The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-14

| 'ho"Su ID oTtihTu in toinflll~-
sion of Mean Crimcs-Nas Rc,lu-
ccd To Poverty and Rcsortcd to
| Stealing and Borrowing.
Boise, Idaho. June I2.-The defense
today carried on the examination OF
Harry Orchard down TO the actual
crime charged TO William ID. Haywooe
the murder Of former Frank StueneE
berg
The Steuenenberg crime was reach
ed at midday. and counsel for the de-
tense directed their efforts to an at
tempt 10 cloud the earlier purposes
and the movements OF Orchard with
/ uncertainty Ond indefiniteness. Then
they emphasized the abandonment of
all efforts TO kill after Orchard first
tracked Steuenenberg to hoteI I'm
Boise and with SHELTON key had
gained entrance To the room in which
the governor was living Here they
delayed for moment TO prove that
Orchard twice wrote and once tele-
City to urge him 10 come and join in
the crime and the direct implication
was that Orchard was endeayoring 10
inveigle another federation man into
the crime which would bring discred-
1t and dishonOr to the organization.
Then the witness was carried over his
long journey into North Idaho. and
his crimes there, including a plot TO
kidnap and hold for ransom Paulson's
child were emphasized.
Orchard swore that David Coates.
formerly lieutenant governor OF Col
orado and late publisher in Wallace.
Idaho, first suggested the kidnapping
to Pettibone and himself at Denver.
Paulson, once poor miner had
made a fortune in the Hercules mine.
in which Orchard Eeld an interest
when the property was not paying;
and it was believed that il his chill
dren were stolen he would come
through with $4,000 or $50. 900 I'm ran
SOM"
Orchard said that when he went TO
North Idaho he got Jack Simpkins to
enter the plot, and TO get here they
Coates was asked to stand up, and
Orchard said that he was the man.
Orchard was then asked whether he
had not himself proposed the crime
to Coates, who Immediately rebuffed
him and whether Jack Simpkins had
not warned Paulson the minute he
heard the plot. Orchard denied both
suggestions; and reiterating his first
story, he insisted that Coates had
consented TO stay in the plot and han
die the money they hoped to get from
Paulson.
Then the defense showed the wit
ness in the commission of a series of
mean crimes, and reduced TO poverty.
in which he had TO resort TO pawning.
borrowing and stealing TO live for
long period.
First he pawned guns or jewelry
for $500 or $1,000 Then he accepts
the hospitality of Paulson's home while
he was planning TO steal Paulson's
child. After that, with Jack Simpklns
he broke into the Oregon railway and
navigation company'I station. They
'|ere after trunk full OF jewelry sam
pies but instead got a trunk .ull OF
shoe samples Next he tapped a cash
register at Burke for 500 or $40
Summing Of the period poverty and
hardluck, the defense wanted to knoH
why, IL he were on a mission I'm Idaho
OF murder for Moyer, Haywood and
Pettibone and with unlimited credit
for them. he did not send TO them for
money instead Of borrowing and steal
ing.
Orchard replied that he did send
letter TO Meyer at Butte and got
800. but that he did not send to Hay
wood for more because he was tenn
porarily Oh the Steuenenberg errand
and away from where steuenenberg
lived
Lastly there came a showing that
Orchard had borrowed $500 from Paul
son On the strength Of a false story
that he was going to Los Angeles TO