The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-06-14

i rectly from Mcfarland or any other
person, it was suggested to him by
the oath he took when he joined the
Western Federation of Miners. They
read to him the oath from the ritual,
but when they did that he expressed
the belief that the language had been
given to him by the Almighty.
For hours the defense hammered
away on the motive of having his own
life. They sought to show it in the
force of example drawn from the i'm
munity of the informers in the Mollie
Mcguire cases, but this the witness
would not admit. Next they sought
for it in Orchards effort to bring
Steve" Adams over to the state and
then in the subsequent meetings with
Mcfarland and Gov. Gooding. Again
they emphasized the fact that the
witness had twice written his testi-
mony out but Orchard repelled the sug-
gestion that it had been changed by
Mcfarland, Attorney Hawley or any
body else. After that it was suggest
ed that Orchard had placed his flu
ture in the keeping OF Mcfarland;
his family in Canada; that he had
been supplied with dates to strength
en- his story and that Mcfarland had
trained him as a stage manager for
his appearance on the stand, but all
these Orchard denied. Then they
tried to show him a pampered, petted
hero-like prisoner fed from the table
of the warden, addressed as Harry
by Gov. Gooding and Warden Whit
ney, given freedom and liberty that no
other prisoner ever had in the world,
and all this consideration implied that
he would never be hanged for the MUIR
der of Stuenenberg. Then came
showing as to how the prisoner had
been dressed and groomed for the
trial, and lastly for the climax they
showed Orchard planning for and saw
ing the life Of Bob" Wetter, con-
demned to death for murder Or
chard admitted that he had appealed
to Gov. Gooding about Wetter and
that later Gov Gooding first reprieved,
Wetter and then commuted his SEN
tence Of death to one of life imprison-
ment.
Orchard left the stand at $3.50
o'clock, after having occupied it for a
total of 321s hours. Just before he
was excused and remanded he went
back into the hands of the prosecu-
ton and identified the casing of the
bomb he planted at the gate of Judge
Goddards house in Denver. Orchard
is to return to the witness chair later
because the defense must lay the
formal lines for impeaching him, and
the state must still have it's redirect
examination.
Immediately Orchard left the stand,
the state began the corroboration OF
the Bradley poisoning story. Mrs.
Sadie Swan, who, as Miss Sadie Bell,
was maid in the Bradley house,
Oliver Crook, the nnilkman who sold
the milk that was poisoned, and 2. Y.
NfcCreary, the chemist who analysed
the poisoned milk, carried the revolt
! ing tale through to the analysis that
showed from 40 to so grains OF
strychnine In quart or is.
Mrs. Swan identified Orchard as
the man who called at the house. They
all confirmed the date as within three
or four days Of the explosion, and
Mrs. Swan swore that she opened the
front door to get the morning paper
a few minutes before the explosion and
saw nothing ON the steps. There VIII
be further testimony as to the Brad
ley incident tomorrow.
Immediately after the noon recess,
former Gov. Peabody Of Colorado met
Harry Orchard in the ofElca OF coul-
SCI for the prosecution. The meeting
was unexpected as far az Orchard
was concerned and when ne saw Pea
body ne began to trerhbse.
sI am ashamed TO speak TO ycu. gov
ernor: am ashamed 10 look at you" !"
Galtered Orchard.
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