The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-08
Are Following Up Harry Or
Chard's Connection With
The Mine Owners Detect
i've, as Shown Friday.
FACT ESTABLISHED BY
ORCHARDS OWN WORDS.
Mcfarland Will Follow Or
chard on Stand-WItness-
eS for Defense Say Orchard
Story viii Be Destroyed.

Boise. June s.-Orchard's connection
brought out in ross-examination yes
terday. is being followed up today.
1Iaywood's lawyers are pleased with
the results. establishing by Orchards
own words. that at the time he says he
was the professional murderer and dy-
naniter for the Western Federation of
Miners. he was taking money and rail
road passes from corporation detec-
tiyes and reporting TO them. Detec-
tive Mcfarland will follow Orchard on
the stand
Witnesses for the defense are arriv-
ing and assert that Orchards story
will be completely destroyed.
Attorney Richardson resumed the
cross examination of Orchard today
by beginning at the Western Fedora
tion OF Miners headquarters in Den
yer. Orchard says he went by the
names of Orchard Dempsey and Ho-
gan. in Denver He said Pettibone
and Haywood told him to get Pea
body After stalking Peabody q week,
he went to Cripple Creek TO get Steve
Adams to help assassinate the govern
or He knew Adams was last in jail
SO days for blowing UP the Vindicator
mine when he himself was guilty. Or
cflard denied talking with O'Neill. ed
ftor of the Miners Magazine, about
Peabody Richardson has 4 transcript.
of statements Of witnesses and is go
ing minutely into details over every
thing brought out by the state. Or
8chard declared funds for killing Pea
body were furnished by Pettibone.
Attack on Testimony.
Counsel for William D. Haywood
continued their attack on the testimo
of the trial Friday They centered
their strongest assaults on the events
beginning with the explosion in the
Vindicator mine ane ending with the
earlier meetings between the witness
and the leaders of the Western Fedora
1ion of Miners ia Denver. To the eX-
tent that traffic with the other side
in wars of labor and capital in Colora
do, was discreditabIe they succeeded
in discrediting the witness.
Taking up the admission that Or
chard made on direct examination that
he had been treacherous TO his COM
1ades in Cripple Greek by tipping
off a train wrecking plot, they devel
oped that Orchard entered the employ
of d. c. Scott. who had charge of the
railway detectives. Orchard said that
with Scott he had met X. c. Sterling.
n detective in the employ of the Mine
Owners association. and that Scott had
i Ii, u
him to Denver on the trip when he
first met Moyer and Haywood. He
said that he agreed to report to Scott. |
hut that he was lying To him. never
Intending To make reports to him, and
never did make reports. The defense
also tried to show that because he |
stood in with the other side, Orchard |
was not molested by the militia in
Cripple Creek Orchard admitted /
that Scott had told him that if the mi |
litia interfered with him he was to
send for him. and that the militia new +
er did interfere with him or search his {
house.
More Crimes Added to List.
Orchard said that he went to Scott
first. because he had not been paid for
his work at the yindicator mine and
was jealous because he was given hard /
work. like the Niudicator job while
other men got the simple task of train
wreciling by displacing rail
More crimes. great and small. were
added to Orchards record Friday. The +
Cripple Creek woman with whom he
committed bigamy. had three sons: Or
ehard stole high-grade ore from a
he stole two cases of pow
der to make one of the bombs thrown
into the Vindieator coal pile. and he
fold n lie.
The defense endeavored in various
ways to throw doubt and improbability /,
around the whole Vindicator story. I,
the alleged connection of ". F. Davis