The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-12
ORCHARD
THROUGH THE FIRE Rf|E
Witness Shows No Sign
Of Mental or Physi-
cal Flagging.
TELLS OF OTHER
AWFUL, CRIMES
Almost Wcpt When Poverty Of
Deserted Wife Was Mentioned.
Said Hc Was Too Much Of
: Coward to Kill in the W
Opcr-some New
Horrors.

BOISE, IDAHO. June 1.-THE attack
OF the Haywood defense on the testi-
mony Of Harry Orchard goes on unre-
mlttingly. and the witness will probablyI
be continued on the stand two full days |
more. Orchard withstands the strain
with remarkable fortitude. and at theI
end OF six days. shows no indication OF
mental or physical fagging.
To-day began With the dynamiting
OF Fred Bradley in San Francisco. Tho
defense made long and determinedj
effort TO expose several featuresJ OF 1t to
doubt ana improbabillty. and to vitiate
IT all by revealing the hand OF the
Pinkertons. BSs.9;
Then the play went back to Denver
for the winter Of 1904-19O5 and the
spring that followed, and tn ere was an
extended effort to show that OrchardI
had practically no communication with
Z the leaders OF the cration. that he
received no pay for the Bradley crime
or anything else. and that with Steve
Adams, In condition OF extreme pow
Hcrty extending over a period OF several
months, he was reduced to the necessity
of stealing sheep from the Globe
Vile Stock Yards thatshe might have
!, food.
Orchard. to a laughing courtroom,
confessed that he stole the sheep, but
stoutly denied that 1t was because OF
want. He insisted that all through
that supposedly hard winter and
spring, he continued to draw money
from Pettibone through Adams. and -
planned that IL he did not see fedora
( uon leaders often. 1t was because he
was lying low" to avoid capture.
One More Shocking Crime.
This Globeville Inquiry developed an
other shocking crime. At this. Denver
suburb there was a sdiabolical plot
Orchard swore II was Inspired by Max
Malich: the defense claimed, that Orr
,chard was its author--a plot to dyna-i
mite boarding house wherein 150E
non-nnion men lived, and In prepare.
tion for the murder len Nbluc.s Orchard, 1,
Adams and q man named j oc Mahaiich
broke Into two magazines and stole six
hundred pounds OF dynamite. which
they lugged home at night and buried
In their cellar. The crime was aban-
doned, Orchard said, In one OF those
flashes that makes his testimony re-
+ An:nrkable, because Haywood intervenod
and forbade to have anything to do
4 with It.
Carrying out the lines OF testimony
tending to show that Orchard. re-
gardess of the great hold which it
Is presumed he had on the federation
leaders, was frequently, without funds
the defense showed s1at from late In
1903 until the middle OF 1905 Orchard
continually drew strike relief supplies
ut Cripple Creek, and then dramatl-
cally invited Orchard to explain the
Inconsistency to the jury. Orchard
replied that Haywood, Meyer, Parker
and Davis all advised him to draw,
tho supplies because II he displayed
2 money he would excite suspicion.
Early Attempt to Murder.
The examination next reviewed the
earlier attempt on Governor Peabody
and the making OF the bombs to kill
him. and the plots against Judges Cab
( bert and Goddard, with an effort every
where to Tighten and cast doubt upon
the testimony.
Orchard told dramatic story of til G
first attempt to assassinate Peabody
& ali early morning drive through the
y snow to place the bomb and await for
Il the victim who was spared by the un-
expected appearance Of two, coal wag-
ons, which, coming from an alleyway.
were driven across the trigger string
at the moment that Peabody was cross
Ing the mine. Orchard brought Mrs.
Steve Adams into the play to-day. He
said that while he and Adams were
watching Judge Goddard's house Mrs.
Adams went with them a. couple OF
times as a blind to divert suspicion
from them. Mrs. Adams, who had a
Sscnt among the witnesses. laughed
when Orchard told the incident
Calls Himself u Coward.
Orchard. who confcsses that he hest
tated at no crime and took a hundred
desperate chances In those he com
mitted, made an interesting contrlbu.
tion to the psychological study Of his
personality when he called himself q
coward. He said he was too cowardly
TO openly Kill Judge Gabbert: that he
regarded all his acts as cowardly.
Witness Almost Wept.
In five minutes to-day Orchard show.
( pd more emotion than at any time since
he began his testimony. It was wher
the defense. in a rough -shod depression
asked him If he had not deserted hi.
Cripple Creek wife and left her In pov
srty that compelled her to sell he
wash-tub to buy bread. Orchards llp
quivered, and, with tears near, he ia
toringly denied that he had done so
and eaid that tho federation leader!
had promised to caIe for her In his alb
yence. seG
Tells OF Milk rlot.
Revcrting to his attempts on til,
life Of Fred Bradley, in San Francisco
Orchard said 1t was after he had seel
the milk delivered to the Bradley bacl
door several mornings In succession
that he conceived the idea OF poisoning
his victim rather than to use a bomb
With the failure Of the milk plot. h
went ahead and manufactured til
bomb. first buying q piece Of nvo-incl
lead pipe fourteen inches long. Or
uhard said he bought the pipe In
plumbing shop on Taylor Street, some
where In the 200 block.
Richard son wanted to know II Detec
tive McPartland had attempted to trac
the San Francisco locations for tn
witness.
"All3 I know Is that he investigate
the powder or dynamite purchase, II
brought me q list of tho sales Of tn
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