New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-12
ORCHARD STOLE SHEEP.
AMONG MINOR CRIMES.
Als0 Tells in Trial at Boise of Plot
to KU $50.

10 h2J IOU.
Boise. Idaho June 1.-THE attack Of the Hay
wood defence on the testimony Of Harry Or
chard goes on unremittngly. and the witness
will probably continue on the stand two full
days Orchard withstands the strain with
remarkable forttude. and at the end Of six
days shows no Indication Of mental or physi-
cal strain.
The dynamiting Of Fred Bradley IN San Fran
cisco began the day to-day. The defence made
a long and determined effort to expose several
features of It TO doubt and improbabty. and 10
vitiate 1t all by revealing the hand Of the Pin
kertons
Then the play went back to Denver for the
winter OF 1904-'O5 and the spring that followed,
and there was an extended effort to show that
Orchard had practically no communication with
the leaders Of the fcderaron that he received
no pay for the Bradley crime or anything else.
and that with stove" Adams in period Of
extreme poverty extending over several years.
he reduced TO the necessity Of stealing a
sheep from the GIobevie stockyards that he
might have food.
Orchard, TO a laughing courtroom. confessed
that he stole the sheep. hut stoutly denied that
It was because OF want. He insisted that all
through that supposedly hard winter and spring
he continued TO draw money from Pettibone
through Adams and explained that II he did not
see the federation leaders often II was because
he was lying low to avoid capture"
This GIobeville inquiry developed another
crime. At this Denver suburb there was plot
Orchard swore it was inspired by Max Malich;
the defence claimed that Orchard was its author
to dynamite a boarding house where one hum
dred and fifty non-union men lived, and IN prep
aration for the murder Orchard. Adams and
man named Joe" ManaIch broke into two
magazines and stole six hundred pounds Of dyna-
mite which they lugged home at night and
buried I'm their cellars. The crime was aban-
doned Orchard said. because Haywood inter-
vened and forbade him To have anything TO do
with II.
Carrying out the lines Of testimony tending 70
show that Orchard. regardless of the great hold
which il is presumed he had the federation
leaders was frequently without funds. the de-
fence showed that from late 1903 until the mid
,IIo Of 1904 orchard continually drew strike re-
lief sunpIies at Cripple Creek and then dralnatl-
,o1l,, invited Orchard to explain the inconsls-
.a,,,, to the Jury Orchard replied that Hay
wood Mover. Parker and Davis all advised MN
~ draw the supplies because II he dlsplayeu
money ne would excite suspicion.
,rr,o examination next reviewed the earlier at
.,r+ an Governor Peabody and the making OF
the bombs to Kill him, and the plots against
Iudres Cabbert and Goddard, with an eIlo'l
to tighten anu cast u''"~ "iD-- 49,
.oe.in,oDv orchard told dramatic story OF TIE
oret attempt TO nssassinate Peabody-an cary
morning drive through the snow to place TN
ho,,,h and a wait for the victim, who was spared
h tho unexpectcd appearance Of two coal
wagons. which. coming from an alley We're
driven across the trigger string at the moment
mat Peabody was crossing the mine
orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adams into the
,,o,, to-day. He said that. while no and Adams
were watching Judge Goddard's house. MIS-
Adams went with them a couple of times as
blind to divert suspicion from them Mrs
Adams. who had seat among the Witnesses
laughed when Orchard told the incident.
orchard who confessed that he hesitated at
no crime and took hundred desperate chances
in those he committed. made an interesting COLI
tributIon to the psychological study of his per
sonalitv when he called himself a coward. he
said he was too cowardly TO openly kill Judge
Gabbert; that nc regarded all his acts as COW
ardy
In five minutes to-day Orchard showed more
emotion than at any time since he began MS les
timony 1t was when the defence in a roughshod
digression asked hun if he had not deserted MS
Cripple Creek wife and left her in poverty that
conneIIed the sane of her washtub 20 buy bread.
orchards lips quivered and with tears near
he falterlngly denied that he had done so. and
said that the federation leaders had promised
to care for her in his absence.
There is much speculation as 10 what Steve
Adams will say when placed on the stand as a
witness for the state. Orchard has said that
Adams was his partner in many OF his most
desperate undertakings. such as the blowing
nm Of tho Independence station. 1t is known
that his repudlated confession is in the hands
If the prosecution, but it is doubtful If this
confession can be brought within the cognizance
of tho Jury unless Adams himself consents. Mrs.
Annie Adams who has been IN BOISE since the
trial began. and who is in daily attendance at
the courtroom saw her husband at the county
an last nirht Mrs Adams is credited with
much influence over her husband. 1t was at
her solicitation, it is said. that he repudated
tbe confession he made last year. He went so
far after making the confession. as to travel TO
Colorado with General Bulkeley Wells and re-
,,or+ has 1t that under the direction of Adams
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