The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-07-27
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ATTORNEY RICHARDSON sAva "
is ALL eoSH-
SAYS ORCHARDS STORY FAKE
"ccicraoo Sends Ocean Of Dirty Linen
to Boise for Jury
10 WASH"

declared Bradley got what WAS com
ing to him and there's a chap named
Stsunenberg who is going TO get his,
Tracing Orchard back TO Denver,
where he made the second attempt IN
the lif. Of Governor Peabody, Richard
son declared that absolutely no corroo-
Grafton had been offered TO Orchard 3
story q setting the bomb under ths
sidewalk and its failure to explode b.
cause of a coal cart driving across the
wire The attorney also declared that
no sufficient explanation had been Of
fered az to why Orchard abandoned
the attempts TO Kill Governor Peabody.
Judges Goddard and Gabbert, Sherman
Bell and Hearne
DO you suppose. gentlemen OF the
jury" asked Richardson. that If a
murderous inner circle of the Wes'
ern Federation OF Miners had marked
these me n for death and had hired as
sassins to do their work, they would
have been so easily deferred from car
rying out their designs?
When YOU consider the testimony
in th,3 case think you will reach with
me tho conclusion that this man Or
chard was possessed of mania to 90
out and Kill. Sometimes his lust was
greater than at others and so IL was
lIIdl SONIC tl1!ltS ne was StlpuE III MS
purpose and sometimes wayered. His
testimony shows a desultOry. maniacal
method OF pursuing the victims Sc
lected for death for some fancied
grievance against himself or perhaps
the organization to which he belonged.
Orchard s is the most absurd story on
the face of the earth. He says ther"
was never any fixed amount to be pal
him for given crimes-he was always
told not to take too much, as he could
get more whenever he wanted it.
In the light of this testimony what
becomes Of Hawleys opening state
ment 10 you that the Western Fedora
tion of Miners had scale Of prices for
crime. so much being fixed for the
murder OF governor. so much for 4
judge and so much for a common la,
borer?"
Richardson called attention TO the
meagerness Of Governor Peabody's tes-
timony when he appeared as ID witness
and exclaimed
VIII YOU men of the jury put a hal
ter around the neck of this man on
such testimony as this and send him 10
his death at the behest OF the Mine
OwneIs' Association and It's represent
atives? II will be long time before
the law will sanction conviction on
any such evidence as has been here ad
duced"
Richardson ridiculed Orchards story
as 10 being ordered TO get David II.
MofaJ. president of the First National
Bank o. Denver. He declared that
Haywood deposited all the funds of the
federation in this bank. and was 4
cons.an visitor there.
Think OF that men. and yet this
with rho SIip1a ~ hi
past crimes, comes here and would
have you believe that Haywood was
planning to murder the man TO whom
be was entTusting the funds of the or
gantZation of which he was secretary
treasurcr-upon David II. Moffat, with
whom he was on terms of almost -nti-
mate friendship, Everything CON
nected with this matter gives the lie
to Orchards monstrous story
Richardson next pointed out how
easy ii would have been for Orchard to
have killed General Sherman Bell, had
it been desired, and declared that #
there vas any one man against whom
the federation might feel resentment it
was Sherman Bell who was in COM
mand Of the militia during the strike
period in Colorado But nothing was
done to Bell nothing was done 10
Bukeley Wells,
Orchards conduct at Caldwell be
fore the murder of Steunenberg said
Richardson. leads inevitably to the
conclusion that this man was deter
mined to draw the attention of the
whole population on himself
Whether he was in the employ of
the Pinkertons at the time or not does
not appear on the record, but think
| can show before this argument is
over, that both before and after the
murder, the purpose of Orchard and
others was to create evidence such as
might lead to the arrest and convic-
ton of the Western Federation of Min
ers officials"
After reading extracts from the
Denver newspapers printed at the time
of the arrest of Orchard. all of which
he said, showed the hand OF the Pink
arton detective agency in an endeavor
link the name of the Western Fed
sration of Miners with the murderer
Richardson said the governor of Idaho
and the Pinkerton agency knew when
steunenbery was murdered and Or
chard was arrested that he would
make the confession.
For years the Pinkerton Detective
agency had permeated the locals of the
Western Federation with secret oper
atives. but had never been able TO
'asten single crime upon the orea
ization-the only organization, said
Richardson, which ever had the power
and the courage to raise its hand
against the mine owners.
Taking up the life of Orchard in the
penitentiary at Boise. Richardson said
the vile. loathsome creature had been
petted and coddled. fed from the war
den's tables, visited by the governor
of the state and called in familiar
terms Harry" by the governor and
the counsel engaged for the prosecu-
ton.
Think of this creature associating