The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-12
I. 4.
He STOLE SHEEP.
Harry Orchard on Cross Ex-
animation in Haywood Trial
Adds One More to His Already
Long List of Crimes.
THE WONDER OF ALL.
He Is Regarded as a Most Re-
markable Witness.
Every Effort to, Puncture His
Evidence Has Failed.
THE WONDER OF ALL.

Boise, Idaho, June 12-Harry Orchard,
calm and self-possessed, begins this
| morning the seventh day of his exami-
nation on the chapters of his later life,
which beginning with petty social Of
lenses, led on through a maze of fear
full crime to the penitentiary and shad-
ow of the gallows. For six days, judge.
jury, lawyers, newspaper men and spec
tators have listened to this auto
recital that. runs the gamut of evil
commonplace and wholesale assassina-
ton barely enough to cause sensa ton
in the crowded court room.
So far no subtle trap laid by counsel
accustomed to lure d witness to con-
tradiction, has caught Orchard in ma
terial contradiction of his original mar
ration. 80
He is willing to tell everything he
has done: to give the closest detail
detail so minute that some difference
seems inevitable when it Is retold, but
not once has this difference been suf-
f1cient to give his cross-examiner hope
that he can impeach the witness by
showing contradiction. Counsel for de-
Tense themselves say that their associ-
ate who has taken upon himself the
task of cross-examination is baffied at
times by the GirectnesS and absolute
cohesion of Orchards replies. They are
not glow to pronounce Orchard the most
remarkable witress they have ever
seen and even say that he is possibly
ever offered for the dissection of
cross-exaniner.
Suggestion of Coaching.
The suggestion has been made that
the man is coached for the ordeal.
Warden Whitney of the penitentiary,
laughs al the idea. He too, after watch
ing Orchard for over II months pro-
nounces him as far beyond his ken, not
withstanding his intimate knowledge of
the character of criminals. Orchard, he
says, has not talked for Is minutes
about his examination with any one
since he first went on the stand. He
spends his time alone when not asleep
or eating, thinking or reading.
Orchard is brought in from the pen1-
Tertiary every morning and is taken to
the office of j. w. Hawley, leading
counsel for the state. Detectives and
trusted deputies guard every entrance.
A remarkable, feature of the cross
examination has been the freedom al
lowed by tie prosecution to counsel for
made Mr.. Richardson's questions are
frequently misleading, sbpt this brings
no protest. Mr.. HaNleyss objections
are more frequently oveIruled than sus-
tanned Judge fWoodS hes evidently de-
examination of Orchard and to allow
every detail of the story to go before
the jury.
has been carried in such extraordinary
detail and so much time has been con-
sumed by threshing- the same straw
over and over again that there is rea-
son to believe Richardson hopes to
wear the witness down.
When court adjourned yesterday Or
chard was starting for Canon CITY,
Col, for the purpose of assassinatfng
former Governor Peabody.
Afternoon Session.
= liof "a H.
son took new tack and asked Or
chard long series of questions as to
where and how much Billy Alderman
paid to have his teeth fixed. The wit
ness declared he did not know whether
Alderman had his teeth fixed at a
dental college or not. He said he knew
Alderman got money to have his teeth
attended to and spent most of it. 1t
was presumed to be Richardson's pur-
pose to show that Orchard. Adams and
Alderman had little money the winter
of 1904-05.
After exhausting the subject of
Ackerman's teeth, Attorney Richard
son returned to the Peabody affair. He
carefully carried the witness over the
planting of the first bomb in the snow
at the corner of Thirteenth street and
Grant avenue. This was about jan
uary 1, 1905.
Orchard denied that he was in a
plot to trap Max Mehalich into COM
hitting the murder. Orchard also
denied that ne was OHered $1OO to
murder a business rival of Mehalich.
The first bomb was placed at about
s o'clock in the morning by Steve
Adams and Orchard They drove up
in a livery rig to the corner and Or
chard planted the bomb. There were
25 or 80 pounds of powder in the
bomb. They did not plant it at night,
Orchard said, because they were afraid
of it's freezing: Richardson carried the
witness into an expert disquisition on
the art of making bombs.
First Try at Peabody.
Orchard and Adams were to pull the
wire as Governor Peabody passed the
place where the Internal machine was
buried. This wire was strung to a |
point about a block away and had to |
pass in front of an alley. Orchard and |
stood where they could see
Governor Peabody as he came out. |
This was the instance when just as
the governor passed the bomb two |
coal wagons came out of the alley and |
drove over the wire. The two assas- |
sins saw it would be useless to pull |