Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-19
LETTERS FROM
NOME DECEIVE
ORCHARD WIFE
Prosecution Plays
Strong Card
Miners Officials Declared to Have
Been in Communication with MUIR
derer of steunenbers at
Time of Crime
Rv Associated Press.


the Steunenberg murder trial onereo
one Of it's most important pieces OF EVIL
dence against William D. Haywood to-
day when recalling Harry orchard for
redirect examination it introduced ana
secured the admission of four letters
tending to show that Haywood, during
the fall of 1905, when Orchard swears
he was engaged in various crimes for
federation leaders, had participated In
plan to deceive Mrs. Orchard the sec
ond of Cripple Creek as to the Where-
abouts of her husband.
Over variety of protests from the
defense Orchard was allowed to testi-
fy that early in the summer OF lsoo
Haywood told him that Mrs. Orcnaro
was writing him for Information as 70
Orchards whereabouts. Orchard sWore
that he proposed that he should write
his wife a series of letters that were to
be falsely dated and delivered to MIS-
| Orchard by agents of the federation.
He said that he first wrote two let
| ters, which he dated at San Francisco,
| and had them delivered through PADDY
Mulliney, who represented the federa-
| ton at Cripple Creek. Orchard ioent!-
| fled the TWO lGCI6TS etllu, OFOiA oAAANo e~A~
objections, Judge Wood admitted them.
Letters Sent from Nome
| Next Orchard swore that he wrote a
letter purporting to come from Nome
Alaska, and under the general arrange
ment that he had made with the reder-
alton officials, Marion Moore carried
the letter to Nome, where ne went as
organizer of the federation, and posted
II This letter, bearing date of Nome,
August 5, 1906 was produced, 1dentlned
and admitted in evidence.
| Orchard then identified letter when
| HAYWOOD wrote to Mrs. Orchard, ana
that. too, was admitted in evidence ana
handed to the jury. 1t was as foliows'
Denver, Nov. 1S, 1905.
"Mrs. H. orchard.
i "Dear Madam and Sister; have not
i heard a word since saw YOU. The
last information got was from Alaska.
think Fairfield was the name OF the
place. I see that awful conditions pre-
vail among the law and order element.
| Yours very truly,
'WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD"
| The three letters written by Orchard
were commonplace and contained prac-
| tically nothing bearing on the case or
Orchards testimony except references
| To the ARRANGEMENT which orchard says
he made with the federation officials for
| the care of his wife while he was alb
sent.
The defense attacked the letters and
| Orchards story about them when 1T got
4 a chance to cross-examine the witness.
but Orchard held to the story he told
about them. The witness successively
denied that he had made an arrange
ment for the delivery OF the ietter TO
Pinkerton agents; that the letters had
only made their appearance since he
left the stand last week. or that he had
| invented the story because his wife had
Haywood's S letter in her possession. He
swore positively that Haywood had
agreed to write the Alaska letter and
| that Pettibone and Meyer knew of the
arrangement.
Day of Correspondence
IT was a day of correspondence and
| documentary evidence. Besides tne
four San Francisco-Alaska letters the
| state secured the admission or a GER
titled copy of the unsigned letter which
Orchard got at the Caldwell jail and
which Orchard swears was in the hand
writing of Pettibone.
The letter was as follows:
| December 30.
"Friend Tom: Your letter received.
That was sent to Jack December 21 for
YOU He should sent 1t so that you
ought to have it by this time. VIII not
write any more this time. Write me as
soon as you get to your new field"
The letter was postmarlked Denver on
December 30 the day that Steunenberg
was killed, and it is claimed by the
state that "Jack'' mentioned was Simp-
kins. and that the ord that" referred
to sion which Orchard asked Simpkins
to secure for him when he was leaving
| 20 In ue1J
AIeee Conspiracy
THE state developed it's contention
that as tending to show a conspiracy
and knowledge of the Steunenberg
| crime Orchard was, without any re-
quest from him, furnished with counsel
within a few days after his arrest. 1t
first showed that Orchard after his ar
rest sent no communication from the
| Caldwell Jail, and then produced and
secured the admission OF the original OF
the following telegram:
| "Receivers, Number; Phone time,
| filed 7:3O D. m. Paid. Charge Robert
son, Miller & Rosenfeldt.
"SPOKANE, WASH, Jan. 8, 1906.
'oTo L. Hogan, care Sheriff, Caldwell,
Idaho.
"Attorney Fred Miller will start for
Caldwell in the morning. NJ, SO Hyde
! street."
| Th6 deI6nS6 cAdIHlllCQ OAShc1l0 Oh
| this subject and largely devoted itself
to showing that the Western Fedora
| ton of Miners always provided coun-
sci for its members wherever and
whenever they got into trouble.
| At the opening of the morning ses-
sion the defense asked Orchard series
of impeachment questions. They all
dealt with conversations in which it
was alleged Orchard recited his private
| IL or1INa an1<
vowed he would kill him If he hanged
for it. Orchard denied every query,
both specifically and generally.
Ed Boyce, once president of the West
ern Federation Of Miners, and now one
| of the owners of the rich Hercules
mine came after Orchard and was still
on the stand when the court arose for
the day. He was called to identify the
Miners Magazine as the official organ
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