Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-07
WAS A BAD EGG
Orchard, Confessed Murderer Began Wild Career By Leav-
 ing Wife and Child
CORRECTS TESTIMONY

made by him yesterday. He said he neglected to give the name of his sick sister which was Minnie Horsley. He also had stated that he had no partner in the wood business in Burke, Idaho, but he recollected now that he owed two men money and he promised them an interest in the business. MT Richardson began his cross-examination by rapid fire of questions under which Orchard never once quailed. He admitted that he had been gambler and invariably lost. He stated that Bill Easterly was one of those who had discussed with him the method of blowing up the Vindicator mine. Easterly was in the audience listening to the story and Orchard pointed him out.
 Yhe prisoner witness shows no sign of fatigue. When turned over to the defense, he appeared to rally. He acted as though relieved from the strain and having once told the pub lie of the murder of Steunenberg seemed to welcome change. His an- swers to Richardson's questions were delivered without hesitation. He is quick witted and self possessed and appears not to feel the atmosphere of adherence with which he is sur. rounded. The cross examination is developing into battle of wits be- tween Richardson and Orchard.
 According to those who know the facts of his early life, Orchard is not naturalized citizen of this country. His parents, of course, were Canad- fans, the father of English and the mother of Irish descent. Orchar1 himself had but little education. He attended the country school in Can ada but passed through only few of 1.-the lower grades. He is the second child of seven. All his brothers and sisters are living. When still boy he hired out and worked for the neigh bors and according to his own state, ment on the stand he was over 20 years old when he left home and went to Saginaw, Mich. In the course of Orchards examination Richardson asked questions to prove that Or chard began a career of dissipation early in life. The man himself says | that 1t was only after several years of hard work that he began to drink and gamble. At that time he was building up a good business in the making of cheese, but it is now twelve years only since the turning point. The woman at the bottom of 1t all is the wife of the man with whom he boarded while working at the new cheese factory at his old home in Northumberland county, Canada. In- fatuated he ran away with the wo- man, changed his name and after wards ashamed to return to his wife and child, drifted into the life of crime that gradually led to taking up killing as a trade by which he could earn easy money and avoid hard man. ual labor.
 1 Orchard is a man without nerves, so far as the closest observer can dis cover. At times while relating the most frightful of the crimes of which he accuses himself, his voice changes and lowers. But during the eight hours he has been on the stand, un- der fire of continual questioning. the mans manner has altered little and except for the first furry of nervous. ness when he walked into the court room and faced the crowd of curious faces, after sixteen months of close incarceration he has shown no sign that he realized he was dictating his record as the worst criminal of the century.
 That the cross examination of Or chard will be severe in the extreme, was evidenced by the first half hour. Counsel for the defense says that they will be able to tear down com pletely the story he has told in the direct examination. They have called about 150 witnesses and the majority of these are here, they say, to dis prove what Orchard has told. In the story of direct examination Orchard was not sparing in mentioning names of people and addresses. Counsel for Haywood will claim they will be able to prove by testimony of these people that what Orchard has stated is un- true.
 It is even claimed that they wilh or can produce people who will say that they themselves committed mur- ders Of which Orchard accuses him. self.
 Haywood. the man whom Orchard pictures as the areh-conspirator shows little concern. He even laughs outright when asked what he thinks of the testimony. He asserts positive ly that the connection of his name with the murders Is a falsincation and that Orchard has connected him with the crimes partly out Of spite and partly ct the suggestion Of de- tectives and enemies of the Western Federation of Miners. It Is not known yet If Haywood will go on the stand in his own defense. His counsel say they do not know that this will be necessary as they have so much with which to contradict Orchard
 Clarence Darrow. who undoubtedly Is closer to the prisoner than any ofh- CT of the members of his counsel and who spends much of his time when out of the courtroom with Haywood. in his cell. says that it may be neces- ary to put Haywood on the stand. but that it wiIl be some time before they finally decide on this-
 Mr Dsrrow expects the case to last until August 1. but the general opin- ion of counsel is that it should be con- cluded within Ave weeks from now.
 Orchards statement published in the Boise newzpapers has created a profound sensation Some of the de- tails had besn putllshef. bat the im-