The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-12
The Awful Stories Told by
Harry Orchard Have Appar-
emily Had Little Effect on
The Man Accused of Murder
DEFENSE WITNESS is
STILL BEING GRILLED.
Attack of the Defense on the
Testimony of Orchard Goes
On UnremittingIy- Showed
Some Emotion tuesday.

Boise, June 12.-W. d. Haywood is
as confident of acquittal as ever. The
awful stories of Harry Orchard have
apparently had little effect on hint
Attorney Richardson is putting Or
chard through gruelling today with
reference to the murder Of Governor
Steunenberg.
The attack of the Haywood defense
on the testimony of Orchard goes on
unTemittingly, and the witness viii
probably be continued on the stand
through Thursday. Tuesday began
with the story of the dyRamiting of
Fred Bradley in San Francisco. and
the defense made a long and determin-
ed effort to expose several features OF
it to doubt. improbability and further
discrediting. and to vitiate it all by re-
vealing the hand of the Pinkertons.
Then the play went back TO Denver
for the winter of 19o405. and the
spring following. and there was an eX-
tended effort to show that Orchard had
practically no communication with the
leaders of the federation. so that he
received no pay for the Bradley crime
or anything else. and that with Steve
Adams. in period of extreme power
ty extending over d period of several
months. he was reduced to the necessi-
ty OF stealing a sheep that he might
have food
More Shocking Crime.
Orchard, To a laughing court room.
seriously confessed that he stole the
sheep. but stoutly denied that it was
because of want. He insisted that all
through that supposedly hard winter
and spring he continued to draw mon
ey from Pettibone, through Adams,
and explained that if he did not see
the federation leaders often it was
because he was lying low To avoid cap
ture for previous crimes.
The Globeville inquiry developed a
more shocking crime. At this Denver
suburb there was a diabolical plot
Orchard swore it was inspired by Max
Malichi. the defense claimed that Or
chard was its author-to dynamite a
boarding house where $50 non-union
men lived. and in preparation for the
murder en- bloc. Orchard. Adams and a
man named Joe Mahalicht. broke into
magazines and stole coo pounds of dy-
Mantle. which they lugged home at
night and buried in their cellar. The
crime was abandoned, Orchard said, in
one of those flashes that make his tes-
timony remarkable, because Haywood
interfered and forbade him to have
anything to do with it.
Trap of the Defense.
Carrying out the lines of testimony
tending TO show that Orchard regard
less of the great hold which it is pre-
ers. was frequently without funds. the
defense showed that from late in 1908
until the middle of 1901 Orchard con-
tinually drew strike relief at Cripple
Greek and then dramatically invited
OTcts~ % explain the inconsistency
TO TIE ury. Orchard replied that Hay
wood. Meyer. Parker and Davis all ad-
vised him To continue drawing relief
because if he displayed money he
would excite suspicion.
In five minutes TUESDAY Orchard
showed more emotion than at any time |
since he began his testimony. 1t was
when the defense in roughshod di- |
gression asked him if he had not de-
serted his Cripple Greek wife. strip |
ping her of every nickel she had, |
and leaving her in poverty that COM
PEELED the sale of her wash tub to buy
bread. Orchards lip quivered. and |
with tears near he falteringly denied |
that he had done so, and said that the /
federation leaders had promised to |
care for her in his absence.