Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-06-21
co RROB0RATI0N
STATES CHAIN OF EVIDENCE IN
ORCHARDS TESTIMONY
STEVE ADAMS APPEARANCE
Pinkerton Detectives Play important
Part In Welding the Links That
May Hang Haywood.

Boise, Idaho.-The prosecution in
the Steunenberg murder trial. enter
Ing In earnest upon the substantiation
and confederation Of Harry Orchards
testimony, showed continuous thread
OF evidence connecting George Petit
bones store In Denver with Orchard
nj San Francisco engaged on the Brad
ley murder plot. partly developed an
other direct line by which II is hoped
to show that haywood engaged and
paid Steve Adams for the same deB-
perate work. and added several
touches OF confirmation to Orchards
general story.
Ofiiciais of the postofices at San
Francisco and Denver produced orig
inal records shown. that In August
1904, "a registered letter was sent un-
der the name Of -. Wolf" from tho
address OF PcttibOne's store In Den
yer to -. Dempsey" mt the Golden
West hotel In San Francisco. Orchard
swore that he stayed at the Golden
West under nm alias that was either
Dempsey or Hogan" that Pettibonc
used the aliases OF "woln'' and Pat
Bone" and that under the name OF
"woln'' Pettibonc. In the month men
toned. sent him registered letter
containing 500 to pay his expenses
while engaged ON the Bradley mur-
der.
Police ofiiciais Of Ogden established
the arrest there. In June. 1908. of Steve
Adams and A. 7. Williams. They wer.
sealed up In nm castbound car loaded
with fruit. and when arrested for tres
pass each had u brace Of rcvoiScrs-
When released. through tho influence
OF n detective who was u Brother As-
son OF Adams. they went straight 'o
tho once Of the Western Union and
sent n telegram To Haywood at D-n-
yer.
The defense headed on an attempt
tn get the contents of tho telegram be-
fore the jury. but the stat. Indicated
that II would return tn the charge later
and further develop the Incident when
IL has broadencd Its foundation. The
state. through an oiiicial Of the West.
.rn Union. produced tn. original at u
telegram supposed to hare been sent
by Attorney Fred Miller of Spokane
aud nov recorded m one of Hay.
woods counsel. to Harry Orchard. be-
fore the latter was arrested at Cald.
well for the St-unrnbcrs murder. but
did not introduce Il because Its identi.
ncaiion IL still insufficient. The state
also rot an order directing the West
crn Union to produce Its records show
inH tia, Haywood scn, money tn Ad'
ANS NJ Ogden.
When the Ogden Testimony vas ir-
iroduccsi. Steve Adams was brought
into court under guard To bc idcnti.
ned. Adams name has run all through
the trial hut this wss HIS firat appear
ancr In person. Adams seemed In -
defiant humor and waiLcd-'o a point
directly In front 81 the jury and rascd
steadily nj the witness confronting
him.
besides its work ON the r~'iih"n-.
Orchard and Haywood. Adams lines.
the state produced several Witnesses
who confirmed features Of Orchards
story ss ,o the bradley affair. the BrI;
dcnrcht into the Siniiraior mine. with
the object Of doing violence. the finai
success of the viniica'or plot. and the
circumstances under which Detective
t.yt~ Gregory was killed.
Aside from i's Iishi against the at'
mission of all tho rsidcnc, offered by
the state ON the general ground that
I, was In mo- way connected with the
accused. the defense conicnird itself
with showing tina, all NJ tho Witnesses
had been located and interviewed by
Pinkcrton detectives and that they
had been given advances Of -xprnH.
money through Pinkcrton agencies.