The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-19
PROSECUTIONS I
DAY IN The HAY |
WOOD CASE
IMPORTANT LETTERS ADMITTEDa
IN EVIDENCE OVER DE-
FENsES OBJECTIONS.
EpIsTLEs WERE FALSELY DATED
Defense Tries to Show Orchard
Killed Steunenberg for His Loss
of Interest In Hercules Mine.
1Ry Associated Press1

BOISE, June 1S.-The prosecu-
tion in the Steunenberg murder
trial offered one of Its most import
ant pieces of evidence against Will
liam ID. Haywood today, when re-
calling Harry Orchard for redirect
examination, 1t introduced and Sc
cured the admission of four letters
tending to show that Haywood. dur
ing the fall of 1905, when Orchard
swears he was engaged in various
crimes for the federation leaders,
had participated in plan to deceive
Mrs. Orchard the second of Cripple
Creek as to the Whereabouts of her
husband
Over variety of protests from the
defense Orchard was allowed to tes-
tify that early In the summer OF
1906 Haywood told him that Mrs,
Orchard was writing him for infor-
nation as to Orchards whereabouts.
Orchard swore that he proposed that
he should write his wife series
of letters that were to be falsely
dated and delivered to Mrs, Orchard
by agents of the federation.
He said that he first wrote two
letters which he dated at San Fran
cisco and had them delivered through
Paddy Mulliney, who represented
the federation at Cripple Creek.
Orchard identified the two letters
and oyerruling all objections of the
defense Judge Wood admitted them.
Next Orchard swore that he wrote
third letter purporting to come
from Nome, Alaska, and that under
the general arrangements he had
made with the federation officials.
pnrpfnd thn 1attpr tn Nome
where he went as organizer of the
| federation and posted it. This letter,
bearing the date of Nome, August 5,
| 1905. was produced, Identified and
admitted In evidence.
Orchard then identified lette
which Haywood wrote to Mrs. Or
chard and that, too, was admitted in
evidence and handed to the jury. II
was as follows; -
"Denyer, Nov. Is, 1906
MRS. II. Orchard: Dear Madam
and Sister, have not heard word
since | saw you. The last informa-
| tion | got was from Alaska. | think
Fairfield was the name of the place.
see that awful conditions prevail
among 4he law an dorder element
yours very truly,
"William ID. Haywood.
The three letters written by Or
chard were commonplace and con-
tanned practically nothing bearing on
the case or Orchards testimony eX-e
eept references to the arrangement
which Orchard says he made with
the federation officials for the care
of his wife while he was absent.
The defense attacked the letters
and Orchards story about them
oh Tn
inc the qvitness, but Orchard held ts
the story he told about them. The
witness suscessively denied that he
had made an arrangement for the
delivery of bae letters to Pinkerton
agents; that the letters had only
made their appearance since he left
the stand last week or that he had
invented the story because his wife
| had Haywood's letter in her posse
sion. He swore positively that Hay
wood had agreed to write the Alaska
letter and that Pettibone and Moyer
knew of the arrangement
It was a day of correspondence
and documentary evidence. Besides
the four San Francisco-Alaska let
ters the state secured the admission
of certified copy of the unsigned
letter which Orchard got at Caldwell
| iail and which Orchard swears was
! i'm the handwriting of Pettibone. The
letter was as follows:
December 80.
"Friend Tom--Your letter re-
cefved. That was sent to Jack De-
cember 21st for yon. lie should
send it so that You ought to have it
by this time Will not write any
more this time. Write me as soon
as you get to your new field.
The letter was postmarked at
Denver ON December 30th, the day
that Steunenberg was killed, and it
is claimed by the state that the
Jack" mentioned was Simpkins and
that the word that" referred to
800 which Orchard s9ore he asked
Simpkins to secure for him when he
was leaving Caldwell.
The state developed its contention
that as tending to show a conspiracy
and knowledge of the Steunenberg
crime, Orchard was, without any re-
quest from him, furnished with coun-
sci within a few days after his ar
rest 1t first showed that Orchard,
after his arrest, sent no communica-
tion from the Caldwell Jail and then
| produced and secured tn !, admission
of the original of the following tele-
gram:
Receivers number. phone. time
| filed, 1880 p. M, paid, charge Rob-
ertson, Miller & Rosenfedt, Spo-
kane Wn., Jan. 3, 1906.
ITO T. Hogan. care Sheriff, Cald-
well, Idaho.
Attorney Fred Miller will start
for Caldwell in the morning. M. SO,
Hyde Block"
The defense examined Orchard on
this subject and largely devoted
itself to showing that the Western
Federation of Miners always provide
counsel for it's members wherever
and whenever they got into trouble.
To combat the theory that Orchard
killed Steunenberg in revenge for his
loss of valuable interest in the Her.
cules mine the state on redirect ex-