The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-06-15

BOISE, June 1.-THE prosecution In
the S,ennenhsrg murder trial today. en-.
teriHg In earnest upon The substantial
tlon and corroboration oi Orchards tes.
timouy showed continuous thread III
evidence connecting George Pettibone's
store. 10 Denver, with Orchard, at San
Franeisco, engaged Ia the bradley muir.
der plotj partly developed another d..
rect linz by which Il hopes 10 show that
Haywood engaged and paid steve
Adams for the same dcspemte work and
also added several tonchca cf r0nfrna.
tioa 10 Orchards general story.
Officials Of the United States post
Office At San Francisco and Denver pro.
dnced their annual records showing that
August l0& a registered letter was sent
under tho name Of j. Wolf from the
address of pcttibone'e store. Ia Denver,
% J. Dempsey II the Golden West
Hotel IN San Francisco,
Orchard swofe TINT he stayed at the
Golden West Hotel under an alias that
was either Dempsey or Hogan, that
Pettibone used the aliases Of swolfs
and "rat Bone, that under the name
Of Wolf, pettibonc In the month men.
TONED sent him registered letter con.
tanning 800 TO pay his expenses while
engaged In the Bradley murder The
police officials Of Ogden established the
arrest there In June, 1908, Of Steve
Adams and A, T. williams. They were
sealed up in an east.bound ear loaded
with fruit when arrested for treapass.
Each had brace Of rcyolvcr. When
released through the influence Of do.
tcctive who was a brother Mason, OF
Adame, they went to the Western
Union Office and sent telegram to1
Haywood. At Denver. The defense head.
cd of the attempt TO get the contents
of the telegram before the jury but the
state Indicated Il would return TO the
charge later and would further develop
the incident.
The state through nm official Of the
Western Union produced an original, h
telegram supposed to have been sent BY
Attorney Fred Miller Of Spokane, now
recorded as one Of Haywood's counsel.
to Orchard after the latter was ar.
rested at Caldwell for the Steunenberg
murder but did not introduce It be.
cause it's Identification is still insuilic.
lent. The state also got an order from
the court directing the Western Union
TO produce its records which are said
TO show that Haywood sent money tol
Steve Adams, at Ogden. Steve Adams1
was brought into court to be identified.
Adams seemed In defiant humor; he
walked to point directly in front of
the jury and gazed steadily at the wit.
ness confronting him, Other portions
OF Orchards story were corrohorated by
several witnesses Testimony showed
that all witnesses have been located and
interviewed by Pinkertons and that
they had been given advances of OK.
pense money through the Pinkerton
agency.
Clarence /. HarMh was called TO the
stand. The witness worked on cage
In the vindicator mine in 1909 and AZ /
The time Orchard said he and COM
panlon went into the mine TO set on 4 |
carload Of powder they had discovered.
They were discovered by cage man but
drove him back by shooting at him,
Harrah told on the stand today of hav-
ing discovered man in one Of the tun-
nels. The man shot at him and he
went back to his cage. Harrah said he
saw only one man. The incident cc-