Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-08
MURDERS
Haywood Defense Shows Or
 chard a Crime Fiend.
OWNS TO BlCAIY, ARSON AND THEFT

WIND " uludMl, hhoVN huU luEt Boise Star Witness Confessed Hs
 Gave Many tho Double Cross-was
 Gambler as We'll as Bomb
 Maker and Assassin.
 BOISE, Ida, June S.-Harry Orchard who has confessed on the witness stand to having committed eighteen murders, including the blowing up of ex-Governor Steunenberg, as the paid tool of the timer circle" of the West. l ern Federation of Miners, was recalled for cross examination in the trial of William D. Haywood, charged with in- stigating the Steunenberg assassina- tion. Orchard had directly accused Haywood of sending him, Steve Ad- ans and others to "get' Steunenberg. The others dropped out of the plot, he said, and he alone planted the bomb which went of when the former gov ernor opened the gate of his home in Caldwell and blew him to bits.
 MT. Richardson, for the defense, brought out in cross examination the I facts that Orchard had set fire to a cheese factory in Canada. run off with another mans wife and had done other reprehensible deeds before com ing to Idaho.
 Orchard admitted that while he was in the Idaho mining country he be- canie quite gambler. playing poker most of the time. He was asked how he voted the day the unions decided to go down to Wardner and blow the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine mills and said he did not remember. MT. Richardson wanted the witness to name all who attended the meeting. He gave the names of five or six. And those are all you rememberT asked MT. Richardson. | Not all remember, but they are the only ones whose names I can re- call at this time," replied the witness coolly.
 Orchard after admitting that he went to Denver in the pay of the rail- road detectives stated that he threw them down, ceased to report to the de- tectives and took up the work of the Western Federation of Miners, who paid him all he needed.
 On leaving Denver, Haywood told him. he said, to go back to Cripple Creek and "klll some of them sol. diers."
 Orchard identified Owney Barnes, who was called to the stand from the audience. Orchard said he manufac- tured bombs with Barnes at Barnes cabin at Cripple Creek. The bombs were to be used at the yindicator mine.
 He calmly admitted planning the blowing up of fifty nonunion men in the vindicator mine.
 Attorney Richardson sought to show that Orchard had suggested blowing up the vindicator, but be swore that a man named Davis first suggested the act.
 !. Orchard was unmasked as a detec- tive of the mine owners secret service in Colorado in 1908.
 Orchard said that prior to his mar riage in Colorado he lived at Johnny Neville's house at Cripple Creek. He admitted taking some high grade ore from roommate's trunk and selling 1t for $10. The roommate, John Thompson, had Thigh graded" the ore.
 Mir. Richardson wanted to know the names of all who helped unload the powder at wardner and who helped to place 1t under the mill.
 Orchard gave several and said they were all he could remember.
 Did you know Haywood, Mover or Pettibone at this timeT
 No, sir"
 "They were not with you at wardner when the mill was blown up, were theyr'
 \ No, sir. Not that know of"
 Orchard said be left Idaho after the blowing up of the Bunker Hill and Sul- livan mills to avoid arrest. He was taken over the years from 1899 to 1902 in detail, explaining to Mir. Richardson where he worked. where be got his money and where he went from time to time. Orchard said he worked on an average of ten or eleven months a year in the minos of Utah, Nevada and Ari- xona. He gambled part of the time.
 A San Francisco dispatch Says:
 Erred ". Bradley. former manager of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines in the Occur dAlenes. said that Harry Orchards testimony at Boise quite fits in with his experience.
 "The attempt to poison me v'th strychnine in the milk" he said. twas mainly frustrated by my habit of early rising. my custom being to breakfast before any one else In the house. On this morning I found a bitter taste in the milk. spat 1t out and had the rest put out of the way. Several innocent lives were thus saved. This milk had only been delivered a few minutes be- fore my tasting it-v Bradley. continuing. related that he was so terribly injured by the explo- sion spoken of by Orchard that be was unable to clearly follow the ae- counts of the outrage. He referred to the allegation that the explosion which wrecked his home and himself was caused by an escape of gas in the front ball which was ignited by . match struck to light his cigar.
 The witness had a long and trying ordeal. but up to adjournment success- fully withstood the desperate attack of the defense.
 Was One of Orchards wives-