The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-06-22
PLOTTED TO K|DNAP THE
CHILD OF FORMER PARTNER
Orchard Planned to Add KIDNAPPING
to His Many Crimes, and At
tempts to Involve Prominent
Colorado Man.

Boise, Ida.-The defense on Wed.
nesday carried the cross examination
of Harry Orchard down to the actual
crime charged against William ID.
Haywood-the murder of Frank
Steunenberg-and as 1t progressed
assailed the testimony and the theory
of the state resting upon IL
and various points. The Steunenberg
crime was reached at midday and
counsel for the defense directed their
efforts to an attempt to cloud the
earlier purposes and movements of
Orchard with uncertainty and in
definiteness. Then they emphasized
the abandonment of all effort to kill
after Orchard had first tracked Steun.
enberg to hotel in Boise and with
skeleton key had gained entrance to
the very room in which the governor
was living. Here they delayed for
moment to prove that Orchard twice
wrote and once telephoned to Bill
Easterly at Silver City to urge him
to come and join in the crime and
the direct complication was that Or
chard was endeavoring to inveigle
another federation man into the
crime, which would bring discredit
and dishonor to the organization.
| Then the Steunenberg crime was
temporarily thrust into the back
ground and the witness was carried
over his long, diverting journey into
north Idaho and his crimes there, in
Guiding the dark plot to kidnap and
hold for ransom the Paulson children
were forcefully emphasized Orchard
swore that Dave Coates, former lieu
tenant governor of Colorado. and then
publisher in Wallace, Idaho, first
suggested the kidnapping to Pettibone
and himself at Denver.
Paulson, once poor miner had
made fortune in the Hercules mine,
in which Orchard held an interest
when the property was valueless, and
it was believed that II his children
were stolen he would come through
with $50 900 or 100000 in ransom. Or
chard said that when he went to
north Idaho he got Jack Simpkins to
come in on the plot and together they
went to Coates to renew the scheme.
Coates, who was in court. was
asked to stand up for identification
and, facing him, Orchard said he was
the man.
Then the defense showed the wit
ness in the commission of a series of
mean crimes, and reduced to poverty
in which he had to resort to n pawn
shop, borrowing and theft to live for
long period. First he pawned some
iewelry and guns. This brought $25
or $50. Then with man named Gun.
bingham whom he said Vincent st.
John had recommended to him as
safe and tried, he discussed project
to give Cunningham the old Peabody
bomb which he still had in his trunk
! for use by Cunningham on some non-
union men at the Tiger and Poorman
mine.
Then he accepted the hospitality of
Paulson's home at the very time he
was plotting to steal the Paulson chill.
dren. After that. with Jack Smpkins.
he broke into the Oregon Railway &
Navigation company's depot. They
were after trunk full of jewelry
samples, but instead got a trunk full
of shoe samples. Next he tapped
cash register at Burke for $50 or $40.
| II was a long era of crime and pow
erty and hard luck and, summing 1t
up, the defense wanted to know why,
III he was in Idaho on mission of
murder for Haywood, Meyer and Pet.
timone and with unlimited credit
| from them he did not send to them
for money instead of borrowing and
stealing. Orchard replied that he
did send letter to Meyer at Butte
and got 500, but he did not send for
more because he was temporarily Off
the Steunenberg murder and away
from where Steunenberg lived and he
did not want to send for more money
until he could show that he was back
at work.