The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-05
THE HA WOOD TRIAL..
Vengeance Was Orchards Motive.

Vengeance Was Orchards Motive.
Boise, Idaho, June 27.-The first di-
rect testimony in defence of William
ID. Haywood was offered Yesterday,
and it was chiefly directed toward
showing that Harry Orchard, blaming
Frank Steunenberg for the loss of his
interest in the Hercules mine, had
threatened to have revenge by killing
him, and that the conduct of Orchard
and X. c. Stirling, both before the In
dependence explosion, when they were
frequently seen together, and after
wards when Sterling called off a blood
hound that was following Orchards
trail, justified the inference that the
mine owners inspired the crime.
Orchard on the Stand.
The calling of the first witness for
the defense was preceded by a further
examination of Orchard to permit the
defense to complete its formal i'm
peaching questions. These questions
We're nearly all in connection with the
claim that Orchard killed Steunen-
berg because of an alleged grudgc
growing out of the sale of his interest
- ~ ffli, VIZ 6lI
denied that he eve threatened to kali
S~teunenberg because of the Hercules
mine, and again asserted that he had
sold his interest in the mine two years
before the trouble that drove him out
OF Northern Idaho.
TWO witnesses called later in the
day swore that Orchard threatened to
Kill S~teunenberg because of the Her
cules min matter, and the defense
has prepared the way for such testi-
mony from a dozen more witnesses.
Several Witnesses located Orchard
at various conferences with Sterling,
the detective for the mine owners as
ISOLATION, prior to the Independence
explosion.
Tracked by Dog.
Another witness old of the effort to
locate the men guilty of the indie
pendence station outrage by starting
a bloodhound from the chair rung
used iii pulling off the mine explosion.
He said the dog tool the road to Col
orado Springs, the one over which Or
chard fled in the night, and that when
he reported to Sterling he got orders
to call the dog off. Sterling said he
knew who blew up the station and
later said that it was Steve Adams
Denies Story Told by Orchard.
Boise. Idaho. June 2S.-William F..
Davis of Goldfeld. New, one of the
most important witnesses for the de-
Tense of William ID. Haywood, accused
of the murder of Frank ~Steunonberg.
was called to the stand at noon yester-
day, and his cross-examination had
not been completed when court I'd
journed. Harry Orchard testified that
Davis led and commanded the moi
that destroyed the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill in 1899; inspired. as the
agent of Haywood n Meyer, the Vim
dicator explosion and the train wreck
ing plot at Cripple Greek, and was an
accomplice in the Independence sta
ton crime.
Denies Orchards Story.
On direct examination by Clarence
barrow he went over the story of his
working life, including the pathetic
story of the death of his wife and
babe at Cripple Creek, at which he
wept, and made positive denial of
every statement of Orchard that in
volved him or his associates in any
form of crime. He denied that he
was ever a member of the union
when the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine was blown up. and at the con-
cluslon of his general story swore
that at Cripple Creek. during the
strike, Orchard told him of the Her
cules mine affair and threatened
To Kill Steunenberg.
Mrs. Lottie Day of Denver testified
that in 1904 Orchard told her about
the loss of the Hercules interest, and
that he said he would kill Steunen-
berg for the wrong done him, and
John d. Elliott swore hat Orchard
told him in Idaho in 1905 that he was
in the employ of the mine owners,
and that there was a plot against the
federation and it's leaders.
Judge Wood Rules Against Haywood.
Boise. June 90. = A ruling made
yesterday by Judge Wood while Ed
ward Boyce, for years the leader of
the Western Federation of Miners
and now a wealthy mine owner Of the
Occur d'Alenes. was testifying in be-
half of William d. Haywood, may ma
t~erially limit the showing of the de-
Tense as to the existence of the coun-
ter conspiracy against Haywood and
his associates which it alleges.
Claims Same Latitude as State.
James H. Hawley, for the state, oh
jected to a general question as to the
policy and practice OF mine owners
throughout the West in blacklisting
union miners, and in the argument
that followed Clarence barrow, for the
defense. claimed the same latitude in
proving counter-conspiracy that the
state enjoyed in showing a conspiracy.
Mr.. Hawley contended that the state
had directly shown the existence of a
conspiracy by Harry Orchard, and by
SO doing had laid the foundation for
and made the connection of all the
evidence subsequently offered ON the