The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-26

Roise, Idano, June Pa new at
torney appeared at the defendant
counsel table when the Haywood tri
al was resumed this morning, making
the tenth of the long list of attorneys
engaged in behalf of the accused min
ers. The new conner is Walter E. Nc
Cornack of Chicago. Mccormack has
been engaged in the search for evi-
dence for the defense in Colorado and
has been in Boise only since the de
tense opened its case.
The first witness of the day was
Mrs. Lottie Day, who knew Orchard
at the Belmont rooming house in
Denver under the name of ]. Demp-
sey. Mrs. Day said she met Orchard
just prior to the convention of the
Western Federation of Miners in 1904.
Once when she was talking to him
Haywood and a man named McDon-
aid, who was also connected with the
Federation, came in. Orchard intro
duced her to Haywood and then
went away with him. Mrs. Day said
The witness related a conversation
with Orchard when the latter told her
that poverty had separated MIN from
the one woman he had loved, and
that Steunenberg was responsible for
his being poor, and he would get even
with him if it was the last act of his
life. The witness said Orchard told
her about gambling and said he al
ways kept little money put away,
that when he made a raise" he put
some money away with Pettibone and
drew it as he needed it. On cross ex-
animation Mrs. Day said she now con
Quoted a rooming house in Cripple
Creek, but lived most of the time in
Denver. She was introduced to Orch
ard by PettibOne, whom she knew
two years prior to 1904. She said Pet
tibone never visited Orchard.
Mrs Day said Orchard declared he
would nave been a millionaire if it
had not been for the decision of Gov
ernor Steulenberg. There was
clash between the attorneys of oppos-
ing sides when the prosecution an
nounced that it might want to exam
inc the witness further at a later
date. The defense objected to keep
it's witnesses on expenses after it had
finished with them. Finally the Judge
ordered Mrs. Day to remain in Boise
until released by the court.
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testified that he met Orchard on the
train late in November, 1905, and that
Orchard told him he was agent of the
Mine Owners Association, and that
there would soon be pulled off plot
tnat would destroy the leaders of the
Miners Federation. Elliott submitted
to a long cross examination. At its
conclusion the Judge announced that
all witnesses would be excused as
soon as they testified, except those
whom the state desired to remain il
Boise AS to those he said the state
would pay their per diem expenses.
John NJ. O'Neill, editor of the Min
ers' Magazine, was the next witness.
He declared that Meyer and Haywood
mad nothing to do with the magazine,
although they occasionally wrote
signed articles He said that he some
times consulted some member of the
executive board as to what to say in
the magazine, but usually consulted
no one. Some of. the editorials were
read on cross examination, and
O'Neill said he wrote them and was
for them One of these
contained the expression, Press dis
patches report the dissolution of Gov
ernor Steunenberg by the bomb
route" Another editorial in infiamma-
tory terms detailed the outrages in
the 'ebull-pe1" in 1899, attrfbuting to
the responsibility for
the BLACK brutes Of soldiers who out
ragged the wives and sisters of the
miners and refused the request of a
miner who, with the dew of death
upon his brow. asked for minister.
and was told that he could make nis
confession in hell"
The editorial ent oa to say that the
death Of Steunenberg was step for