The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-19
Help Deceive Wife as to Where- abOuts During Grimes for
 Union, Orchard SWeafs
HOLDS ID STORY IN FACE
 OF CROSS EXAMINATION
Prosecution In Steunenberg Murder Case Introduces Evidence Against Haywood When Orchard
 Is Recalled.

Boise, Idaho, June 1S-The prosecution in the Steunenberg murder trial offered one of it's most important pieces of evi- dence against William D. Haywood today, when recalling Harry Orchard for redirect examination it introduced and secured the admission of four letters tending to show that Haywood during the fall of 1905, when Orchard swears he was en- gagged on Various crimes for the federal ton leaders, had participated in plan 10 deceive Mrs. Orchard the second of Cripple Creek as to the whereabouts of her husband.
 Over a variety of protests from the de- fense, Orchard was allowed to testify that early in the summer of 1905 Haywood told him that Mrs. Orchard was writing him for information as to Orchards where abouts. Orchard swore that he proposed that he should write his wife series of letters that were to be falsely dated and delivered to Mrs. Orchard by agents of the federation. He said he first wrote two letters which he dated at San Fran Paddy Mullaney, who represented the iSueidtlon at CIlpple STeth. OrcHdIu identified the two letters and overruling all objections of the defense, Judge Wood admitted them.
 Next Orchard swore that he wrote a third letter, purporting to come from Nome, Alaska, and that under the gem eral arrangement he had made with the federation, the letter was carried to Nome and posted. This letter bearing the date nj identified and admitted evidence.
 Orchard then identified a letter which Haywood wrote to Mrs. Orchard and that too was admitted in evidence and handed to the jury. It was as follows:
 Denver, Colo, Nov. Is, 1905 Mrs. II. Orchard:
 Dear Madam and Sister, have not heard a word sinee l saw you. The last Information l got was from Alaska. think Fairfield was the name of the place. l see that awful conditions prevail among the law and order element
 Yours very truly,
 "WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD"
 The three letters written by Orchard were commonplace and contained prac- tically nothing bearing on the case or Orchards testimony, except references to the arrangement which Orchards says he made with the federation officials for the care of his wife while he was absent. The defense attacked the letters and Orchards story about them when it got a chance to cross-examine the witness. but Orchard held to the story he told about them. The witness denied that he had made an arrangement for the deliv- cry of the letters to Pinkerton agents; that the letters had only made their ap- pearance since he left the stand last week, or that he had invented the story because his wife had Haywoods letter in her pos a wood had agreed to write the Alaska let ter and that Pettibone and Mover knew of the arrangement.
 It was a day of correspondence and documentary evidence. Beside the four San Francisco Alaska letters the state se- cured the admission of a certified copy of an unsigned letter which Orchard got at Caldwell jail, and which Orchard swears was in the handwriting of Pettibone. The letter was as follows:
 December 30, 1905.
 .'Frend Tom--Your letter received That was sent to Jack, December 21, for you. He should send so that you ought to have it by this time. Will not write any more this time Write me as soon as you get to your new field''
 The letter was postmarked at Denver on December %, the day that Steunenberg was killed, and it is claimed by the state that Jack" mentioned was Simpkins, and the that referred to was $1O0 which Orchard swore he asked Simpkins to se- cure for him when he was leaving for Caldwell.
 The defense examined Orchard on this question, and largely devoted tseH to showing that the Western Federation of Miners always provided counsel for it's members whenever and wherever they got into trouble
 To combat the theory that Orchard nba,y in, of valuable interest in the Hercules mine the state on redirect examination obtained from Orchard a declaration that he sold his interest in the Hercules in 1S97 two years before the strike and troops came.
 Haywood Family Present.
 All the members of the Haywood family were in the seats near prisoner when the case against William D. Haywood was resumed today. During the intermisson from .he adjournment on Saturday a large number of witnesses have arrived in Boise. The court room was only about half filed however. at the time court opened.
 J. T. Nichols, who was deputy sheriff of Canyon county and in charge of the iail at Caldwell at the time of Orchard s arrest after the murder of former Cover nor Steunenberg, was the first witness. Orchard in his statement from the stand said that while In jail at Caldwell he re- ceived letter from Pettibone. The origi- nal of the letter was destroyed by Orch ard but Nichols made a copy of it be- fore giving it to Orchard
 The copy Of the letter was produced and identified by Nichols. A section or the original envelope was also produced and identified. The letter was not read. The witness said 1t was not signed
 Nichols testified that Fred Miller, law year of Spokane, had called upon Orch lrd shortly after he was placed in the CONTINUED ON PAGE al N