Connecticut western news., 1907-06-20
HELPED DECEIVE WIFE
Haywood Letter to Mrs. Orchard Used as Proof of His Guilt.
PETTIB0NE WROTE INFORMER

Arch Criminal Describes How Steve Adams, His Alleged Partner In Guilt, Had Told Him He Intended to Make a Confession.
 Boise, Ida, June 19.-The prosecu- ton in the Steunenberg murder trial offered one of its most important pieces of evidence against William D. Hay wood when, recalling Harry Orchard for redirect examination, it introduced four letters tending to show that Hay wood during the fall of 1905, when Or chard swears he was engaged on vari- ous crimes for the federation leaders, had participated in plan to deceive Mrs. Orchard of Cripple Creek as to the whereabouts of her husband.
 Over variety of protests from the defense Orchard was allowed to tes- tify that early in the summer of 1905 Haywood told him that Mrs. Orchard was writing for information as to Or chard's whereabouts. Orchard swore that he wrote Mrs. Orchard a series of letters that were falsely dated and de- livered to Mrs. Orchard by agents of the Western Federation of Miners. Or chard said that he first wrote two let ters, dated San Francisco, and had them delivered through Paddy Mulli- ney, who represented the federation at Cripple Creek. Orchard identified the two letters and, overruling all objec- tions of the defense, Judge Wood ad- mitted them.
 Haywood Wrote to Mrs. Orchard. Next Orchard swore that he wrote a third letter purporting to come from Nome, Alaska, and that, under the gen eral arrangement he had made with the federation officers, Marian Moore carried the letter to Nome, where he went as organizer of the federation, and posted it. This letter, bearing the date of Nome, Aug. 5, 1905, was pro- duced, identified and admitted as evil dence. Orcherd then identified a letter which Haywood himself wrote to Mrs. Orchard, and that was admitted in evi- dence and handed to the jury as show ing that the prisoner had knowledge of the Alaskan story
 Orchard also testified that the replies of Mrs. Orchard were sent to him through Haywood.
 Besides the four San Francisco and Alaska letters the state procured the admission of d certified copy of an un- < signed letter which Orchard got at Caldwell jail and which the informer swears was in the handwriting of Pet tibOne. The letter follows:
 Letter From Pettibone.
 Dec. 30. Friend Tom-Your letter received That was sent to Jack Dec 21 for you. He should send 1t so that you ought to have it by this time. Will not write any more this time. Write as soon as you get to your new field.
 The letter was postmarked at Denver on Dec. 30, 1905, the day that Steunen- berg was killed, and it is said by the state that the "Jack' mentioned was Simpkins and that the that referred to was $1OO which Orchard swore he asked Simpkins to get for him when Simpkins left Caldwell.
 The state developed its contention that, as tending to show conspiracy and knowledge of the Steunenberg crime, Orchard was without any re- quest from him furnished with counsel within few days after his arrest The prosecution first showed that Or chard after his arrest sent no commu- nication from Caldwell jail and then produced the original of the following telegram:
 Spokane, Wash, Jan. 3, 1906. To T. Hogan, Care Sheriff Caldwell Ida {: Attorney Fred Miller will start for Cald- well in morning. M.
 59 Hyde Block. The dispatch was charged to the ac- count of Robertson, Miller & Rosen- feldt, counsel for the miners
 What Adams Said.
 Orchard was asked if he had ever received instructions from Haywood, Mover or Pettibone as to what he should do if he got into trouble.
 'Yes, had,'' replied Orchard. ''They told me any time I got into trouble not to write or wirS them; that they would send some one to look after me-"
 The question of the right of the state to go into any statement made by Steve Adams to Orchard was argued by both sides, and an objection by the defense was overruled. Continuing, Orchard said, Adams saw an attorney in the jail some days before he saw Mcfarland, and after he saw Mozart land he talked to me about making a confession.
 Adams told me- said Orchard, "that I could not be alone in making a confession, but that he thought he would make a confession himself"
 Discussed Confession.
 ''After this conversation did you and Adams continue to occupy the same cell and did he occupy it with you after the conversation with Mcfarland? P asked MT. Hawley.
 ''Yes, sir; he did"
 'Did you and Adams have a conver- sation with Senator Borah and myself in the penitentiary shortly after your talk with Adams?'
 ''Yes, sir"
 "Was this matter of the Adams con- fession gone into between the four of usY' continued MT. Hawley.