Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-07-25

Under the guise Of rebuttal, as was
anticipated, the state is attempting to
bring up an imposing array of new
evidence in regard to the sins OF
unions in general, and union men in
particular.
Like the direct evidence everything
is Pinkertonism. The Pinkertons have
hunted up the witnesses and their
money is paid them from the Pinker-
ton office.
The attempt to prove that the Brad
ley explosion in San Francisco could
not be due to gas was ludicrous in the
extreme. G. ID. Lansom of the Boise
Gas Light company, qualified as an ex-
pert, and gave a blundering testimony
TO the feet that gas could not be
lighted by a glowing coal, as cigar,
but required a flame. Mr.. Richardson
asked him if he knew that a $4,000
Judgment had been rendered on the
testimony of the president of Leland
Stanford and Berkeley universities, and
other experts.
Orchard came on again Monday.
Eight Pinkertons were standing in the
the door while he gave his testimony
That precious Orchard must be guard
ed well, as he is all there is to the
great mine owners case. On his cross
examination he was asked as to his
grandfather and uncle being insane,
the former kept chained for many
years, and the latter committing sui
eide. They both were possessed by
hallucinations that they had committed
great crimes. While Orchard knew of
his uncle hanging himself he profess
ed ignorance of the insanity streak in
the family.
The attorneys for the defense have
received undisputable information that
such is the fact and indeed this line
of information seems the most plaus-
ible as solution of the murder-hend
riddle. Orchard stories have been
from the first amazing, unthinkable
and bewildering. Then his remarkable
AMI spectuclar conversion" was
equally dumbfounded. But the awful
lies he has been proven to have told on
the stand since the alleged "eonver-
sion" can admit Of but one interpre-
tation, that of disordered mind,
swayed by every influence that blows
across it. That he is Of quick, ner-
vous highly excitable temperament, is
evident to all observers, and an expert
on mental diseases far more satisfac-
torily and scientifically than court
fighting bitterly as to which class in
terests shall win.
In his early testimony Orchard
swore that he never knew Of any in
ner circle" in the Western Federation
of Miners. Richardson asked him why
he had published since then in Me-
Clure's magazine prolonged account
of this "inner circle" He said he
had forgotten that there was anything
about an "inner circle' in his pub
lished story.
f. M. Sabin, lawyer from Idaho
Springs, Colarado, proved a witness for
the prosecution that Mr.. Richardson
had been longing to get hold of. IL
was in Idaho Springs that the first de-
portation in Colorado took place. In
the trials that followed Sabin was
the attorney for the mine owners, and
Richardson for the miners. The APP
pearance of Sabin for the prosecution
gave Richardson chance to bring out
a large amount Of the history of the
Colorado atrocities. Mr.. Hawley OBJ
jected TO Richardson's handling OF the
witness. Richardson replied that he
had always beaten him, but he could
certify that Mr.. Sabin was thorougly
able TO take care of himself.
The miners were deported by a mob
that charged them with blowing up
the transformer house Of the Sun and
Moon mine. When the cases fell To
the ground without witness being
put on the stand by the defense. Mr..
Sabn admitted all this and said he did
not wish to deny TO Mr.. Richardson
the glory of that victory.
On Tuesday DIR. Il. r. Alden, n drug
gist of Burke, idaho, undertook to
show that Orchard was on the stolen
train because he did not see him
around town that day. Richardson
thoroughly disqualified him before he
got off the stand, showing that his
wife and family had left him on the
ground of insanity and violence.