The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15
HOLDS UP ORCHARD State Furnishes Evidence to Support His Story
 of Crime. THREAD OF EVIDENCE Hope to Show Haywood Engaged Adams for
 Desperate Work.
THREAD OF EVIDENCE

Boise, Idaho, June 14.-The prosecu- tion in the Steunenberg murder trial to- day, entering in earnest on the corrob- { oration of Harry Orchards testimony, showed continuous thread of evidence connecting George Pettibones store in Denver with Orchard at San Francis co while engaged on the Bradley mur- der plot, partly developed another d. rect line by which it is hoped to show that Haywood engaged and paid Steve Adams for the same desperate work, and added special touches on confirma- ton to Orchards general story.
 Officers of the postoffices at San Fran cisco and Denver produced original rec ords showing that on August, 1904, a registered letter was sent under the name of ''J. Wolff from the address of Pettibone's store In Denver to "J. Dempsey at the Golden West hotel, in San Francisco. Orchard swore that he stayed at the Golden West hotel un- der an alias that was either "Demu- sey" or Hogan" that Pettibone used the aliases of Wolf" and "Patbone," '" and that under the name of "Wolfp Pettibone in the month mentioned sent him registered letter containing $1OO to pay his expenses while attempting to kill Bradley.
 Police officers of Ogden established the arrest there in June, 1903 of Steve Adams and A. T. Williams. They were sealed in an eastbound car loaded with fruit When arrested for trespass each had 6 brace of revolvers. When re- leased through the influence of detec- tive to whom Adams appealed as a Mason, they went straight to the office of the Western Union and sent a tele- gram to Haywood in Denver. The de- fense headed off an attempt to get the contents of the telegram before the jury but the state indicated that 1t would return to the charge later and further develop the incident when it had broadened It's foundation. The state through an official of the Western Union produced the original of a tele- gram supposed to have been sent by Attorney Fred Miller of Spokane, now recorded as one of Haywood's counsel, tO l1dlly OIClldAQ p6lOI0 lHe IdlIST was arrested at Caldwell for the Steun- enberg murder, but did not introduce it because its Identification is still insuffi- cent. The state also got an order to court directing the Western Union to produce its records showing that Hay wood sent money to Adams at Ogden. When Ogden testimony was introduced Steven Adams was brought into court under guard to be identified. Adams name has run all through the trial, but this was his first appearance in person. Adams seemed In defiant hunlor and walked to a point directly In front of the jury and gazed steadily at the wit ness confronting him. The state also produced several witnesses to confirm flea lures of Orchards story as to the Bradley affair, the first decent into the Vlndicator mine with the object of do- ing violence, the final success of the Vindicator plot and the circumstances under which Detective Lyte Gregory was killed. Aside from it's fight against the admission of all the evidence offer- ed by the state, on the general ground that 1t was in no way connected with the accused. the defense contented it. self with showing that all of the wit hesses had been found and interviewed by Pinkerton detectives