The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-06-11
steve ADAMS Will
TESTIFY
Illegal Wife Of Star Witness to Testify.
New Light Has Been Shcd On
Murder Of Denver Man.

another prisoner witness for the State
in the case against w. D. Haywood, is
now on his way. to Boise, coming from
the Jail at Wallace, where he is held
pending trial on the charge of murder
Adams, according to Harry Orchard,
was the partner of the great assassi-
nator in many Of the dumping off"
expeditions, successful and unsuccessful,
to which Orchard has made confession.
Adams also confessed last year, but
unlike Orchard, he repudiated the doc
ument when he faced the gallows The
confession is, however, sworn and in
writing. 1t shows careful correction
and Information in Adams own hand
writing. Astounding though it may
seem, those who have SC en- Adams con-
of cold blooded relation of man hunt
ing and murder. The list of Adams
alleged victims is not as long as that
with which Orchard credits himself, but
this is said to be because Steve still
hunted single quarry, while Harry,
to use his own words, "did not care
whether he killed one man or fifty
as he "felt at that time'
Another interesting witness who ar
rived in Boise today is Mrs. Toney-
Orchard, the widow with three chill
dren, whom Orchard took to wife not
withstanding the existence of another
wife living in Canada, and know there
under Orchards true name Mrs. Ida
Toney Orchard will be witness tor
the defense. 1t is understood she will
testify that Orhcard, while he lived at
Cripple Creek, was in the employ of the
mine owners. 1t is expected by the
defense that she will be able to throw
some light upon the motives of Orchard
and will be relied upon to strengthen
the claim of the defense that tie mine
owners, and not the Western Fedora
tion of Miners, were conspirators who
employed Orchard to murder. Orchard
married the second time a. Cripple
Creek when he was at work as n miner
At that time he was a member of tn,
Miners union. They were married
shortly before the great strike broke
out in 1904. The woman was keeping
a miners boarding house.
Some new light has been thrown OF
the murder of Lyte Gregory in Denver
According to statements made by tn,
police of Denver, Orchard and Simp
kins, or whoever his accomplice was
were suspected at the time of the
murder. Bloodhounds tracked them ia
the yard behind Pettibone's store
where Orchard said he hid his guns
and the other evidence that was dis
covered. The police were about to ar
%ks> 49, Il
from some mysterious source that the
men were not to be molested, and Or
chard was allowed to get out of town.
This statement is said to have been
made by Chief of Detectives Loomis of
Denver, and Paul Gregory, a brother
of the murdered man, has made sim
liar statement. 1t is likely that both
will be called as witnesses and the mys-
terious order allowing Orchard to get
away will be investigated
The arrival of witnesses is an in
teresting feature of the case. Men
whose names have been connected with
the history of the mining troubles and
the bloodshed in Idaho and Colorado
are seen continually on the streets, in
the court room or hotel lobbies. Angus
Sutherland, the little Scofchman who
was sheriff of Shoshone county, in the
Occur d'Alenes, himself famous gun
fighter; the marshal of Victor, Colo,
who went through the stirring times
of trouble there in 1903 and 1904 !;
Bulkeley Wells, the former adjutant
general of Colorado, who dug up the
bomb planted to kill Governor Peabody
.,x ah of .al
train that ran from Denver to Boise
with Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone
and which is generally called the kid
mapping trip, and dozen other men
of that ilk are here and will participate