The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-14
Star Witness Weeps
 Like a Child.
DESCRIBES HOW HE WAS
 CONVERTED BY McPARLAND
Confessed Murderer Concludes Testi-
 mony--Seven Days Evidence.
Detective Told Him He Could Be of Great Service and That Such Witnesses Received Fair
 Deal.

Boise, Idaho. June 1S.-The men. who are battling to save the life of Wm. D. Haywood and the good name of the Western Federation of Miners, made their greatest assault upon Harry or chard today when. carrying the review of cross examination of his life or crime down to his confession, they Dit terly assailed his guiding. motives SIX days they spent in stripping him De- fore the jury of every shred of moral ity, of character and then, suddenly turning upon him in final fierce attack. 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 retrieving his own. They carried their attack to the very language with which the witness answered their questions and everywhere they alieged by forceIui implication that it was put into ms
 The series of quickly delivered at- lacks gave to the trial, amid the scenes centering around the high witness chair in Judge Woods court, depth of dramatic intensity, a competing human interest that gripped and heid every man and woman who watched and listened. Orchard paled when they recited to him the tale of David ana Uriah that Detective Mcfarland re- lated to him when he came seeklns a confession. He fought to save hlmseir hut tears filled his eyes and he rocked uneyenly like a fainting woman. HIS voice lowered to huskiness and he hid his face in handkerchief. Then nc steadied himself and went on strongly to the end He defended his motives by stating that he finally experienced conversion and penitence and had ie- solved to make any possible repara- tion by freely confessing all. McPar- land 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.
 He Believed It.
 s~you knew that if you confessed to the steunenberg murder the State would put you out of the way?" ham mered Attorney Richardson.
 "4nd would do it quickly"
 q believed they would put me ouF of the way"
 "Rut somewhere among the line the thought came to you that you could get out of 1t by laying 1t on someoody else"
 'No. sir; that was not the thought at all
 And here it was that Orchard gave a remarkable explanation of the mo lives that impelled him to conress. HIS voice fell to a low tone but there was no evidence of emotion. Complete sil- ence gave every word to the entire room. The ,vhiz of an electric Tan overhead was the sole accompaniment of the recital.
 .T thought" he said. "of putting my se,f ont of the way, but thought over my past life did not believe Tn a bereafter at all, but I was afraid 10 die and I thought at times that l nao haar such an unnatural monster-my crimes had been so greau-ehae "o"AN not be forgiven"
 "Who told you thatF
 'No one."
 "Who wrote that out for your
 "No one. but after had been sent a Rible and had read it some, l came to the conclusion that I would be 1orslN- en if made a confession of eVerytnins; I began to think that the grave u,u e, not end everything and l made up my ,.,n6 to tell the truth about the whole thing"
 50 YOU thought you would make vour peace with the future by having somebody else hung, did your asked Mir. Richardson.
 Thought He would Make Peace.
 'No, sir, I think any man can make his peace with the future if ne wants to [ believe it was t3y duty so tell the truth. I did not seq any other way regardless of consequence to my self or anybody else. owed 1t to so- ciety; l owed 1t to my God and to myself"
 The defense suggested that if Or chard did not get the refefence to hls duty to society, to God and himselr or nerson, 1t was suggested to him by the oath he took when he joined the Western pederation of Miners. They read him inc oath from .the ritual. When they did that he expressed the belief that the language had been given to him hv the Almighty. For hours the de- fenge hammered away on the motive of saving his own lire. lhey souen. to show it in the force of example Srawn from the immunity of inform ars Sin the Mollie McGuire cases, but thIs inc witness would not admit. Next thav sought for it in Orchards enort to bring Steve Adams to the State and then in his dealings with McParlano ana Governor Gooding. Once again they emphasized the fact that the Wit nasa had twice written his testimoay h,,t Orchard repalled the suggestion that 1t had been changed by McPar- land. Attorney Hawley or anybody else. After that it was suggested that Orchard had placed his future In the Leeninr of Mcfarland; that the Pinker- tons had sent money to his family in Canada; that he had been supplied with dates to strengthen his story and that Mcfarland had trained him as stage manager would for his appearance on the stand but all this Orchard denied, Then they tried to show him pamper- ed, petted. hero-like prisoner, fed from the table of the warden; addressed as .sHarry" by Governor Gooding and War den whitney, given freedom and fiber ties that no other prisoner ever had in tbe world, and all this consideration i'm ~Iv,n9 directly that he would never be hanged for killing steunenberg. Then came a showing as to how the prisonev had been dressed and groomed for the trial. and lastly for climax, they
 -h nIeading for and sav-
 condemned