Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-25
ORCHARD HELD UP
AS ARCH TRAITOR
Three-Hour Arrangement by At
torney Clarence barrow.
PLANS OF THE DEFENSE
Many Noted Witnesses to Be Called
in Rebuttal.
BULKLEY WELLS WILL APPEAR
Claim Is Made That Gov. Steunenberg
Was Murdered for Personal
Revenge.
BULKLEY WELLS WILL APPEAR

With the address for the defense
by Attorney Clarence barrow at
the Haywood trial in Boise, Idaho,
the plans of the counsel for the
miners are disclosed. They are
willing to admit that Harry Or
chard, the premier murderer of the
century, was all that he claims to
be, and they are willing to add that
he IS more. They say they will
prove that he was constantly in the
employ of the mine owners, and
that many of the strikes and conse-
quent violence in Colorado and the
Occur d'Alene were fomented by
the mine owners to give the West
ern Federation a bad name, and, if
possible, to kill it. Darrow claims
that Orchard is not only the fore
most murderer of the times, but
the arch traitor as well.
BOISE, Idaho, June 25-Oounsel for
William D. Haywood devoted the early mart
Of this mornings session of court to the
completion of the basis for Harry Or
chards Impeachment, and then, calling the
hrst witness, entered upon a showing of
relationship at Cripple Creek prior to the
independence station explosion between
orchard and Is. c. Sterling then chief de-
tective for the Mine Owners Association.
The Impeachment of Orchard relates al
most entirely to the proposition that he
repeatedly professed that he had been
WrOOyed nv
when he talked of his wrongs he invariably
threatened to kill Steunenberg
BOISE, Idaho June 25.-When the Hay
wood trial was resumed this morning there
was surprise in store for the spectators
The defense, In opening it's case asked per-
mission to recall Harry Orchard, in order
to put few additional impeaching ques-
lions to the states most important witness
Orchard had been brought in from the
penitentiary, and was put On the stand i'm
mediately after court opened. Attorney
Richardson questioned him. He wanted to
know if Orchard had not told Max Malich,
Ia Turkish bath establishment in Den
yer. that Gov Steunenberg was responsible
for his being poor man, and that he in
tended to xii him. Orchard said he had
been to the baths with Malich, but denied
that there had been any such conversa-
ton.
Orchard next was asked if he knew John
d. Elliott.
Il do not" replied the witness
Elliott was in court and was requested to
stand up. Orchard looked at him, shook his
head and said he did not know the man.
He denied having conversation with the
man, in which he is alleged to have told
Elliott he was in the employ of the Nine
owners Association.
Richardson asked Orchard if he had not
told Elliott that capital had determined to
get rid of union labor. and would begin
with the Western Federation of Miners;
that something was going TO happen soon in
Idaho and would startie the world.
Il had no such conversation with any
person at any time or place" declared
Orchard.
Orchard also denied talking with Elliott
about Gov. Steunenberg.
DO you know D. C. Coply?' asked Rich
did you, in his room. at San Francisco,
discuss the blowing up OF Fred Bradley,
and say that Bradley got what he de-
served
Il may have said it: don't know"
Didn't you say to Copy that there was
another man who had a hand in the Occur
dAlenc troubles, Gov. Steunenberg and
this man had driven you out of the coun-
try. and you intended to kill him?''
No, sir: | didn't say just that neither
in substance nor effect There was a CONVEX
sation In which Gov. Steunenberg's name
was mentioned"
Orchard next was confronted by Charles
a Sullivan, a miner from Cripple Creek.
He said ne knew Sullivan, but denied hav-
ing conversation with him.
Trend of the Case
Beginning with the appearance of
the first witness for the defense on
the stand today the story of Harry
Orchards life will be traced by a
succession of witnesses called, not to sus-
tain. but to contradict all the material
facts testified to by the chief witness
against VIM. Haywood. Orchard will be in
court again today. and counsel for the de-
Tense will lay the foundation for his i'm
parchment.
The presentation by Clarence barrow, the
attorney who is conducting the defense
has cleared the stage for the new inter-
probation Of motive on the part of the chief
actor, or, as the defense claims, the pup
pet who played the principal part in the
many tragedies and stirring events between
the year 1899, when the troubles in the
Occur q Alenes reached their height and
the close Of 1895, when forruer Gov Steun-
enberg was assassinated, and followed the
arrest and confession of Orchard and the
arrest Of Haywood Meyer and Pettibone
in 1905 Darrow's development of the mo-
tive the defense attributes to orchard and
his explanation OF the circumstances on
which the state OF Idaho basis its claim
that he is guilty, in common with Petit
bone and Meyer. of a conspiracy to muir
der the leaders in the fight against the
methods Of the Western Federation, opens
a field for conjecture.
Orchards Career
The defense claims it will. through its
witnesses, be able to completely convince
the jury and public mat for years a con-
spiracy existed among the mine owners
and employers of labor in the states of
Idaho and Colorado to wipe union labor
from the mining field. After Orchard is
examined today the evidence for the de-