The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-06-13
SHEEP
STEALING
One of Harry Orchards Accom-
complishments- Defense Press
ing Him Hard For Dates and
Places.

The Haywood defense have Har-
ry Orchard on the rack, and Tues
day to laughing court room he
seriously confessed that he stole
sheep, but stoutly denied that it
was because of want. He insisted
all through that supposedly hard
winter and spring he continued to
draw money from Pettibone
through Adams, and explained
that If he did not see the federation
leaders often, it was because hc
was lying low to avoid capture for
previous crimes.
This Globeville inquiry develop
ed a more shocking crime. At this
Denver suburb, this was diabol-
zeal plot-Orchard sworc it was in
spIred by Max Malich; the defense
claimed that Orchard was its au.
thor-to dynamite a boarding
house where a $50 non union men
lived and in preparation for the
murder Orchard, Adams and a
man named Joe Mahalich, broke
INTO two magazines and stole six
hundred pounds of dynamite,
which they lugged home at night
and stored in their cellars. The
crime was abandoned, Orchard
said, in one of these flashes that
make his testimony remarkable,
because Haywood interviewed and
forbade him to have anything to do
with it.
Carrying out the lines of tcsti-
mony tending to show that Orch
ard, regardless of the great hold
which it is presumed he had on the
federation leaders, was frequently
without funds, and the defense
showed that from late iii 1903 until
the middle of 1904, Orchard con
tlnually drew strike relief at
Cripple Creek, and then they
invited Orchard to explain the
Inconsistency to jury. Orchard
replied that Haywood, Meyer, Par
kcr and Davis all advised him to
continue drawing relief, because if
he displayed money he would OK
cite suspicion. Examination next
covered the review of the earlier
attempt on the life of Governor
Peabody and making bombs to kill
him and plots against Judges Cab
bert and Goddard, with an effort
everywhere to Tighten and cast
doubt upon the testimony of the
witness. Orchard told Il dramatic
story of the first attempt to assas-
sldate PeabOdy-an early morning
drive through the snow to the place
of the bomb and wait for his vic
tim, who was spared by the uncx-
pected appearance of two coal wag-
ons, that coming from an alleyway
were driven across the trigger
string at the moment that Peabody
was crossing the mine field.
Orchard has also brought Mrs.
Steve Adams into the play. He
said while he and Adams were
watching Judge Goddard's house,
Mrs. Adams went with them a
couple of times as a blind to divert
suspicion from them. Mrs. Adams,
who had seat among the witness
es, laughed when Orchard te Id the
Orchard, who confessss that he
hesitated at no crime and took hun
dreds OF desperate chances in those
he committed, made an interesting
contribution to the psychological
study of his personality, when he
called himself Il coward. He said
he was too cowardly to openly kill
Judge Gabbart; said that he re-
garded all his acts as cowardly.
In five minutes Tuesday Orchard
showed more emotion than at any
time since he began his testimony.
1t was then the defense in rough
Shod depression, asked him if he
had not deserted his Cripple Greek
wife, stripping her of every nickel
she had and leaving her in poverty
that compelled the sale of her wash
tub to buy bread. Orchards lips
quivered and with tears near, he
falteringlT denied that he had done
SO and said that the federation
leaders had promised to care for