The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
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--~-~---~-~---~-~~~-~----- Idaho, was in the bull pen" in 1S99 and was called to testify as to the condi- tions in the military prison. He said Jack Simpkins, accused of complicity in the Steunenberg murder was a fellow prisoner
 Were you eyer trfed?" asked Darrow. ''Yes sir"
 What for?"
 "To find what I had been arrested for" Did you succeed?'
 No sir
 The prosecution objected to this testi- mony as to the "bull pen," but it was allowed upon statement of MT. Darrow that it was intended to show the motive of Simpkns for acting with Orchard, both men, it being alleged having a personal grudge against Governor Steunenberg. Hough said from 300 to 400 miners were crowded into the "bull pen' during the hot months of summer of 1899. One quar- ter of the men were ill most of the time The prison was guarded by the troops of the regular army.
 What sort of troops?" asked Darrow. "Colored troops.'
 Brownsville Troops.
 Was it the same regiment that after wards went to Brownsvlle?"
 "BrownsVille?" ?" repeated the witness, somewhat puzzled. T can't say as to that"
 I've are not going to investigate that affair are we?" questioned the judge of the attorneys.
 Well. l guess not" drawled Darrow after pause.
 "If you do we'll send for Foraker," de- clared Senator Borah.
 Hough told of an incident which oc- cured on a hot day in July when Jack Simpkins was taken out doors and made to stand in the sun for six hours without water.
 What was his condition?" asked Da- row
 He seemer to be suffering considerably. Every time he tried to sit down the sol- djers trained their bayonets on him. Did you see them jab him with their bayonets?"
 No sir
 Meets Orchard.
 Hough said he met Orchard at Wallace, Idaho, in 1905. Orchard said he had just come from Alaska. He also said if 1t had not been for Steunenberg he would have been rich man.
 Cross-examined by Senator Borah, Hough said he was in Gem the day the miners went through on train bound for the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine at
  not all masked He did not see any arms, either.
 "Who arrested you when you were taken to the bull pen?
 "A deputy they called Death On the Trail '
 Any other name?'
 That's the only name I knew"
 Stage Driver.
 James H. Ramey, q former stage driver and rancher in the Occur D'Alenes, was the next witness He knew Orchard quite well and had met him upon the road be- tween Gem and Wallace on May 2 1899, three days after the Bunker Hill and Sul- livan explosion.
 He told me I was the man he wanted to sec" said RaL-.s. "IIe said he wanted to sell his o-e-sixteenth interest in the Hercules mine and get out of the country before the soldiers came in. He wanted s4C0 for his interest. saying the Hercules would make a mine some day. Under cross-examination Ramey said Orchard was riding horseback when he saw him.
 Did he tell you he had given a title to his property to a man named Cor | dova?"
 No sir. I turned the proposition down cold" Asked how he happened to remember the conversation, Ramey said: When they struck it rich in the mine, I thought a lot about the offer I had turned down. !" James A. Baker of Slocum, B. C., a miner and prospector, was the next wit | ness Baker has been a member of the Western Fedora ton of Miners since 1899
 Baker Arrested. He was in Denver during a large part of the Cripple Creek strike and assisted in running the affairs of the organization