Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-26
THE COUNTER CONSPIRACY.
will Undertake to Show There
Was One to Destroy Western
Federation OF Miners.
Haywood Is Very Alcrt--Richardson
says He VIII Send Witnesses Home
And Take Chances with Court.

Boise Idaho, June 26.--rhe defense in
the Steunenberg case continues to offer
evidence that Harry Orchard threat
ened to kill Steunenberg and that he
was also q participant In plot To de-
stroy the Western Federation of Min
ers its first witness this morning was
Mrs Lottie Day of Denver. who swore
that orchard had told her that but for
Steunenbere he would be million-
alre and that he intended to kill him,
John u. Elliott. an old soldier, next
testified that he met Harry Orchard on
q railway train in November, 1905. and
that Orchard told him that he was an
agent of the Mine owners association
and that there would soon be pulled off
a plot thai would destroy the leaders
OF the minors federation Both Mrs.
Day ana Elliott were submitted To a
long and searching cross-eNaminatton.
THE COUNTER CONSPIRACY,
While the foundation for proof of n
conspiracy on the part OF the mine own
ers to eNtermtnate the federation and
thus eliminate AN element that inter-
fered with their working of the mines
uliutE NpllllllOil SuCu as tilt tilllis OWL
ers should dictate, makes large part
of the fabric the defense has built up so
far Orchard is never LOST sight Of and
witness after witness is called to show
that orchard through all the years that
interviewed between his flight from Ida
ho In 1888 and his return To this place in
1905, carried with him continually and
expressed "a private grudge against
Steunenberg. II a sufficient weight Of
evidence can be brought TO show that
the assassination of the former COVER
nor was merely the elimination of one
mans grudge and not a part Of a con-
splracy. counsel for the defense say that
The states cass must fan 10 the ground.
orchard will stand convicted out of his
own mouth of this one murder and II q
conspiracy on the part OF the detectives
employed by the mine owners to destroy
property on cause riot in order To con-
1iriue a state OF martial law can be
shown il is the opinion of counsel that
the jury win abandon the conspiracy
idea altogether and their clients Will go
free.
TO BREAK DOWN ORCHARD
While the defense is trying TO
break down Orchard by sheer weight
Of testimony the state is pushing each
witness as far as possible 10 show that
they are subject TO impeachment lat
er The large number OF witnesses
10 be examined by the defense gives
promise Of long period of rebuttal
testimony
Orchard has been pinned down to q
denial OF a number of conversations
and already the work Of impeachment
Is We'll under way. Half dozen wit
ncsses have natlv contradicted por-
tons Of Orchards story or Insisted
that the conversations he denies did
in fact take place Some of these
Witnesses ware identified by Orchard
in open court and 10 their faces he
denied that he had ever said that he
desired to kill Steunenberg because
Of the governors interference with
his money making in the Occur
d'Alenes
HAYWOOD VERY ALERT
Haywood, since the op,t ing OF the
side for the defense has been par
ticularly alert. He sits among his
counsel now and confers continually.
HI watches each witness carefully
and takes copious notes as the evil
dence Is given II is quite evident
too that counsel for the defense pay
much attention to the suggestions
made by Haywood who II is stated by
members of his counsel win take up
M study of law should he he ac-
Quilted They say that he shows re-
markablc legal acumcn and has
very considerable knowledge Of the
law
NEW ATTORNEY IN CASE
\ new attorney appeared AT the de-
fendants counsel-tubc when the
Haywood trial was resumed this
morning making th. tenth ~ the
long list of attorneys engaged In be-
half OF the accused miners, Tho now
conner Is Walter Il Mccormick Of
Chicago Mr. Mccormick has been
IN h. 4lilanGsl
for the defense In Colorado and has
been IN Boise only since the defense
opened its case,
MRS, LOTrIE DAY,
The first witness Of the day was
Mrs. LottIe Day, who knew Harry
orchard at the Belmont rooming house
IN Denver under the name OF j. Demp-
sey, Mrs, Day said she met Orchard
lust prior 10 the convention of West
ern Federation Of Miners In 1904 once
whilc she was talking 10 orchard. HAY
wood ana a man named McDonaId'
who was also connected with the fed
Grafton, came in orchard introduced
hcr to Haywood and then Went away
with him. MIS- Day said she was
first summoned 10 Boise by the state,
but was sent back to Denver two Meeks
ago. The witness related CONVEX
sation with orchard when the latter
told ntr lnht poverty ldh SUM- HN''t
him from the one woman he loved and
that Steunenbsrg was responsible for
his being poor and h. would get even
With him II n was the last act of ms
life.
Didn't he say that Steunen'
herg2'" asked Mr. barrow
"No. sir, I'm sure ne didn't swear
like that l think he said 'thpt devll
Of Steunenherg.
Mrs. Day said that one day When
Orchard was telling her about his gam =
bling exploits he said he always Kept
n little money put away. that when "e
made a raise he put some money away
with Pettbone and drew II out as he
needed IT.
On cross-eYanlnailon MIS-, Day said
she now conducted a rOoming house III
Cripple Crock, but lived most OF the
time IN Denver,
INTRODUCED TO ORCHARD.
sho was introduced 10 Orchard by
Petiibone. who she had known for TWO
years priur TO 1904. She knew MN
quite well and he often visited her
Mrs. Day said she did not know or
chard under any other name tnan