The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-07-05
The TRIAL AT BOISE
Discrediting the Story of Crime as
Told by Harry Orchard
Goes on.
A NEW THEORY ADVANCED
They Attempt to Show That the Ex-
plosion in the indicator Mine
Was an Accident-More of Or
charS': Threats.

Boise. Idaho, June 27.-William +.
Davis of Goldfield, Ney., one of the
most important witnesses for the de-
Tense of VIM. D. Haywood, accused
of the murder of Frank Steuneb Oerg
was called to the stand at noon We'd
ne'sday and his discrimination had
not been completed when court ad-
journed Harry Orchard testified
that Davis led and commanded the
mob that destroyed the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan mill in 1899, inspired,
as the agent of Haywood and Meyer,
the Vindicator explosion and the train
wrecking plot at Cripple Greek, and
was an accomplice in the Independ-
ence station crime.
On direct examination by Clarence
barrow he went over the story of his
working life, including the pathetic
story Of the death of his wife and
babe at Cripple Creek, at which he
Wept. and made positive denial of
every statement of Orchard that in
volyed him or his assistants in any
form of crime He denied that ne was
even member OF the union when the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine was
blown up and at the conclusion Of
his general story swore that at Grip
pie Creek during the strike Orchard
told him of the Hercules mine affair
and threatened to kill Steunenberg.
The Discrimination of Davis oy
Senator Borah was severe and search
ing and was chiefly devoted as far as
it proceeded with the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan affair ami the circumstances
under whicn Orchard made the threat
against Steunenberg. Davis asserted
that he remained at Gem the day the
Bunker Hill mill was blown up and
while he said he saw the train in
charge OF the masked mob arrive at
and depart from Gem he could not
name any one on the train except the
engineer Hutton. He said there was
no excitement and he made no in
quiry about the mob. He said that he
remained in hiding after the mill was
blown up because he did not want to
be deported or thrown into the bull
pen" and that he changed his name
when he departed for Butte shortly
after because he feared the mine own
ers' blacklist made up from a petition
that the employees of the Bunker Hill
had sent to Governor Mcconnell pro-
testing against the unsafety of the
thot tho npfi-
ton had been presented six years be-
fore and that Butte was federation
camp where the blacklist was ineffec-
tive. Passing to the threat Orchard
made against Steunenberg the witness
was unable to recall what anyone else
had said on that occasion except the
words of Orchard. Davis returns to
the stand Thursday morning.
Boise, Id, June 2S.-A ruling made
Thursday by Judge Wood. while Ed.
Boyce. for years the leader of the
Western Federation of Miners. and
now a wealthy mine owner Of the
Occur, d Alenes. was testifying In be-
half of William D. Haywood. may ma
terfally limit the showing of the de-
Tense as to the existence of the
counter-conspiracy against Haywood
and his associates which it alleges.
James II. Hawley for the state. OBJ
jected to a general question as to the
policy and practice OF mine owners
throughout the west in blacklisting
union miners. and in the argument
that followed. Clarence barrow for the
defense claimed the same latitude in
proving counter-conspiracy that the
state enjoined in showing a cOnspir-
lacy.
Mr. Hawley cOhteuded that the
state had directly shown the existence
J Of a conspiracy by Harry Orchard and