Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-28
QUESTION OF
vERAC|1Y At BOISE
Defense's Witnesses
Contradict Or
chard's Story
CRIPPLE CREEK RIOTS
Described in Detail By Miner
Who Was There State
Scores Easterly.

Boise, June 2S--Immediately after
court convened in the Haywood case
this morning the prosecution recalled
DR.. |. l.. McGee, OF Wallace, Idaho
witness for the defense whose cross
examination had been deferred. Nc
Gee had testified that ne saw Orchard
in the Occur d'Alene in 1904. On
one occasion he observed Orchard in
company with a man named Cunning
ham. Orchard claims to have given
the Peabody bomb to man Of this
name. The prosecution today want
ed McGee to describe Cunningham
The witness said he had seen the
man but twice and then they almost
came to blows over a political dis
cussion McGee could not describe
him and when asked if he had a nous
tache replied Il don't know but he
had gun"
Following McGee, w. B. Easterly
was called to continue his testimony
which was begun yesterday. He posi-
lively denied that he ever talked with
Orchard as to the independence de-
pot explosion He said Orchard was
at Cripple Creek the latter part of
1903 and the first part of 1904. He
said Orchard mined a little but was
fiend at cards.
Counselled Against Violence.
Easterly asserted that during the
Cripple Creek strike days there was
never any talk of violence at the
meetings Of his union except by WIS.,
iting members. One visitor proved
afterward to be secret service man
employed by the mine owners. He
said the labor leaders always coun-
selled peace, saying that any dlsor.
ders which might occur would be at
tribu5ed to the union. EasterIy went
over much of the ground covered yes
terday in the testimony of W. F. De-
Wis. He told of d meeting addressed
by Meyer ahd Haywood at which the
two accused men urged the miners
to maintain peace and order
Did you ever hear Meyer and Hay
wood tell Orchard in Denver in your
presence that he could not go too
fierce at Cripple Creek to suit him.
asked Darrow.
Il did not" replied the witness.
Easterly said he was arrested at
Cripple Creek, "as a matter of mill
tary necessity" and thrown into the
bull pen for several days. He said
, he was home in bed when the indie.
pendence depot was destroyed. He
did not know it had happened until
the next day. He then went to Vic
tor to the union hall where several
hundred members of the Western
Federation had gathered.
In the afternoon of the same day,
i he said c. C. Hamlin, secretary of the
Mine Owners Association, made a
speech in the streets in which he re-
. ferred to the Independence depot ex.
plosion and said that fifty or more of
the union leaders ought to be hanged
and the rest driven from the district.
! Then a shot was fired and as Easter
ly put it "the fireworks began"
Attacked BY Soldiers.
He said when the firing began he
went home. On the way he stopped
at Steve Adams house and told him
Of the threats he had heard against
him and others and that he had bet.
ter protect imself. When he got home
he armed himself with repeating
shotgun and went to Goldfield, Colo.
rado, where there was to be a meet.
, ing OF the union men. Not more
than twenty-five union men were in
the hall at Goldfield when the militia
arrived and the miners started for
the hills. AS they went shots were
fired at them The miners took ref
uge in prospect holes but were driven
, out and over the hills. He said one
bullet struck within foot of hin
: and a splinter of rock struck hin
over the eye. He said he did not fire
at the soldiers as he had only {
shot gun and it would not reach them
State Scores Witness EasterIy.
I On cross examination the state
! strongly attacked Easterly for re
naming silent after he knew Orchard
had killed Steunenberg and not speak
ing until Orchard made his confes
sion duplicating the Western Fedora
tion Of Miners. To number OF ques
tions Easterly merely repeated hi
had no occasion to tell anybody" HI
said 1t was none OF his business ant
he was not an informer. On re-direc
examination Easterly said that whel
Orchard was arrested for killing
Steunenberg he remembered hi
threats and he at once reported t,
the attorney Of the Western Fedora
fiOu Orchard'c threats