The Washington herald., 1907-06-06

Declares Secretary of Labor Organ
ization Connived at AssassipatiOns.
Wanted independence station
Blown I'D to Bring Convention to
End-Witness CooIIy Relates Series
of Horrors Such As Never Before
Told in Courtroom-PIOtted to
sIay Governor Peabody.
Boise Idaho. June 5-Harry Orchard
alias Hogan, Green. and Dempsey. who
admits he planted the bomb that killed
ex-Gov Steunenberg. Of Idaho. year ago
last November. and who says that Will
lam D. Haywood. Charles H Meyer and
George A. Peuibone. respectively, secre-
tary, president. and executive board men,
bers Of the Western Federation Of Miners.
planned the murder and hired him TO do
it, began this morning what is probably
the most extraordinary recital Of crime
ever made in a courtroom.
Orchard occupied the stand three hours
and a half, and before his story had been
in the course of telling for an hour it
was clear that if it can be corroborated
IN its essential features. the State will be
able to establish beyond a doubt the
charges Of conspiracy to do wholesale
murder upon the chief opponents Of the
methods of the Western Federation of
Miners.
Orchard first told the jury that he
touched off the fuse when the Bunker
Hin and Sullivan Mil was blown up
at Wardner in 1899. but his story did not
touch Haywood and his co-defendants
until it came to deal with the Cripple
Creek troubles, on and after 1893
Helped Blow Men 10 Death.
In Cripple Creek, he said. he planted
the powder and arranged the trap by
which Supt Mccormick and Foreman
Beck, Of the Indicator Mine. were blown
TO death, and was hired to do it by ". F.
Davis. president Of one Of the Cripple
Creek miners unions. Davis promised
him 500. and later on. in Denver, Hay
wood paid him $500 Meyer he said. paid
him smaller MS. Haywood. he sa 4.
told him that good job, and that
he was glad some Of the bosses
instead Of o. IinaTy scabs
Later on, orchard said he met Haywood
and Pettibone again an the Headquarters
of the Federation. and that they told him
that they wished he would work up some
scheme to assassinate Gov. Peabody.
They said tlfdt they could not get justice
in the courts that Moyer was being held
under martial law. and that the only way
TO get justice was to take the law into
their own hands.
They told me where the governor
lived, added the witness. "and told me 10
watch him and learn his habits and see
what the chances would be Of being able
10 assassinate him"
Orchard said Haywood got Steve Adams
10 help him, and the pair watched the
governors house and found out that he
often came home in the evening in a car
Tiage.
To Use SRwed-oG Shotguns.
PettibOne gave them some sswed-ch
shotguns and some shells loaded with
buckshot. This was early in the summer
OF 1904 Adams and Orchard hid across
the street from Gov Peabodys one night /
waiting for the governor to come home in
a carriage as usual They saw a carriage
coming. and as it stopped in front of the
governors house they ran up behind il
ready 10 shoot
Then, said Orchard. three women got
out. but the governor wasn't there. one
Of the women was the governors daugh-
ter. They next planned to kill the gov
ernor with a bomb, but, according to Or
chard. Haywood said they had better lie
loT for a while, as the executive board
OF the Federation was in session and they
might all get arrested. Thus Peabody
escaped.
The killing Of Lyte Gregory. who
worked for the Mine Owners Associa-
ton, was not detailed. Orchard said that
Pettibone put him UP TO that. saying that
Gregory had been active against the union
and that Il would he a good thing to make
an example Of him.
Orchard told how he and Adams
tracked Gregory from one saloon TO an
other in Denver in May, 1904. until they
met him face 70 face in the street.
He sort OF reached into his pocket as
If for gun" said Orchard "and I shot
him three times with a shotgun l got
s1o0 the next day, after I talked with
Haywood. Pettibone, and Jack Simpklns."
Thinks Gregory Died.
Did Gregory die?' asked Mr.. Hawley. |
"I believe he did" replied Orchard with
out a culver
The blowing up Of the station at Inde-
pendence. when fourteen non-union men
were killed was described in great detail |
by Orchard. He said that he and Adams |
did the job together. There was a con-
vention Of Western Federation Of Miners !
going on in Denver at that time. and |
there was so much fighting in the organ |
iZation that Orchard said Haywood told /
him he feared il would be broken I'D.
Haywood said" declared the witness. /
that If we pulled of something in the |
Cripple Creek district he believed the
convention would finish up its business
promptly and go home
Haywood. Pettibone. and Simpkins were /
all present when the Independence out
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