The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-13
ORCHARD WEEPS.
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| inaI was touched-the thick armor
was pierced. Tears welled to Or
| chard's eyes. He shook them off and
wiped the stains away with his hand
kerchief. But Orchard did not hest
| tate with his replies-they came as
promptly as ever and he soon regain
! ed control of himself when Richardson
| plunged into a line of questioning, in
tended to develop what MCFARLAND
had told Orchard concerning the story
of the Molly McGuires in the anthra-
cite fields of Pennsylvania. Orchard
said MCFARLAND had told him a good
deal about the lawlessness of the Molly
McGuires.
.ckelIy the Bum"
Did he tell you about Kelly the
Bum Pr
And that Kelly had committed
many murders, but turned states evil
dence and escaped punishment"
HE told me he was a Witness
Did he tell you he had promised t.
protect Kelly and had kept his word?''
And AND that after the trials he gave
Kelly $1,000 on which to leave the coun-
try?" ass
what did he tell you?"
HE said a subscription had been ta-
ken up and said S700 or $500 had been
collected for Kelly"
And that he was allowed to leave
the country?"
Yes, sir
And that Kelly had reformed and
become good citizen?"
Il think he said Kelly never did re-
form"
Did he tell you about man named
Kerrigan getting off for testifying?"
mo, SIR
Orchard said that when he was first
introduced to MCFARLAND. the detective
wanted to know If the prisoner believed
in God.
Il had been thinking about such
things" said Orchard. MCFARLAND said
the murder of Steunenberg and that
L had been at the headquarters of the
Western Federation. of Miners
Continuing his questions about Mol
~ McGuires, Richardson wanted to
know if MCFARLAND had told Orchard
of a man named Muir LawIor.
Never Heard OF MUIR Lawlor.
mo, sir" said Orchard
Didn't MCFARLAND tell you that at
the time he was sent into the anthra-
cite fields there had been but three
murders, but after he became a MEM
Der of the miners union and the Molly
McGuires there were twenty or more?"
NO sir"
Before the witness was allowed to
answer the question, however, there
came a vehement protest from Attor-
ney HaWley for the state, who declar-
ed that no latitude of cross examina-
tfon gave the counsel the right to put
an imaginary conversation into the
mouth of witness and thus prejudice
the jury despite the fact of denials of
any such conversation. Richardson in
reply declared that Orchard has been
fitted for this examination,' was an
accomplice and a master criminal, but
was now trying to help the state.
''If there had been influence or in
ducement as to securing this evidence
we have a right to inquire into it, the
attorney commended. Judge Wood said
he would allow the widest latitude.
Didn't MCFARLAND tell you that ev-
cry man of the Molly McGuires who
turned states evidence was allowed to
go free ?ifi4--,--f - -
81 don'tsknow that he did. Some of
them escaped
Did he promise you 500 or $500
if you confessed and involved others ?"
mo sir. he did not
But that was the impression he left
upon your
Il don't know that there was any
impression except that 1 doubted the
truth of what he told me about the
men,"
Richardson took Orchard back to
his home in Canada and asked if he
had not been connected with a Sunday
school. Orchard replied in the af-
firmative but said he had never been a
superintendent. The witness said he
often went to church as a young man
to Quaker meetings with his par
ents and to the Methodist church with
his first wife.
Did you belong to the church when
you ran away with another mans wife
and sold short weight cheese ?''
mo, SIR
did you ever parade with the Sal
walton army?"
mo, SIR
Orchard said MCFARLAND told him
he was something like kelly the
bum" and that Kelly had gone free.
After MCFARLAND began to visit him
Orchard remained in the same cell but
his food was served from the guards
kitchen-not the ordinary prison fare.