Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-06-14
He is Accused of Swearing Falsely to
Save His Life.
WITNESS NEARLY BREAKS DOWN
He Weeps When Tale of David and
Uriah is Recited.
RECEIVERS HIMSELF QUICKLY
Defends Motive by Saying that He
Wants 10 Make Reparation by
Telling the whole
Truth.

] H"NNAAhB " save ANe UIe OF william
ID. Haywood and the good name Of tina
Western Federation Of Miners made their
greatest assault upon Harry Orchard today
when, carrying the review by cross -exam-
ination of his life of crime down TO his
confession. they bitterly assaiied his guild
Ing motives. Six days they spent in strip
ping him before the fury OF every shred
lof morality of character and then, suddenly
turning upon him in a final fierce. attack,
they fought with every means known to ie-
gal craft to convince the jury that Orchard
was committing a crime in falsely swear
ing away the lives of innocent men in tho
hope Of saving his own. They carried their
attack to the very language with which
the witness answered their questions and
| everywhere they alleged by forceful i'm
plication that 1t was put into his mouth
by men controlling him.
Witness sheds Tears.
The series OF quickly delivered attacks
give to the trial amid the scenes centerinR
around the high witness chair In Judge
Woods court depth of dramatic intensity,
compelling human interest that gripped
and held every man and woman who
watched and listened. Orchard failed when
they recited TO him the tale OF David and
Uriah that Detective Mcfarland related
to him when he came seeking a confession
He fought to save himself but tears filed
his eyes and he rocked unevenly like a
fainting woman His voice lowered to
huskiness, and he hid his face in a hand
kerchief Then he steadied himself and
went on strongly 70 the end He defended
his motives by saying that he had finally
experienced conversion and penitenoe and
had resolved TO make ali possible reparation
by freely confessing all. Mcfarland had
told him that he was doing a great service
for the state and that states were kind to
men who served them. There was no other
promise.
you knew that If you confessed to the
steunenberg murder the state would put
you out Of the way" hammered Attorney
Richardson.
YES SIR"
"And would do II quickly7"
II believed they would put me out of
the way"
But somewhere along the line tho
thought came to you that you could get
out Of It by laying 1t onto somebody
else7
mo. sir; that was not the thought at
ALL"
Orchard Explains Motives.
And here was that Orchard gave a
remarkable explanation OF the motives
that impelled him to confess. His voice
fell to a low tone, but there was no other
show OF emotion. Complete silence gave
every word to the entire room The whizz
OF an electric fan overhead was the sole
accompaniment of the recitation.
"I thought" he said, "of putting my
self out OF the way, but 1 thought over
my personal life. I did not believe in a
hereafter at all. but I was afraid TO die.
and I thought at times that had been
such an unnatural monster-my crimes
had been so great that I would not be
forgiven"
WHO told you that7''
mo one"
'who wrote that out for your"
mo one, but after had been sent a
Bible and had read It some came TO the
conclusion that l would be forgiven n
made confession OF everything. began
to think that the grave did not end every
thing, and I made up my mind to tell the
truth about the whole thing"
80 you thought you would make your
peace with the future by having some
body else hung, did your asked Mr..
Richardson.
mo, sir. I think any man can make
his peace with the future n he wants To.
believed II was my duty to tell the
truth. did not see any other way. re-
gardless Of the consequences to myself or
anybody else. I owed It to society,
owed II TO God and 10 myself"
The defense suggested that n Orchard
did not get the references TO his duty TO
society. God and himself directly from Nc
Partland, II was suggested TO him by the
oath he took when ne Joined the Western
Federation OF Miners They read him the
oath from the ritual. but when they did
that he expressed the belief that the Ian
guage had been given to him by the AL
mighty.
Promise OF Immunity Alleged.
For hours the defense hammered away
on the motive Of saving his own life. They
sought TO show it in tire force of example
drawn from the immunity OF the inform
ers in the Molle Mcclure cases, but this
the witness would not admit. Next they
sought for It In Orchards effort to bring
Steve Adams TO the state and then In the
subsequent meetings with Mcfarland and
Governor Gooding. once again they en-
phaszed the fact that the witness had
twice written his testimony out, but Or
chard repelled the suggestion that II had
been changed by Mcfarland. Attorney
Hawley or anybody else. After,thAt II was
suggested that Orchard had placed his
future in the keeping OF McPartland; that
the Pinkertons had sent money to his
family in Canada; that he had been sup
piled with dates 70 strengthen his story.
and that Mcfarland had trained him as a
stage manager would for his appearance
on the stand. but all this Orchard denied
Then they tried TO show him pampered.
petted. hero-like prisoner fed from the
table OF the guards. addressed as Harry"
by Governor Gooding and Warden Whit
ney, given freedom and liberties that no
other prisoner ever had in the world, and
all this consideration implying directly
that he would never be hanged for killing
Then came a showing as to
how the prisoner had been dressed and
groomed for the trial. and lastly, for