Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-05
ORCHARDON STAND
|N HAYWOOD TRIAL
Main Witness For the State
Tells of Various Crimes Dur
ing Miners Troubles
WITNESS COOL AND COLLECTED
Details Blowing Up Of concentrator at
wardnsr During cour d'AIene Trou-
bles-Later TELLS Story of Plot to
Get Rid Of s..unenberg and Declares
Federation Officers Inspired It.

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Boise, Idaho June 5.-The Haywood
trial has been resumed at a. m.
. j. M. Brunzell, Of Nampa, hotei
keeper, testified to the presence OF OF
Harry Orchard and simpkins IN
Nampa in the summer of 1905 A.
Hinkey, another, hotel keeper Of Nampa
testified to the presence Of Orchard
and simpkins in October, 1905. Or
chard will say he went to Nampa to
i kill Steunenberg.
q Haywood's mother came into court
while Hinkey was under examination.
John C. Corners, a hotel keeper OF
Silver City, Idlaho, identified d<@the reg
lister to show the presence of Sinking :
at silver City, Nov. 8, 1905. G. H.
wenz, a bookkeeper for mining COM
pany at Wardner, Idaho, identified a
photograph of simpkins, and his hand
writing on the register.
Harry Orchard. the self-confessed
murderer OF steunenberg. was called to
the> stand at 9:42. Orchard entered
the court roora by a back stairway in
the company ,f Jailer Rasbeamer and
a number Of guards He looked cool
and collected Haywood kept his eyes
steadily fixed upon Orchard, who kept
his gaze to the front Haywood evil
IDENTIFY tried to get Orchards eye, but
except for an occasional glance, Or
chard did not look toward Haywood.
u Orchard Tells His Story.
Hawley commenced the direct ex-
animation Orchard said he had been
aheld onsa charge Of murder since jan
uary 1, 1906. He said he was born in
Ontario, had been known as Orchard
for eleven years, but that his real
name was Alfred Hansley. Orchard
testified that he became member of
the Western Federation of Miners in
1899, while at work as a mucker at a
mine in Burke Hawley took Orchard
thru a close exa aminatipn, leading up
to the ,Cour a. Alene mining troubles
in 1893. He was located at Gen, Wal
lace and Wardner. 1t was at Wardner
the first trouble occurred.
Defense objected to the introduction
of evidence bearing on the Cour s.
Alene trouble as having no bearins on
/ the case against Haywood. Judge
Wood admitted the testimony and said:
ssThe court could easily see it might
be important" This appears to settle
the question as to the extent to which
Orchards testimony will be admitted
IN ms
form to tell the story Of the blowing
5fup Of the co1lcentrator at wardner. in
April, 1899, when two men were killed,
defense objecting continually
Orchard testified that he lighted one
or the fuses that blew up the concen-
traitor mill at Wardner and that two
men were killed.
Orchard Creates Stir.
lille Orchard testified, Deputy
Sheriff Beerner and his assistants
stood at the side of him about three
feet in the rear of the witness chair
When Orchard first came in there was
a stir in the court room and several
persons started to rise in their places.
Half dozen bailiffs chorused in un-
ion loud command to be seated.
In narrating the Couer d. Alene
troubles, Orchard said:
"On the morning of April %, 1899.
+ when Isgot thru breakfast, l was told
xhere was special meeting of the
union and everybody was expected to
be present. I went to the meeting
The meeting was called to order by the
secretary. who said it had been decided
that day to go to Wardner and blow
the mill at the Sullivan and Bunker
Hill mines and hang the superintend-.
ent. Arrangements had been made to
cut the wires along the railroad and
take possession of the Northern Pa
cific train. At Gem. we were to be
Joined by the Gem union and together
we were to proceed to Wardner. While
the secretary was telling US what was
planned by the central union, the pres
ident Of ou,. local came and said he
had not been informed of the meet
ing.
when told of the purpose, he OBJ
jected to it and there was discussion.
The motion to go to Wardner was I'm
ally carried by small majority. After
a vote nearly every man decided to go.
Paul Cochran and six other members
Of the union took charge of the train.
We went to Gem and took forty boxes
OF giant powder, but before the mine
was blown up 1t was decided to go
back to Gem and get more powder.
There were about thousand men on
the train, most Of them armed.
8S Fired on tho Mill.
"At Wardner We were told by w F.
Davis. who was in command. to line
I'm The men with long guns were
told to take the front ranks. followed
by the men with six shooters. We were
told to fire. upon the mill as We ap--
preached. This we did and the fire
was returned by the guards. 1t soon
developed. however. that there were
no ren in the mill and We took pos
session Powder was placed at three
places about the mill and it was blown
up.
aWhs ser nrs to the fuses?- =