Omaha daily bee., 1907-06-07
OF AGAINST sTEUNENBERa
He Says Assassination Was First Sug-
gested by Haywood,
LONG HUNT FOR THE VICTIM
Dramatic Story of How Death Trap
Was Fixed.
CRoss-ExAMINATION UNDER WAY
Witness Admits lie f. a Bigamlsts
that He Deserted Family In
Canada and Committed
other Crimes.


other Crimes.
! BOISE, Idaho, June 6.-Harry Orchard
crowned his admissions of grave crimes to-
day when, continuing his case against Will
| liam d. Haywood. he made an explicitly
detailed confession of the murder Of Frank
Steunenberg by an Internal machine that
directly opens the way for his own con-
viction and execution for the mortal Of
/ fense. He swore that the assassination OF
steunenberg was first suggested by Hay
wood. was Jointly plotted by Haywood
Meyer, Pettibone and himself, was financed
by Haywood and was executed by himself
after the failure of an attempt in which
Jack Simpkins had participated.
Orchard lifted the total of his own muir
dered victims to eighteen, detailed the cir
cumstances under which he tried to muir
der former Governor Peabody, Judge God
dard, Judge Gabbert, General Sherman Bell
Dave Moffatt and Frank Hearno. Incl
dentally he confessed to plan to kidnap
the child of one Of his former assistants.
Then, under cross-examination by the de-
fense. Orchard confessed guilt of the sordid
social crimes OF deserving his young child
| and wife in Ontario fleeing 10 British
Columbia with Hattie Simpson, the wife Of
another man, and committing bigamy by
marrying third woman at Cripple Creek
through the shocking details of murder
plots stories OF secret bomb making and
tales OF man hunts with sawed-off shotguns
and internal machines as weapons, the wit
ness went on In the same quiet, onhand
manner that marked his demeanor yester-
day. His voice dropped to lower keys as
the pitiful story of the long hunt for
Steunenberg narrowed down to the last
day and he told of the race from the hotel
to the home of his victim with the death
trap and the meeting IN the evening gloom
as the victim walked unconsciously to his
doom. Through it all he WINGED but once
and that was when the defense made him
name his six sisters and his one brother
and give their residences in Ontario and
New York.
Objections By Defense.
The defense fought the story with
multiplicity of objections and succeeded In
heading off an attempt OF telling the story
Of the murder of Arthur Collins at Tellu-
ride and temporarily shutting out the con-
tents OF a telegram received and a tele-
gram sent by Orchard after his arrest. But
for the rest the state managed to get in
its story intact.
The state today began its corroboration
Of Orchards crimson tale by producing the
lead casing OF the Peabody bomb. Orchard
identified It, swore that he brought II from
Canyon City to Denver and then on to
Wallace where he gave 1t to man
named Cunningham. It was thrown into the
river and the state promises to later prove
Its recovery.
Haywood and his kinfolk listened quietly
to the long recital and about their first
show of feeling was one of amusement
when Attorney Richardson began his on
slauEht and brought out Orchards domes-
tic crimes.
There were the same precautions and
the same armed guards to protect Orchard
and the same court room scenes except
that among the spectators the women TO
men were as two TO one There was an
other rush for admittance and the doors
of the court had to be closed at both ses-
sions.
Orchard finished his direct examination
at 2:s6 O'Clock and the cross-examination
had only reached down to the Couer
d'Alene days of 1899. when the court rose
/ The cross-examination will be continued
at o'clock tomorrow
Trial Is Resumed.
The trial was resumed at o'clock.
Orchard began his todays testimony by
, giving the names Of several persons he met
, in San Francisco when he went there to
assassinate Fred Bradley. who had been
formerly the manager of the Bunker Hin
and Sullivan mine in the Couer d'AIene
J district Of Idaho. These names were re-
! lated in order TO pave the way for pos
4 sible corroboration of Orchards testimony
at this point.
D Orchard said he was known a part OF the
? time he was in San Francisco by the name
{ OF Barry. Leaving California. Orchard re-
turned to Denver, wearing the uniform OF q
: soldier. He said he Immediately called Pet
. tlbone on the telephone.
''Pettibone asked me how Bradley was"
3 continued Orchard. Il told him Bradley
was Kin alive when loft San francisco.
buS a was reported ne would lose his eye
al AZ and probably be deaf for the reSt
,"Nis lifs Pettibone said that was better
Z rem II / had killed him outright-that
fefadley would now be living example"
\ r Orchard said ne asked for money and
y received 3126 from Pettibone, with the
! assurance that he could get more when
= he wanted Il. Orchard said Haywood next
asked him ito go TO work on Judge Cab
bert" of the supreme court OF Colorado.
Lay I'm Wait for Judge.
He said Judge Gabbert." Orchard went
on, had been rendering decisions against
Meyer, who We were trying to get out
OF Telluride on habeas corpus. went 70
Judge Gabberts house the following Sum
day night with Steve Adams and a shot
. gun, but we did not see the judge. Hay
: wood also wanted us 10 try again at Gov
b ernor Peabody saying he didn't care
. how we got rid OF him. At this time Il
e seemed Peabody was about TO be elected
q for another term. Steve Adams. Billy
Ackerman and set to work and made a
| bomb We put Il under the sidewalk al
Thirteenth street and Grant avenue ia
Denver. The governor walked along here
q every morning
Adams and watched for the governor
until he came out. Just as the governor
walked over the place where the bomt
was. two heavy coal wagons came out Of
= the alley and passed over the wire lead.