The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-13
TELLS OF PLOT TO STEAL BABY Orchard Adds Kidnap-
 ping to List. STICKS TO TERRIBLE TALE Witness Reaches Taking Off of
 Steunenberg. Star Witness Tn The Haywood Murder Trial Continues His Gruesome
 Confession Of Murder and
 Crime.
STICKS TO TERRIBLE TALE

touay carried the cross examination of Harry Orchard down to the actual crime charged against William D. Hay wood. the murder of Frank Steunen- berg. and as it progressed assailed the testimony and the theory of the State resting upon it.
 The Steunenberg crime was reached at midday and counsel for the defense directed their efforts to an attempt to cloud the earlier purposes and move- ments of Orchard with uncertainty and indefiniteness. Then they emphasized the abandonment of all effort to kill after Orchard first tracked Steunen- berg to hotel in Boise and with a skeleton, key had gained entrance to the very room in which the Governor was living.
 Then the Steunenberg crime was tenn porarily thrust into the background, and the witness was carried over his long journey into North Idaho and his crimes there, including the dark plot to kidnap and hold for ransom the Paulson children, were forcefully em- phasized.. Orchard swore that Davis Coates. former Lieutenant-Governor of Colorado, and then a publisher in Wal lace, Idaho, first suggested the kid mapping to Pettibone and himself in Denver. Paulson. once a poor miner. had made fortune in the Hercules m WutCh uGku all HIS terest when the property was value less. and 1t Is believed that if his chill dren were stolen he would come through" with s50,000 or S60.o00 in ransom Orchard said that when he went to North Idaho he got Jack Simpkins to come in on the plot. and together they went to Coates to renew the scheme.
 Confronted by Coates.
 Coates was in court and was asked to stand up for Identification. and fac- ing him, Orchard said he was the man.
 Orchard was then asked if he him. self did not propose the crime to Coates, who immediately rehuffed him. and if Jack Eimpktns had not warned Paulson the minute he heard of the plot Orchard denied both suggestions and reiterated his first story. insist ing that Coates had consented to stay in the plot and handle the money that they hoped to get out of Paulson.
 Then the defense showed the Wit ness in the commission of @ series of crimes and reduced to poverty in which he had to resort to pawn shop, borrowing and theft. to live for a long period aFirst he pawned some tewelry and guns. This brought him s25 or $50. Then with a man named Gun nfngham whom he said Vincent St. John had recommended to him as safe and tried, he discussed project to give Cunningham thee old Peabody bomb which he still had in his trunk for use by Cunningham on some non union men that were at the Tigress- Poor Man Mine.
 Then he accepted the hospitality of Paulson's home, at the very time he was plotting to steal the Paulson chil- dren. After that with Jack Simpkins. he broke into the oregon Railway and Navigation Company's station. They were after a trunk full of Jewelry samples, but instead got trunk full of shoes, samples. Next he tapped cash register at Burke for $50 or $40.
 Crime and Poverty.
 It was a long period of crime and poverty and hard luck and summing it up, the defense wanted to know why. if he were in Idaho on mission or murder for Haywood, Mover and Pet tibone and with unlimited credit from them, he did not send for more money instead of borrowing and stealing. or chard replied that he did send let- ter to Mover at Butte and got $lOO but he did not send for more because he was temporarily off the Steunenoerg murder errand and away from where Steunenberg lived and he did not want to send for more money until ne coulo show that he was back to work.
 Lastly, there came showing that Orchard had borrowed $500 from Paul. son. whose children he had gone north to steal, on the strength of a fraud ulent story that he was going to Los Angeles to sell mining stock for Coates and that this was the money that ac- tually paid his expenses when he went back to Caldwell on the final mission of murder.
 Orchard was still on the stand when the court adjourned until tomorrow.