The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
FOR RANSOM
Orchard Plotted to Steal
and Hold a Child.
GRIMES IN IDAHO.
Are RecOunted, Including Burglary,
Till Tapping and Lesser Deeds
A Remarkable Story.

Boise, Idaho. June 13.-The defense
on Wednesday carried the cross-ex.
animation of Harry Orchard down to
the actual crime charged against Hay.
wood, the murder of Frank Steunen-
berg. The Steunenberg crime was
reached at midday, and counsel for the
defense directed their efforts to an at.
tempt to cloud the earlier purposes
and movements OF Orchard with un.
certainty. Then they emphasized the
abandonment of all efforts to kill after
Orchard first tracked Steunenberg to
hotel in Boise and with a skeleton key
gained entrance to the room in which
the governor was living.
Here they delayed for moment to
prove that Orchard twice wrote and
once telephoned to Bill Easterly at
Silver City to urge him to come and
Join In the crime, and the direct i'm.
plication was that Orchard was en-.
deavoring to invelgle another feder.
alton man into the crime, which would
bring dishonor to the organization.
Then the witness was carried on his
long journey into north Idaho and his
crimes there, including plot to kid
nap and hold for ransom August Paul.
son's child were emphasized. Orchard
swore that David Coates. formerly
lieutenant governor of Colorado and
late publisher in Wallace. Idaho, first
suggested the kidnapping to Pettibone
and himself at Denver. Paulson, once
a poor miner, had made a fortune in
the Hercules mine, in which Orchard
held an Interest when the property
was not paying; and 1t was believed
that If his children were stolen he
would come up" with $500 or $50.
900 In ransom. Orchard said when he
went to north Idaho he got Jack Simp.
kins to enter the plot and together
they went to Coates to renew the
scheme
Coates was asked to stand up and
Orchard said he was the man Orch
ard was then asked whether he had
not himself proposed the crime to
Coates, who rebuffed him, and whether
Jack Simpkins had not warned Paul.
son the minute he heard of the Mot.
orchard denied both suggestions and
insisted that Coates was to stay in the
plot and handle the money they hoped
TO get from Paulson. Then the de-
Tense showed the witness in the com
mission OF series of mean crimes
and reduced to poverty. in which he
had to resort to pawning borrowing
and stealing to live for a long period.
First he pawned jewery and guns
for $25 or $50. Then he accepted the
hospitality of Paulson's home while he
was plotting to steal Paulson's child.
After that, with Jack Simpkins. he
broke into the Oregon Railway aud
Navigation Co.'S station. They we're
after a trunkful of jewelry samples.
but instead got a trunkful of shoe sam.
Piles. Next he tapped cash register
at Burke for $50 or $40.
Summing up this period OF crime,
poverty and hard luck, the defense
wanted to know why, If he were in
Idaho on a mission OF murder for Hay
wood, Meyer and Pettibone and with
unlimited credit from them, he did not
send to them for money, instead of
borrowing and stealing. Orchard re.
piled that he did send letter TO
Meyer at Butte and got 800, but that
he did not send to Haywood for more
because he was temporarily of the
Steunenberg murder errand and away
from where Steunenberg lived.
Lastly, there came showing that
Orchard had borrowed $500 from
Paulson on the strength of fraudu.
lent story that he was going to Los
Angeles to sell mining stock for
Coates, and that this was the money
that paid his expenses when he went
back to Caldwell on the final mission
OF murder.