Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-14
ORCHARD WEEPS
UNDER LAWYERS
P|T|LEsS FIRE
Sobs When Telling Of
His Conversion
Says He Sought to Save His Soul by
Relating Truth-DenIes That
Confession Was Taught
BY Associated Press.

BOISE, Idaho, June 13.-The men who
are battling to save the life Of William
D. Haywood and the good name of the
their greatest assault upon Harry
Orchard today when carrying the re-
view by cross examination of his life
of crime down to his confession they
bitterly assailed his guiding motives.
Six days they spent in stripping him
before the jury of every shred of
morality Of character and then sudden
ly turning upon him in final fierce at
tack, they fought with every means
known to the legal craft to convince
the jury that Orchard was committing
crime in falsely swearing away the
lives of innocent men in the hope OF
saving his own. They carried their at
tack to the very language with which
the witness answered their questions
and everywhere they alleged by force
full implication that it was put into his
mouth by men controlling him.
The series of quickly delivered at
tacks gave to the trial, amid scenes
centering around the witness chair In
Judge Woods court, a depth of dra-
interest that gripped and held every
man and woman who watched and lis
tened. Orchard failed when they re-
cited to him the tale of King David
and Uriah that Detective MCFARLAND
related to him when he came seeking
a confession. He fought to save him
self, but the tears filed his eyes ana
he rocked unevenly, like fainting
woman His voice lowered to huski-
No =, ID In a han6<er-
chief.
Then he steadied himself and went
| on strongly to the end. He defended
| his motives by saying that he had nm
ally found true conversion and in peni-
tence had resolved to make all possi-
BILE reparation by freely eonfessing all.
i MCFARLAND had told him that he was
doing a great service for the state and
| that states were kind to men who
served them; there was no other
promise.
Hammered by Richardson
"You knew that if you confessed to
the Steunenberg burder the state would
put YOU out of the way?" hammered
Attorney Richardson.
| Eyes, sir"
"And would do it quickly?"
at believed they would put me out OF
the way
! "But somewhere along the line the
| thought came to you that you could
get out of 1t by laying 1t onto some
body else?"
"No. sir; that was not the thought
at all:''
And here it was that Orchard gave a
remarkable explanation of the motives
| that impelled him to confess. His voice
| fell to low tone, but there was no
other show of emotion. Complete
| A,-I 70 "a
room. The whizz of an electric ran
overhead was the sole accompaniment
of the recitation.
"I thought" he said, "of putting my
self out of the way, but thought over
NV past life. I did not believe IN
hereafter at all, but was afraid to die
and 1 thought at times that had peen
such an unnatural monster-my crimes
| had been so great-that would not be
forgiven"
"Who told you that?
mo one"
"Who wrote that out for you?"
| "No one. but after had been sent a
Bible and had read 1t some | came TO
| the conclusion that l would be Tor
given If I made a confession of every
| thing. I began to think that the grave
did not end everything, and made up
nv mind to tell the truth about the
whole thing"
80 you thought you would make
YOUR peace with the future by having
somebody else hung, did your asked
Mr.. Richardson.
"Hls Duty to Tell"
"No sir. 1 think any man can make
his peace with the future If he wants
to. / believed it was my duty to tell
the truth. I did not see any other
way, regardless of the consequences
to myself or anybody else. owed 1t
to society, I owed, 1T to God and to
| myself" .,
chard did not get the reference to
his duties to society, God and himself
directly from MCFARLAND or another
| person it was suggested to him by the
oath he took when he Joined the
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