Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-07
FAIL TO SHAKE
ORCHARDS STORY
elf-Confessed Ass
ASSN Given Cross
Examination
STICKS 70 STATEMENTS
Haywood Laughs at Tales
Told By His Accuser and
Calls Them Lies.

Boise, Idaho, June HAIRY Or
chard took the stand again this morn
ing for his third day of examination
as the principal witness against VIII.
liam D, Haywood, charged with the
Steunenberg murder. The cross eX-
animation will take the entire day and
possibly all Of tomorrow. The wit.
ness shows no signs of fatigue and
Haywood shows little concern He
even laughs outright when asked what
he thinks of Orchards testimony. He
asserts that Orchard connects him
with crimes partly out of spite and
partly at the suggestion of detectives
and enemies of the Western Fedora
ton OF Miners.
When Orchard resumed the stand
today Attorney Richardson, chief for
the defense began at once to ply him
with a rapid fire of questions. Or
chard protested to the court, saying
that he would like an opportunity to
answer before being interrupted.
THE witness will be allowed to ans
wer all questions without interrupt
tion,' said Judge Wood sternly.
Orchard admitted that while he was
in the Idaho mining country ne be-.
came quite gambler, playing poker
most Of the time. He declared in ans.
swer to question if he was not at
Burke or Mullen playing poker when
the Wardner explosion occurred and
reiterated his direct testimony that he
lit one of the fuses that blew UP the
mill He said taht he did not know
Hay wood, Meyer or Pettibone at that
time and sias far as he knew they
were not III Wardner when the mill
was blown up. Orchard said he left
Idaho after the blowing up of this mill
to avoid arrest From 1899 to 1902
he said he worked on an average of
ten Or eleven months each year in
mines in Utah, Nevada and Arizona.
He said he gambled part of the time
and nearly always lost.
Defense Lays Stress on Gambling.
Up to the time he went to Colorado
in 1902, Orchard said that he had
never heard of Haywood, Pettibone,
Moyer, or Simpkins. There was no
trouble in Cripple Greek when he ar
rived there. He got work in the Ira
chyte mine and joined the Western
Federation of Miners local there,
headed by w. F. Davis, who had been
in charge Of the party that blew up
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mills.
Attorney Richardson asked the witness
repeatedly about his gambling, laying
much stress on this feature.
Orchard said that Billy Ackerman
helped him place the bomb in the Vim,
dicator mine Mccormick and Beck
were killed week later by this explo.
sion. Orchard said he supposed their
death was due to his bomb. Asked
why he informed the Florence and
Cripple Greek Railroad Company of
the miners plot to wreck the train he
said he supposed he was little jeal-
Gus because be had not been employed
on the job. A recess until afternoon
was taken at this point.
Orchard said he went on strike
with other union men at Cripple Greek
in August, 1903. The strike commit
tee was composed OF w. F. Davis,
Sherman Parker and a man named
kenniston. He reported to Davis of
knowing the location of a carload of
powder in the indicator mine where
he had "high graded" and Davis of
fered him 5000 to touch off this powder
There were about fifty non-union men
working in the mine and he believed
the touching off Of this carload of pow
der would have meant death to all Of
them.
Orchard said that Meyer and Hay.
wood both came to Cripple Creek dur
ing the strike and in speeches eau.
toned the strikers against violence,
drinking and gambling. Orchard said
the plan to touch off the powder in
the Vindicator mine was abandoned
because the mine was guarded and
he could not find the powder. Two
months later the matter was taken
up again at the suggestion of Davis
and Parker. Will Easterly, he said
helped him experiment. along the line
of attaching pistol to the lift bar
which the cage would lift. discharging
pistol into box of giant caps, which
in turn would fire the powder.
Attorney Richardson called Easterly
from the audience and he was identi
fled by Orchard. Easterly, Orchard
said, declined to have anything to dc
with the explosion which he caused
subsequently in the Vindicator in the
manner outlined, saying, as he was al
officer in the union he could not be
mixed up In the matter.