The Red Cloud chief., 1907-06-14
ORCHARD ON STAND
DEFENSE CONTINUES ATTACK ON
HIS TESTIMONY.

ANIMATION succeed IN ShoWin9
AvoWed Murderer as Judas--Make
Strong Assault on indicator Story.
Boise, Ida, June S.-Counsel for
William ID. Haywood continued their
attack on the testimony Of Harry Or
thard at both sessions of the trial and
centered their strongest assault on
the events beginning with the eXplo-
sion in the Vindicator mine and end
ing with the earlier meetings between
The witness and the leaders of the
Western Federation of Miners in Den
yer. To the extent that traffic with
'the other side" in the war of labor
and capital in Colorado was discred-
liable, they succeeded in discrediting
the witness.
Taking up the admission that Or
chard made in direct examination that
he had been treacherous to his COM
rades in Cripple Creek by tipping off
a train wrecking plot, they developed
the fact that Orchard entered the EN-.
ploy of -. c. Scott, who had charge
of the railway detectives. Orchard
said that with Scott he had met X.
&. Sterling. detective in the employ
of the Mine Owners ASSOCIATE Il, and
that Scott had paid his expenses and
accompanied him to Denver on the
trip when first he had met Meyer and
Haywood. He said that he had agreed
to report to Scott, but that he was
lying to him, never intending to make
reports to him and never did make
reports. The defense also tried to
show that because he stood in with
the other side Orchard was never mo-
Tested by the militia in Cripple Creek
during the strike. Orchard admitted
that Scott had tod him that f the
militia interfered with him he was to
send for him, and that the militia
never did interfere with him or search
his house.
Orchard said that he went to Scott
first because he had not been paid for
his work at the Vindicator mine and
he was jealous because he was given
hard work like the Vindicator job,
while other men got the simple task
of train wrecking by displacing a
rail. More crimes. great and small.
were added to Orchards record. The
Cripple Creek woman with whom he
committed higamy had three sons !;
Orchard stole high grade ore from a
messmate: he stole two cases of pow
der from the Vindicator mine; he stole
powder to make one OF the bombs
thrown into the Vindicator coal pile
and he told a lie.
The defense endeavored in various
ways to throw the shadow of doubt and
improbablity around the whole Vindi
Gator story and the alleged connection
Of w. F. Davis and William Easterly
with the affair and the circumstances
under which Orchard testified he me,
Meyer and Haywood and was paid fol
the commission of the crime, and tC
Giscredit Orchards story that he was
sent back to Cripple Creek with unlim
tied credit and orders to commit any
act of violence that he cared to. The,
confronted orchard with EaS erly an(
Owney Barnes and paved the way fo
the contradiction by them of the stor,
told by Orchard, and several times
during the day paved the way TO
the controvertion OF his testimony ol
material points. Orchard stood th
strain and test very well, and hel,
tenaciously to his story.
Suddenly toward the close of tn
day the defense took up the trip On
chard made to southern Colorado wit
Meyer in the early part of 1904 an
showed that Meyer feared to go sOut
unguarded because "mine owners o.
fetal thugs" had beaten up innocen
union men, and had sent for Orchar
to aid in protecting him.
1t was agreed that they should ca
ry cutoff shotguns and sit in the Gel
ter OF the railway car, so that II the
were attacked they could defend then
selves. Attorney Richardson, in que'
tioning the witness, made il yer
clear that this had been a perfect
straight proposition. free from an
fake"
Counsel fared up several times du
ing the day, and in the last passag
at arms Prosecutor Hawley said tina
Richardson told a falsehood when h
intimated that Orchard was a fixe