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ness Moore Tells of Mailing Letter
for Orchard to Wife in Colorado.
Boise, Idaho, July 5.-When the
Haywood trial was resumed at 10 a.
m. today, the defense offered as its
first witness Marion w Moore of Nc,
Cabe, Ariz., a member of the execu.
tive board of the Western Federation
Of Miners.
Witness Killed at Denver.
AS Moore took the stand Attorney
Clarence Darrow announced that an.
other member of the executive board,
Frank Schneider, was killed in Den.
yer night before last while boarding
a train to come to Boise as a witness.
May Ask Days Delay.
Owing to this unfortunate circum.
Darrow said, the defense might
be compelled to ask a days delay a lit,
lie later on, as it would be necessary
10 secure from various sources the
testimony expected from Schneider.
That Letter from Alaska.
Moore was asked as to the circum.
under which he agreed to take
The letter to Alaska for Harry Orchard
and mail 1t from Nome to the second
Mrs. Orchard in Colorado. Moore said
he first met Orchard at Denver in May,
1904.
Met Him at Court House.
Il was sitting on a bench in the
courthouse square when he came up
and introduced himself, saying he had
seen me in the Couer d'Alenes," said
Il saw. him several times af-
this, once on Seventeenth street, in
1905. l told him at that time that l
was going to Alaska to organize a un,
on at Nome.
Went to His Room.
Later in the evening Orchard came
o my room and asked if l would mail
4 letter from Nome for him. 1t was
addressed to Mrs. Harry Orchard. He
.old me he wanted to get rid of that
woman. He said he might come up to
Alaska later on himself. l arrived at
Nome August 18th, 1905, and two days
alter l mailed the letter"
Didn't Know Woman.
On cross-examination, Moore said he
lid not inquire whether the oma to
whom the letter was addressed was
Orchards wife or not. Orchard refer
ed to her as that woman"
Woman On Stand.
Following Moore came Mrs. Mike
Fallon of Butte, Mont. The witness
was formerly the wife of Harry Wat
ers, generally known as kid" Waters,
gun man." who was employed as a
detective by the Mine Owners associ-
in Colorado. She testified that
she had seen Waters in company with
D. C. Scott, Lyle Gregory and Harry
Orchard.
Not a Bomb Maker.
Owen Barns, was the next witness.
Barns was implicated by Orchard in
the manufacture of certain bombs.
Barns lost both feet while mining. In
l9O4 Barns lived in a cabin near the
independence depot. Orchard only
zane there once, he said. He denied
having had a conversation with
orchard as to the manufacture of dy-
bombs or having assisted in
he manufacture of bombs.
Never Planned Robbers.
He never committed or planned to
commit any act of violence with Har-
y Orchard, he declared. Barns said
hat the day of the Independence de-
Dot explosion, June 6, 1904, he was at
the democratic national con
Jention at st. Louis.
Grocery Clerk Next Witness.
Next came Jacob Wolff, former clerk
or George Pettibone, and in whose
name letters containing money were
to Harry Orchard in San Fran
cisco.
Headquarters at Store.
Wolff said that many Colorado min
ers when in Denver made Pettibone's
store their headquarters. He often
made purchase for them and allowed
them to leaver bundles, etc, in his
store. He met Orchard at the store
once, but did not remember ever hay
.ng seen Steve Adams there.
Registered a Letter.
He saw Pettibone open and read a
letter in 1904. Later he went to the