The San Francisco call., 1907-06-25


TAKES Up ORCHARD STORY
From this description OF the injus-
uces under which the federation had
suffered Da-row turned 10 Orchard and
from that time on occupied himself
with the story which Orchard had told
OF the witness stand.
He denied fatty that Orchard had had
anything 70 do with the blowing Up OF
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine. the
affair that opened the war in the Occur
d'Alenes in 1899. He denied also that
Orchard had fixed q bomb IN the Vim
dicator shaft The Bradley explosion
was included IN the denials. as were the
killing OF Lyte Gregory. the story OF
the plot 10 kidnap Gus Paulson's chill
cren az Wallace and the stories OF al
tsmpts on Governor Peabody, Judges
Gabbert and Goddard and Sherman Bell.
All these incidents in the Orchard
story Darrow characterized as lies. So.
too, he denied Orchards testimony
about seeing Haywood in his bedroom
and about the conversations with Hay
wood and Meyer and PeItibone when
murder was the theme and details OF
execution were said 10 have been dis
cussed- The transfer Of money by Hay
wood 70 Simpkins was not denied. but
DarrOw promised 70 show that every
cent was spent for the legitimate pur-
poses OF the federation
The Orchard account OF the Independ-
ence depot explosion was also denied
IN so far as il implicated any Of the
federation men. Whether Orchard did il
or not Darrow said he did not know;
but he did not believe that Orchard
did IL
The column OF admissions is longer
and includes points all the way along
IN Orchards story. almost from the
time he reached Crystal Creek in the
summer OF 1902. Orchard did know
Bill Davis, Bill Eas;erly. Sherman
Barker and other union men al Cripple
Creek
He did belong 70 the union there,
and he and his wife did draw relief
from the union treasury. He did meet
Meyer and Haywood at Denver. and
he did call on them at federation head
quarters He cid go with Meyer TO
Ouray as a guard. having Just hap
pened 70 drop in at headquarters when
Meyer was in need Of & man..
He vas q friend OF Pettibone and
PetI.boae cid send a registered letter
20 him IN San Francisco. as well as
money by Postal telegraph on two oc-
casions-
EXPLAINS INCIDENT
All three Of these incidents were ex-
planned In the registered letter Petit
bone sent the union membership card
and the Masonic emblem, which
Orchard had left with him for safe
keeping, and IN the two telegraphed
money orders Pettibone sent the cash
that Orchard had deposited with him
On going away after the Independence
explosion Pettibone used the assumed
names On all these occasions that
/ Orchard had given explicit directions
should be used. both OF addressee and
! OF sender. Orchard was very careful
I in those days about his correspond
ence
Also admitted by Darrow was Or
charo's testimony that he had lived
at Pettibones home in Denver for q
month There wasn't a lame dog that
couldn't find q home in Pettiboae's
Eoodshed." said Darrow.
Orchard old talk with Dave Coates
/ IN wallace about KIDNAPPING Pauise-.s
children II was his account of the
/ conversation that was q lie. What han
1 peled was that when Coates realized
+ that the proposition was not ioke
he threatened not 10 have Orchard ar
rested, or 70 warn Paulson. but to Wal.
I until the kidnapping had actually been
accomplished and then publish an
extra Of his paper deuouncine O-chsr ~
Orchard was with Sinpkins. There
was no doubt Of that. for Sinpkios
came on 70 Denver from Caldwell.
using the remainder of the excursion
ticket that Orchard had bought when
ne started from Denver for the Port
land exposition
HAYWOOD TO TAKE STAND
DarroE promised 10 support these
denials and confirm these admiss;on.
and justify the explanations by tbe
testimony OF practically all the m.n
directly implicated and scores. moi
merely miners, but eminentIy resp.c-
table persons who never did days
work in their lives
The attorney promised that the first
witness on the stand for the defense
would convince even HawIev that
Orchard was a liar. He agreed 10 uut
Haywood On the stand surely and Mover
perhaps Pettibone will not appear
I The reason In both cases is that tf,ev
may have 20 be tried themselves. and
II is not wise 10 put a man on the
stand in advance OF his own trial
Two things DarroE ignored aito-
gether. HayEood's letter to the Cripple
I Creek Mrs. Orchard regarding Orchard
being in Alaska and Steve Adams. The
I letter cannot be denied. Darrow had
no need 70 admit II, and he made no
effort TO explain ii. So. too, he kept
fense about putting Adams on the
stand
Orchard has said that Adams was
present and helping at nearly every
crime that he committed. Adams is in
1 the Jail here, where he can be called
at moments notice IL the defense de-
sires 10 have him repudiate publicly the
/ confession that he made over a year
ago.
Fundamentally. Darrow's theory of
the Orchard confession IS that its au-
thor is a megalomaniac OF the most
extreme proportions. The one sincere
and continuing passion that Darrow
would concede 10 Orchard was hatred
{ OF Steunenberg- All the rest was bluff,
brag and conceit- It was .imagina-
tion" and pipe dream"
To his first chara ton of Or
chard. delivered early IN the day, the
lawyer kept adding bits OF description
as he progressed in his discussion OF
the confession
EPTTHETS FOR ORCHARD
Harry Orchard was a cheap soldier
OF fortune a shoestring gambler, who
never degraded himself by working for
any considerable length OF time since
1 he collected the insurance on the cheese