who arrested him at Ogden in June,
1903. J. F. Pender, city detective
of Ogden, also identified Adams, and
said ne sent a telegram addressed
Wy. d. Haywood, Denver" asking for
money.
Judge Wood made an order requir-
ing the telegraph company to pro-
dUce HaywOOd's application for an
Adams money order
Pleaded for Wetter.
At the close of Orchards testimony
on Thursday, Mr.. Richardson asked:
You know Bob Wetter at the pen
itentiary?"
Yes"
He was sentenced to death and
the date of his execution fixed when
you spoke TO Governor Gooding about
him and had his sentence cOmmuted
to life imprisonment
Il talked to the governor about
Wetter, and said that I was sorry for
him. ] did not believe him a bad
man. and if ne were given stay
something might turn up to show him
in a different light Wetter's sentence
was subsequently colAmuted by Gov
ernOr GOOding."
After Orchard.
Immediately after Orchard left the
stand. The state began the cOrrObora-
tion of the Bradley poisoning story.
Mrs. Sadie Swan. who as Miss Sadie
Bell was maid in the Bradley home;
Oliver Crook. the miIkman VINO sold
the milk. that was poisoned, and p.
L. McCredry. jhc chemist who an
aIyzed the poisoned milk. carried the
revolving tale from the discovery be
cause OF its bitterness that the milk
was poisoned 10 the analysis that
showed from forty to sixty grains of
strychnine in a quart OF it.
Mrs Swan identified Orchard and
connected him with the house. They
all confirmed the date as within three
or -four days Of the explosion, and
Ms. Swan swOre that she opened the
front door to get the morning paper
- few minutes before the explosion,
and saw nothing on the steps. There
Will be further testimony as to the
Bradley incident Tomorrow
Orchard sand Peabody Meet.
Immediately after the noon recess,
former Governor Peabody. Of CoIora-
do. met Harry Orchard in the Office
OF the counsel for the prosecution
The meeting was unexpected as far
as Orchard was concerned. and when
he saw Peabody advancing toward
him with hand Outstretched he
blanched and began TO tremblc.
i am ashamed to speak To YOU
Governor: I am ashamed to look at
YOU" faltered Orchard.
oh. that's all right" said Pea
body, laughing You need not be
ashamed TO speak TO me now"
Orchard began crying, and when
Peabody succeeded in reassuring him,
he said:
4 am glad they didn't kill you, and
that l am spared the thought of that
crime at least
Orchard and Peabody spent fifteen
or twenty minutes together and part
ed in a very friendly way.
Buggy Overturned.