The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-06-14
FIRST WITNESSES
Taking Testimony in the Haywood
Case at Boise, Idaho,
Begins.
ORCHARD TELLS HIS STORY
He Claims that Through it All he Was
Directed and Paid BY Off
GERS of Western Federation
of Miners.


Boise, Idaho, June Through
James H. Hawley, senior of the group
of prosecutors, the state of Idaho
Tuesday made the opening statement
against William D. Haywood whom
it charges with the murder of Frank
Steunenberg, and began the presenta-
ton of the testimony by which it
hopes to prove the indictment laid
against him.
The opening statement was a
broad, sweeping arraignment Of the
leaders Of the Federation of Miners
who were charged with plotting whole
sale murder and hiring assassins, all
in a giant conspiracy of Vengeance up
on those who INSTRUCTED their way,
to destroy opposition by terrorism, to
control the political destinies OF the
communities covered by their organ
ization, and to perpetuate their own
power within the organization.
1t charged a widespread conspiracy
in inception from the north Idaho dis
turbance Is years ago, reaching down
to the murder of Frank Steunenberg,
and whose murdered victims, by bull
let and bomb, numbered scores. Haw-
ley declared that wherever in the
mining sections of the coast states
the federation had been in control,
there had been left a trail of blood
to mark it's operations. Of the
hired assessing he cried: ITO them
murder became trade and assassains
a means of.living."
Boise, June Ga wen groomed,
stockily built man dressed in
gray sack suit and apparently as
composed as any of his hearers, the
man known as Harry Orchard, a
self-confessed, many time murderer,
took the witness stand in the dis
trict court of Ada county az 9:45
o'clock Wednesday morning. lie is
the principal witness against w. d..
Haywood, charged with the murder
of Former Gov. Steunenberg, and
who is, by Orchards story, connected
| WIN many 1ear1ul crimes.
An undertaking by the special pros
ecutors for the state that they would
by later proof and connection legiti-
mize his testimony opened the way
/ like flood-gate to the whole diaboli-
| cal story and throughout the entire
| day Orchard went on from crime re1
cital to crime recital, each succeeding
one seemingly more revolving than
those that had come before
Orchard confessed that as mem
Der of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill in the
Occur d'Allenes he lighted one of the
fuses that carried fire to the giant Elk.
plosion, confessing that he set the
death trap in the vindicator mine at
Cripple Creek that blew out the lives
of Superintendent Mccormick and
Foreman Beck; confessed that be-
cause he had not been paid for his
first attempt at violence in the Vindi'
Gator mine he had been treacherous
to his associates by warning the man
ayers of the Florence and Cripple
Creek railway that there was plot
to blow up their trains confessed that
he cruelty fired three charges of buck
shot into the body Of Detective Lyle
Gregory of Denver, killing him in
stantly, confessed that for days he
stalked Governor Peabody about Den
yer waiting a chance to kill him. con
ifessed that he and Steve Adams SCI
and discharged the mine under the
depot at independence that instantly
killed fourteen men and confessed
that failing in an attempt to poison
Fred Bradley of San Francisco. he
blew him and his house up with
bomb of geIatine.