CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-20

/ Yes, sir" ra
"And would do it quickly?"
II believed they would put me out
OF the way"
But somewhere along the line the
thought came to you that you could
get ont of it by laying 1t onto some
body else?"
"No. sir: that was not. the thought
at ALL" ... -.
II thought" he said, "of putting my
self out OF the way, but thought over
my past life. / did not believe in a
hereafter at all, but l was afraid to
die and ! thought at times that had
been such an unnatural monster-my
crimes had been SO great that would
not be forgiven" ...-. ...
who told you that?"
mo one.".
who wrote that out for you?"
mo one. but after had been sent a
Bible and had read it some. came to
the conclusion that would be forgiven
II l made a confession of everything.
/ began to think that the grave did not
end everything and made up my mind
to tell the truth about the whole thing"
| so you thought you would make
your peace with the future by having
somebody else hung, did you?" asked
Mr.. Richardson.
NO sir; think any man can make
his peace with the future il he wants
to. l believed 1t was my duty to tell
the truth. / did not see any other way
regardless OF the consequences to my
, self or anybody else. l owed it to So
ciety. country, God and myself"
The defense suggested that IL Orch
ard did not get the reference to his
duty to society, God and himself direct
| from Mcfarland or any other person
1t was suggested to him by the oath
he took when he Joined the Western
Federation OF Miners. The read him
the oath from the ritual, but when
they did that he expressed the belief
that the language had been given to
him by the Almighty.
Four hours the defense hammered
away on the motive of saving his own
life. They sought to show II III the
force of example drawn from the i'm
munity of the informers in the Molly
+ Mcguire cases, but this the witness
would not admit Next they sought for
1t in Orchards effort to bring Steve
Adams TO the state and then in the
Subsequent meetings with Mcfarland
and Governor Gooding. Once again
they emphasized the I 1T the wit
ness had twice written his testimony
out, but Orchard repellei the sugges-
ton that 1t had been changed by Nc
Parland. Attorney Hawley. or anybody
else.
har n
Orchard had placed his future in the
keeping of Mcfarland: that the Pink
= ertons had sent money to his family in
Canada; that he had been supplied
with dates to strengthen his story and
that Mcfarland had trained, him as a
stage manager would for his appear
ance on the stand. bu: all this Orchard
denied. Then they tried to show him
a pampered, petted. hero-like prisoner,
fed from the table OF the warden. ad-
dressed as Harry" by Governor Good
ing and Warden Whitney, given free
dom and liberties that no other pris-
oner ever had in the world. and all this
consideration implying directly that he
would never be killed for killing S,eun-
enberg.
Orchard left the stand at 2:30 O'Clock
after having occupied for n total of
thirty-two and QUE half hours. Just
before he was excused and remanded
he went back to the hands OF the prose-
cution and identified the casing OF the
bomb he planted at the cote OF Judge
Goddard's house In Denver. Orchard
H. to return to the witness chair later
because the defense must lay the for
Rnr oh tu0 tho
state must still have its redirect ex-
animation.
Immediately after Orchard left the
stand. the state 'begen the corrobora-
tion OF the Bradley poisoning story.
Mrs. Sadie Swan, who was Miss Sadie
Bell. was a maid In the Bradley home.
Oliver Crook. the milkman who sold
the milk that was poisoned. and P. c.
McCreAry, the chemist who analysed
the poisoned milk, carried the revolt
ing tale from the discovery. because Of
its bitterness, that the milk was pois-
oned to the analysis that showed from
forty to sixty grains OF strychnine in q
quart OF 1t. Mrs. Swan identified
Orchard and connected him with the
house. confirming the date as within
three or four days OF the explosion.
and Mrs. Swan swore that she opened
the front door to get the morning pa
per a few minutes before the explosion
and saw nothing on the steps. There
will be further testimony as to the
Bradley incident today.
Boise. Idaho, June 15.-Ths seats
outside the bar were not more than
half filled when court opened this
morning at 8 O'Clock. ]. T. Pender,