The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-10
Haywood Defense Will Complete
Its Direct Testimony
Probably by the Close of the
Current Week.
MORE THREATS SHOWN
Further Testimony Regarding
the Feeling of Orchard
Toward Former Governor
Steunenberg CT Idaho.

Boise. Idaho, July 1O.-with the ex-
ception of Charles H. Meyer. the presi-
dent and William D. Haywood. the
secretary and treasurer of the Western
Federation of Miners, the defense in
the Steunenberg murder trial will today
close its case indirect.
1t is probable that the rest of the
week will be taken up with the exami-
nation of Meyer and Haywood. The
former goes on the stand today.
Allen F. Gill of Spokane. Wash, for
mer city engineer Of Spokane and once
master mechanic of the Tiger and Poor
man mine in the Occur d'Alene district
of Idaho. was called during an inter
mission by the reading of dispositions
yesterday. Gill said that in March
1899 Orchard had offered to sell to Gill
his interest in the Hercules mine The
witness met Orchard and Jack Simp-
kins in Spokane in 1905. and talked
with them on the street about the Her
cules mine.
Il told Orchard that my wife and
myself felt unfortunate that he had
never come around to close up that
deal" said the witness. Orchard replied
that he was hard up at the time ne OF
fered his interest for sale, but that he
afterward sold out his wood business
and had gone to work in the mines
He said that he ought to have his pock-
cts bullying with money and would have
had it and would have been able to
erect blocks of buildings as his part
ners were doing if that - Steunen-
berg had not driven him out of the
country. He also spoke of Gardiner,
the man to whom he sold his interest in
the mine, and said: '=- Dago was
having good time spending the money
that ought to be his.
SimpkIns Was There.
Cross-examined by Borah, Gill said
Simpkins was a party to this interview;
he knew both Orchard and Simpkins.
quite well. This ended the taking of
testimony for the day and Attorney
Darrow went to work once more on the
San Francisco dispositions.
One of the most important deposit
tions read during the afternoon was
that of Peter w. Doyle. a foreman OF
carpenters, who had charge of the re-
pairs following the explosion. He de-
c1ared that not the slightest trace OF
lead was found anywhere in the wood
work or debris. Asked his opinion as to
where the force came from which
caused the damage, he declared it seem
ed to come from the direction of the
Cummings apaT tment where the gas
pipes ran up the east wall.
The reading of dispositions was again
interrupted to permit the calling OF
Mrs. Allen F. Gill. wife of a preceding
witness She said she knew Orchard
when he was in the wood business at
Burke. Orchard offered to sell his in
terest in the Hercules mine to her, she
testified, in February, 1899. She con-
suited her husband about the matter
and he decided to make the purchase
Orchard did not return. however. and
she did not see him again until the
following March.
Leak in the Meter.
The deposition of c. A. Craemer, the
contractor who repaired the Linforth
fats after the explosion. was read
next. He gave an extended descrlp-
-Iion of the building and the damage
caused by the explosion. His descrip-
lions indicated that the explosion was
caused by gas. but on cross exam1na-
ton he said he could not tell whether
gas or dynamite damaged the build
ing.
plumber, told of the discovery of gas
leaks at the Linforth flats and the eff
forts to locate them before the explo-
sion. Lewis testified that he found
leak in a gas meter. and the meter was
replaced by the gas company
F. A. Gilley. who had charge OF the
plumbing in the Linforth flats. con-
tributed the next deposition that was
read. He described the discovery of
the leaking meter, and told OF its re-
moval.
A. Abernathy, a contractor, who testl-
fed that he met Harry Orchard at san
Francisco in November, 1904. Or
chard had been brought to the wit
ness as a man with a silver-lead prop
ertv in Idaho. so the witness said.
not been for Steunenberg, whom he
called a vile name. he would have
heen n rich man. and that he intended
TO fix Steunenberg. Orchard onered
to look up the silver-lead property in
Idaho for 500. -
$40 this morning.