The San Francisco call., 1907-06-06

committed it for the pure love of 1T.
1t did not involve bloodshed directly, as
most of the later crimes did, but 1t was
the sure forerunner of SUCH 1t was
the blowing up of the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill at Wardner ON April 29.
1899, the crime that led to the military
campaign in the Occur d'Alenes that
summer and laid the foundation for the
murder OF Steunenberg.
Simply and directly in his quiet,
purring voice, Orchard told Of the spe-
cial meeting of his union called that
morning. of his own attendance and of
the argument between Paul Cochran,
the secretary, and Bill Devery, the
president, of the proposition to go TO
Wardner and destroy the mill "and
hang the superintendent"
81 LIT ONE FUSE.
Who lit the fuses?" asked Hawfey.
Il lit one" replied Orchard calmly.
Il don't know who lit the others"
Richardson fought vigorously to keep
out the story. He objected at every
point, protesting that there was not a
thing in all this to connect Haywood
with the murder of Steunenberg.
DEFENSE OFTEN ovERRULED
But Hawley and Borah beat him
every time. Not the murderers of
the sinner- circle" of the western fed
Grafton of miners, and not only for
the Steunenberg killing but for the ter
rible list of bloody crimes that Orchard
went on to give.
On what theory can it be shown that
Haywood was responsible for all of
tlris2" cried Richardson, when he was
not connected with the federation in an
of1cial capacity until more than year
afterward?''
The theory of the state is that out
OF this trouble grew the feeling
against Steunenberg which prevailed In
the inner circle when Haywood later
became a member of 1.-THE feeling
which directly caused that murder"
replied Borah. Haywood became a
partisan of the western federation and
had that feeling and on that we shall
show his responsibility"
MOTIVE rs SHOWN
AS a point bearing on the motive of
the Steunenberg murder. Hawley
brought out part OF Paul Cochran's ar
gument in the Burke union meeting on
the morning of the destruction OF the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill. "Coch-
ran said that there would be no trouble
with Steunenbers," said Orchard. with
the manner of one who recalls the in
cidents OF picnic last week. HE
said that the unions had always sup
ported Steunenberg and owned him.
We only had TO look out for the regu-
lars"
1t was their disappointment at the
failure of Steunenberg to live up to
this estimate of him. the state con-
tends, that led the inner circle" men
to plan his murder.
From the account OF that day and his
fight from Burke, Orchard went
through his wanderings in various
mining districts in Utah, California,
Nevada and elsewhere for three years
or more, until at length, in July, 1902,
he reached the Cripple Creek district
and went to work in the Trachile mine
running a drill There he put in his
union card with Free Coinage union No.
10, and met again in w. F. Davis, its
president an old comrade of the Coeur
dAlenes
ADMITS HIS TREACHERY
There began the real story of blood.
shed and murder. They traded in
human blood" declared Hawley in his
opening yesterday. Orchard gave de-
tail after horrible detail of that awful
trading" 1t was q story of brutality
beyond the power of Imagination to
conceive. interrupted once by cool ad-
mission of treachery to his fellows
that gave q glimpse of the utterly
despicable character of the man who
told it.
Orchard had not even the honor of
the thief and told on his comrades be-
cause they delayed in producing the
blood money he claimed to have earned.
Not once did he say that the men for
whom he undertook his despicable
crimes had forced him into the work.
1t was plain case of buy and sell with
him.
The employers set his tasks and Or
chard executed them, and there was
never a question because high or low,
great or small, was marked for death.
He took the COMMUNICATION of his en-
ployers as it came all in the days
work and neither strove to merit IT
nor to avoid their condemnation. 1t
was the money that ne worked for and
very little of that.
INDIFFERENT AS TO FATE
Orchard has got beyond caring what
comes to himself as the result. He
does not even attempt to shield him
self in any of the details. He simply
narrates an incredible string of events,
telling what that man did and said,
what he did and said, In just the same
monotony OF narration as IL he were
recounting the uninteresting incidents
of his life as cheesemaker in Cam
ade-ten or a dozen years ago.
So it was when he told OF the blow
ing up of the vindicator shaft at Grip
pie Greek and the Killing of McCor-
mick and Beck. superintendent and
shift boss of the mine. SO it was when
he narrated the attempt that he made
to blow up Bradley in San Francisco
on the old grudge held against him
ever since 1893 when he was the man.
ager of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mines. So, too, it was when he de-
scribed the CHASTITY massacre of nom
union men at Independence depot be-
cause Haywood thought IT necessary
to get up some excitement to prevent
a split in the federation.
He told of putting strychnine in the
milk left on Bradley's door step as il
he had described changing the bottles
for four pals OF ice cream. He told
of pulling the wire that exploded the
bomb at Independence as he might
have told of pulling a fish out of the
water.
HAYWOOD THE CHIEFTAIN
There was never a change of color
in his ruddy face as these stories Of
murder fell from his lips. Not even
the tale of the killing of Lyte Gregory,
the drunken deputy sheriff whom he
followed about the streets of Denver
n.