Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-06-19
STICKS TO HIS TESTIMONY
Harry Orchard, confessed Murderer,
Sticks Boldly to Ali His Statements
and Continues to Talk Cody of His
Horrible Crimes.

Boise, Idaho, special.-tn minute
detail Harry Orchard on cross-exam.
ination described the attempt he made
to poison "Fred" Bradley and lis
family in San Francisco. He told
how he got acquainted with the SER
wants in the house, took the cook to
a theatre and learned that Mr.. Brad
ley ate breakfast early in the morn
ing. He procured the strychnine and
lay on the a roof until he saw the
milkman deliver the milk en- the porch
and then deliberately put the contents
Of the small bottle he carried into the
milk.
Attorney Richardson made the most
of the attempted poisoning, plesum-
ably for the effect it would, have on
the jury. He spoke of the little baby
i'll the family, and the innocent wife
of how the witness took the cook to
the theatre and then tried to poison
her. Orchord remained unmoved. He
said he never gave the other members
of the family thought, and did not
care whether he killed them or not,
as he was there to kill Bradley and
had no instructions about the meth
DDS to be used.
The defense began by making it
clear that as far as Orchard knew,
Haywood, Meyer and Pettibohs had
nothing to do with the inspiration,
planning and execution Of the Vindi-
Gator explosion, and that Haywood
and Meyer had nothing to do with
the planning Of the murder of Datec-
tive Gregory.
Passing then to the dynamiting OF
the Independence station the, first
crime with which the testimony OF
Orchard directly connects Haywood,
Meyer and Pettibone,- they endeavor-
ed to show that Orchard in spring
ing the mine had purposely sought IL
spare the oncoming train and the1hon-
union men who were expected to en-
train, and that the whole plot was en-
ginecrcd by agents of mineewners and
railway managers, who wanted COM
paratively harmless "outrage to i'i-
jure the union miners who were On
strike"
Leaving the Independence station
crime, which was followed by the
fight Of Orchard into Wyoming and
then by his unexpected return to;Den-
YER, the defense sought to discredit
the story that Haywood directed Or
chard to kill Andy Mayberry by show
ing that Haywood and Mayberry were
old and intimate friends.
The readiness with which Orchard
answers questions himself continues
to puzzle the defense. He, told IF
burning the cheese factory in Canada
and collecting $500 insurance omit.
"Was that the first crime you
committed7" asked Richardson.
"It was the first crime ofssthatl
kind"
Well, I want to know what your
first crime was?"
SIT was in selling short-weight
cheese, if you consider that crime ("
"Well,do you consider it crime 2"
~ do now; yes, sir. 1t was such
dishonest methods that first started
me out in criminal career"
The witness went over the Inde-
pendence outrage again, and said that
the reason the powder was fired when
the train was some distance away was
because he did not want to kill The
trainmen. He said that Sherman
Parker told him not to injure the rail-
way employees, as the engineer had
proved a good witness for the de-
fense in the trainwrecking episode.
After fleeing from Colorado, after
the Independence explosion, the wit
ness stuck to his storytold on direct
examination, that Pat Moran,
saloonkeeper, that journeyed to Den
yer and carried back a letter from
Pettibone with $500 for him. He told
that he lost the money in gambling
house in Cody and borrowed $50 from
the keeper Of the place to take him
back to Denver.
As to the Independence Depot af-
fair Orchard said it was to blow Up
the depot before the arrival of the
train. This was arranged to save
the trainmen.
"And you didn't intend to blow UP
anybody, but just this depot, which
was simply stopping place without
an agent or anybody there9"
eyes, sir; we intended blowing up
the nonunion men who took the train
there"
"Why did you want to save the
trainmen9" asked Richardson, with
o significant infection.
"Sherman Parker said that one of
the men on the train had been a good
witness for him in the trials and he
did not want him hurt"
"But this was the same train you
felt sore about not being selected to
wreck?"
eyes, sir.''
Orchard denied that he had talked
to Railroad Detective ScottSabout the
plans to blow up the depot and save
the train. He also denied that it was
on Scott's account he agreed to save
the train.
"You cpected to kill so men that
night7"
"I didn't know how many"
"You thought the more the merriel,
didn't you?"
"I wasn't thinking about it,"
"You didn't care whether it was
ono or ono hundred did vor 2,'