Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-06
HARRY ORCHARD
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and was brought to the court house
in carriage with three armed guards.
In the chambers of the Judge he was
turned over to Deputy Sheriff sRas"
Reamer, who is to be his special
guard at the trial.
Strangers entering the court room
were searched for weapons, and when
Orchard reached the building the
doors of the trial room were locked
and extra deputies posted outside the
rail.
Sheriff Shad Hodgins cleared an
aisle back Of the seats of the Hay
wood party, and when he got the
signal from the judges chambers that
all was ready, he nodded his head to
Mr.. Hawley. Gall Harry Orchard z
said the states leading counsel in a
loud tone. The chambers door swung
open and out marched Orchard, led by
Ras Reamer and followed by two PEN
itentiary guards and two detectives,
all armed. They marched around the
rail and then faced the crowd while
he climbed to the witness chair. Far
in the room man stood up to get a /,
better view and deputy sheriff
shouted: sit down." Other deputies
instantly started forward and the
man took his seat quickly.
There was few preliminaries as to
Orchards birthplace and real name
and his first days in the north Idaho
country and then Hawley led him
down to the destruction of the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mine.
He was telling of the meeting Of
the Burk union of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners when the defense
made it's first strong attack. Attorney
Richardson objected on the ground
that the events occurred years before
Haywood was a member of the cen
trail body of the federation and that
he in no way was connected with it.
Senator Borah contended the state
had right to prove facts about the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine for the
purpose of showing why the Western
Federation of Miners had taken UNI
bragg at Governor Steuenberg. Judge
Wood ruled that general facts were
admissible but put a limit on details.
Hershey then told Of blowing up the
| property, saying that w. F.. Davis,
| later president of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners at Cripple Creek, had
command of the mob. He told Of the.
seizure Of a train. the theft of giant.
powder, attack upon the mine and
concluding said ss.
4 lit one of the fuses myself
/ Hershey then told of his flight into
Montana and of various journeys in.
the western country until he turned up
in Cripple Creek in 1902, went to
work in the mines and Joined the
Western Federation of Miners again
Under renewed objection from de-
Tense. all of which was oVerruled by
the court the witness told of he plot
to blow up the Vindicator mine in
which Supt. Mccormick and Foreman
Beck were killed. Five hundred dol
lars, he said, was his reward for the
murder. Then came journey to
the court the witness told of the plot
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone. Next
came the plot to dynamite Peabody,
and Hershey said they made bombs,
but gave up the plan at the sugges-
4 ton of Haywood, who was in fear they
would all be arrested.
He said that he and Adams were
told to lay off for time, but mean
| time Pettibone suggested that they
kill Lyle Gregory, who had been a
deputy sheriff and had given testi-
mony against members of the fedora
/ ton. Witness then detailed the re-
i lentless trailing Of Gregory and his
final murder
Gregory turned and backed up
against a fence" said the witness aas
IF to draw a gun. and I shot him three
times, II certainly killed him.
, This tale of cowardly man-hunting
and killing seemed to play with great
er intensity upon the nerves of the
i men and women who listened to Hers
ley than on any Of the others and .