The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-13
Faces Colorado Official and DG- cIaf8sS He suggested Steal
 ing PauIsOns Children
REACH STEUNENBERG CASE
 IN CROSS- EXAMINATION
Defense Assails Testimony of Murder Charged to Haywood and the States Theory Rest
 ing Upon 1t.

Boise, Idaho, June 12.-The defense to- day carried the cross-eXamnation of Harry Orchard down to the actual crime charged against William D. Haywood. the murder of Frank Steunenberg, and as 1t progressed assalled the testimony and the theory of the state resting upon it. The Stcunenberg crime was reached at mld- day and counsel for the defense directed their efforts to an attempt to cloud the earlier purpose and movements of Orch ard with uncertainty and indefniteness. Then they emphasized the abandonment of all effort to kill, after Orchard first traced Steunenberg to a hotel in Boise and with a skeleton key had gained en- trance to the very room in which the governor was living.
 Then the Steunenberg crime was tenn porarily thrust into the background and the witness was carried over his long journey into North Idaho and his crimes | there, including the dark plot to kidnap and hold for ransom the Paulson chil- dren. was forcefully emphasized. Or 1 chard sWore that David Coates, former
 lieutenant governor of Colorado, and then
 a publisher in Wallace, Idaho, first sug- gested the Kidnapping to Pettibone and l himself at Denver. Paulsou, once pooB l miner, had made d fortune in the Her. | cules mine, in which Orchard held all
 interest when the property was value- less, and 1t was believed that if his chill dren were stolen he would come through
 with $5O,0O0 or $6O,oOO in ransom. Orchard 1 gufd hal tpb ha ta h
 got Jack simpkins to come in on the plot
 and together they went to Coats to re-
 new the scheme.
 Coates was in court and was asked to
 stand up for identification and facing him, Orchard said he was the man.
 Orchard was then asked If he himself
 did not propose the crime to Coates. who
 immediately rebuffed him, and If Jack 1 Simpkns had not warned Pauson the
 minute he heard of the plot. Orchard denied both suggestions and reiteratlng l his first story said that Coates had con- sented to stay in the plot and handle
 the money that they hoped to get out
 of Paulson
 Then the defense showed the witness In
 the commission of series of crime and l
 resort to d pawnshop, borrowing and theft,
 to live for a long period. First he pawned
 some jewelry and some guns. This
 brought him $25 or 80. Then with a nun
 named Cunningham, whom he said Vin- l cent St. John had recommended to him
 as safe and tried, he discussed a project
 to give Cunningham the old Peabody bomb
 which he still had in his trunk for use 1 by Cunningham on some non-union men | that were at the Tigress- Poor Man mine | He accepted the hospitality of Paul | sons home at the very time he plot, l ting to steal the Paulson children. After | that with Jack Simpkins he broke into
 the Oregon Railway and Navigatin com
 panys station. They were after trunk
 full of Iewelry samples, but instead got
 trunk full of shoe samples. Next he
 tapped cash register at Burke for so l or $40.
 l It was a long period of crime and pow 1 erty and hard luck, and summing 1t up, | the defense wanted to know why, if he | were in Idaho on mission of murder | for Haywood Mover and Pettibone, and | with unlimited credit from them. he did l not send to them for more money instead | of borrowing and stealing. Orchard | piled that he did send a letter to Mover | at Butte and got $lO0, but he did not | send for more, because he was tempor- | arily off the Steunenberg murder errand l and away from where Steunenberg lived, | and he did not want to send for moro money until he could show that he was l back to work.
 Lastly there came a showing that 1 Orchard had borrowed $500 from Paulson whose children he had gone north to 1 steal, on the strength of fraudulent | ,frar 1 to sell mining stock for Coates and that
 this was the money that actually paid 1 his expenses when he went back to cald-
 well on the final mission of murder.
 To Get Peabody.
 Attorney Richardson began at once to question Orchard today regarding his con
 ference with Charles H. Mover at the 1 latters home in Denver, about April, 1 1905. Orchard testified yesterday that
 Mover, Pettibone and Haywood told him
 at thls time to go to Canon City, to "get" l Governor Peabody. Movers home was l in the Aberdeen flats. Orchard said he went there of his own volition. He had
 not seen Mover for year or more be-
 fore this. The witness not sure | how the Peabody matter came up or l who spoke of it 6rst. Mover said he wanted to get rid of Peabody so no one 1 else would follow in his footsteps. Pea l body had gone to his office at this time.
 Orchard said he talked with Haywood l and Pettibone at the latter's store. They | gave the same reasons for wanting to | get ria of Peabody. Mover also had
 feeling of personal enmity toward Pea | body Orchard said blaming him for be- l in; the cause of his arrest.
 1 Orchard said Pettibone asked him to get | a position as life insurance solicitor be- ! fore going 10 Canon City. He got let | ters from several persons, among them | Mir Hawkins a law partner of Attorney | Richardson who has conducted the croas.