CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-20
STATE IS CORROBORATINc
ORCHARDS TESTIMONY
The Blood curdnK Story Of Murderer Harry Orchard Being Vr
BY the Testimony Many Witnesses

bOlb0, 1UAuOs Juu0 ~ uo pTObCCu-
ton in the Steunenberg murder trial
yesterday, entering in earnest upon
the substantiation and corroboration Of
Harry Orchards testimony, showed a
continuous thread Of evidence connect
ing George Petitioners store In Denver
with Orchard at San Francisco engaged
In the Bradley murder plot, partly de-
veloped another direct line by which 1t
II hoped to show that Haywood en-
gagged and paid Steve Adams for the
same desperate work, and added sew
eral touches Of confirmation to Orch
ards general story.
Ofncials Of the United States postof-
nces at San Francisco and Denver pro-
duced original records showing that In
August. 1904. a registered letter was
sent under the name Of y. Wolff" from
the address of Pettibone's store in
Denver, to ~. Dempsey" at the Golden
West hotel In San Francisco. Orchard
swore that he stayed at the Golden
West under an alias that was either
Dempsey or Hogan" that Pettibone
used the aliases OF "Woln" and Pat
Bone" and that under the name Of
"Wolf' Pettibone in the month men
toned sent him registered letter con-
tanning 500 to pay his expenses while
engaged In the Bradley murder.
Police ofiicials OF Ogden established
the arrest there in June, 1903. OF Steve
Adams and A. T. Williams. They were
sealed up In an east bound car loaded
with fruit. and when arrested for tres
pass each had a brace OF revolvers.
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. detective. who was a brother Mason
OF Adams. they went straight to the
once Of the Western Union and sent q
telegram to Haywood at Denver.
The defense headed on an attempt
to get the contents OF the telegram be-
fore the jury. but the state indicated
that II would return to the charge later
and further develop the incident. The
state through an onicial Of the West
ern Union. produced the original of a
telegram supposed to have been sent
to Attorney Fred Miller OF Spokane
and now recorded as one OF Haywood's
counsel to Harry Orchard before the
latter was arrested At Caldwell for the
8tsunenberR murder. but did not in
troduce II because its Identification 10
Inc btAtS AiBO
IN order directing the Western Tn
TO produce its records showing Il
Haywood sent money to Adams at
Ogden
When the Ogden testimony was In
troduced Steve Adams Was brouGhf In
70 court under guard To be Identified.
Adams' name has run all through the
trial but this was his FIRST appearance
In peroon. Adams seemed In a defiant
humor and walked to a point directly
In front Of the Jury and Eazed steadily
at the witneos confronting him.
Besides It's work on the Pettibone-
Orchard -Haywood-Ad lines the
state produced several Witnesses who
coafrmed features OF Orchards story
n I'd the Bradley affair. the hrxt de-
scent into the vindicator mine with
the object Of doing violence. the nnal
success OF the vindicator plot, and the
circumstances under which Detective
Yyte Gregory was killed. Aside from
its nght agaist the admission OF all
the evidence offered by the state on the
general ground that II was In no way
state produced several Witnesses Hho
connected with the accused. the de-
fenSe contented itself with showing
that all OF the witnesses had been To-
Gated and interviewed by PInkerton de-
tectives and that they had been given
advances OF expense money through
Pinkerton agencies.
Boise. Idaho. June Ill. B. Cub
binni. the San Frsncisco groceryman,