The Irish standard., 1907-06-29
Tells Of THREATS
MADE BY ORCHARD
SAID HE WOULD KILL STEUNEN
BERG, SWEAR WITNESSES
FOR HAYWOOD.
This He FIatly Denies-Defense Com.
pIetes Preparation for His lmpeach.
ment-His Association with Detec.
tive Sterling.

Boise, Idaho, June 26.-The first
direct testimony in the defense of
William D. Haywood was offered
Tuesday. and it was chiefly directed
toward showing that Harry Orchard,
blaming Frank Steunenberg for the
loss of his interest in the Hercules
mine, had threatened to have revenge
by killing him. and that the conduct
of Orchard and X. c. Sterling, both
before the independence explosion.
when they were frequently seen to-
gether, and afterwards. when Sterling
called off bloodhound that was fol
lowing Orchards trail justified the
inference that the mine owners in
spired the crime.
The calling of the first witness for
the defense was preceded by further
examination of Orchard to permit the
defense to complete its formal i'm
| peaching questions. These questions
were nearly all in connection with the
claim that Orchard killed Steunen-
berg because of an alleged grudge
growing out of the sale of his interest
in the Hercules mine
Witnesses Contradict Orchard.
Orchard, who came into court under
protection of the same flying squad
ron of guards that always acts as his
escort maintained his old Calmncas
and spoke in a lcw-pitched soft tone
He again denied that he ever threat
ened to kill Steuncnherg because of
the Hercules mine and again asserted
that he sold his interest in the mine
two years before the trouble that
drove him out of northern Idaho. Two
witnesses called later in the day
swore that Orchard did threaten to
kill Steunenberg because of the Her
cules matter, and the defense has pre-
from a dozen more witnesses. The
two heard we're: +. r. Redd, once of
Cripple Creek, and now of Goldfield,
New. and Charles A. Sullivan, former
,ly OF. Cripple Creek and now watch
man in the Brown hotel in Denver.
Orchard as Spotter.
DR.. l. L. MCGEE. a mining broker
of the Occur dAlencs. another inn
peaching witness, swore that Orchard
told him in 1904 at Wallace. Idaho,
that he was "spotter" for detec-
tive agency. Orchard denied this
conversation and denied that he was
] in Idaho at any time in 1904.
Several witnesses. principally WON
en-, who kept boarding houses at Grip
ple Creek, located Orchard at vari
GUS conferences with Sterling, the dc
tective for the Mine Owners associa-
ton, prior to the Independence explo
sion, and there was a further showing
as to meetings between Orchard and
D. c. Scott, the detective for the
Florence & Cripple Creek railway.
Case for Haywood Outlined.
Boise, Idaho, June 25.-ln an adj
dress that occupied two sessions OF
the district court Monday Clarence
barrow, of Chicago. outlined to the
Jury the defense of William d. Hay
wood to the charge that he murdered
former Gov. Steunenberg. In broad
description, it is to be denial OF
every material count in the testimony
of Orchard with a showing that Or
chard killed Steunenberg because OF
private grudge borne by the loss OF
rich share in the great Hercules
mine, and explanations of the indie
pendent circumstances that tend tc
connect three co-defendants with Or
chard's life and operations.
Denies Alleged Conspiracy.
MIR. barrow denied the existence oil
the great conspiracy TO murder al
legged by the state with Orchards ties
timony as basis; denied that the
federation was anything but ar
earnest fighting labor organization
with higher wages. shorter hours, tol
cradle working conditions and the
care and safety and education of Its
members and their wives and chill
dren as its high and only motives; de
MED the intimacy with the three co
defendants that Orchard laid claim
to; denied the several conferences an(
conversations that Orchard swore to;
denied that Orchard had even commit
ted many of the crimes he had boast
ed of, and promised to make PROOF
Of his contentious with many of the
men named by Orchard when on the
stand, and many witnesses Of cred
liable character not connected by any
tie with the federation or it's leader.
NINE BREWERIEs TO UNITE.