The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11
.TREACHEROUsT OCOMRAOEs
Tried 10 Stand In With Both
Sides
Entered Employ of Man Who Had
Charge of Railroad Detectives
Theft and Lying Added to Witness
Record-Charge That Orchard Was
affixed Witness Caused Spat Be-
tween Lawyers.

for M. D. Haywood continued their
attack on the testimony OF Harry Or
chard at both sessions of the trial to-
day and conferred their strongest as
sault on the events beginning with
the explosion in the Vfndicator mine
and ending with the early meeting be-
tween the witness and the leaders of
the Western Federation of Miners in
Denver. To the extent that traffic with
the "other side" in the war with la
Dor and capital in Colorado was dis
c~reditable, they succeeded in discred-
iting the witness.
Taking up the admission that Or
chard made in direct examination that
he had been ~treacherOus to his COM
rades in Cripple Creek by tipping of
a training wrecking plot, they devel-
Oped the fact that Orchard entered. the
employ of D. G.. Scott who had charge
of the railway detectives. Orchard
said that with Scott he had met K.
G. Sterling, a detective in the employ
of the Mine Owners Association and
that Scott had paid bis expenses and
accompanied him to Denver on tn
trip when he first had met Meyer
and Haywood. He said that he had
agreed to report to Scott but that he
was Icing to him, never intending 10
mako p6nnrfc tn him onI noraa ~
make reports.
The defense also tried to show tina
because he stood IN with the other
side, Orchard was aever molested by
the militia in Cripple Creek during tn
strike.
Orchard admitted that Scott had
told him hat if the militia iaterfered
with him he was to send for him and
that the militia never did interfere
with him or search his house.
Orchard said that he went to Scott
first because he had not been paid
for his work at the Vindicator m:1o
and he was Jealous because he gas
give nhard work ike the Vindicator
JOO Willie cLACI IuCI SUI tIc SlIfaDIC
task of train wrecking by displacing
a rail-.
More crimes, great and small, were
added to Orchards record today. The
Cripple Greek woman with whom he
committed bigamy had three sons1
Orchard stole high grade ore from a
mess mate; he stole two cases of pow
der from the Vindicator mine; hs
stole powder to make one of the bombs
thrown into the indicator coal pile
n he told a lie.
The defense endeavored in various
ways to throw the shadow of doubt
and improbability around the whole
indicator story and the alleged con
nection of W. F. Davis and William
Easterly with the affair and the cir
cumstances under which Orchard tes-
titled he met MoAer and Haywood
and was paid for the commission of
the crime and to discredit Orchards
story that he was sent back to CriL-
pie Creek with unlimited credit aud
orders to commit any act of violence
that he cared to. They confronted
Orchard with Easterly and Owney
Barnes and paved the way for the
contradiction by them Of the story
told by Orchard, and several times
during the day paved the way for the
contradiction by them of the story
terial points. Orchard stood the test
and strain very we'll and held tena-
ciously to the story he told yesterday
and day before.
Suddenly toward the close of the day
the defense took up the trip Orchard
made to southern Colorado with Moy-
er in the early part OF 1905 and show
ed that Meyer feared to go south un-
guarded because mine owners official
thugs" had beaten ZIP innocent un-
ion men and he had sent for Orchard
to aid in protecting him.
1t was agreed that they should carry
cutoff shot guns and sit in the center
of the railway car SO that if they were
attacked they could defend themselv-
es. Attorney Richardson in question:
ing the witness made il perfectly clear
that this had been a perfectly straight
proposition "free from any fake"
Counsel fared up several times dur
ing the day, and in the last passage
at arms Prosecutor Hawley said that
Attorney Richardson told a falsehood
when he intimated that Orchard was
a fixed witness.
! The trial goes on at $50 tomorrow
when the cross examination of Or
chard who has been On the stand for
three days will be concluded.