The Red Cloud chief., 1907-06-21
ORCHARD AGAIN TESTF|ES
sWEARs HAYWOOD HELPED HIM
DECEIVE MRS. ORCHARD.
DAY OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
Letters Produced Showing colIuson
With Observation-Disclosures Questioned
as 20 Whether He Had venaeful
Spite Against Steunenberg.

Boise, Ida, June 19.--The prosecu.
tion in the Steunenberg murder trial
offered one of it's most importan:
pieces of evidence against William y.
Haywood, when, recalling Harry Or.
chard for redirect examination, it in
troduced and secured the admission of
four letters tending to show that Hay
wood during the fall of 1905, when Or
chard swears he was engaged on vari-
Gus crimes for the federation leaders,
had participated in a plan to deceive
Mrs. Orchard the second, of Cripple
Creek as to the Whereabouts OF her
husband.
Over a variety of protests from the
defense Orchard was allowed to testi-
Haywood told him that Mrs. Orchard
was writing him for information as
to Orchards whereabouts. Orchard
swore that he proposed that he should
write his wife a series of letters that
were to be falsely dated and deliv-
cred to Mrs. Orchard by agents OF
the federation.
ters, which he dated at San Francisco
and had them delivered through Paddy
Mullaney, who represented the fedora.
tion at Cripple Creek. Orchard iden-
titled the two letters and. overruling
all objections of the defense, Judge
Wood admitted them.
Next Orchard swore that he wrote a
third letter, purporting to come from
Nome, Alaska, and that under the
general arrangement that he had made
with the federation officials Marion
Moore carried the letter to Nome,
where he went as organizer Of the fed
Grafton, and posted it. This letter,
bearing the date of Nome, Aug. 8,
1905 was produced, identified and ad-
mitted as evidence.
From Haywood to Mrs. Orchard.
Orchard then identified letter
which Haywood wrote to Mrs. Or
chard. 1t was as follows:
Denver, Nov. Is, 1905.-Mrs. II. Or
chard: Dear Madam and Sister,
have not heard a word since l saw
you. The last information | got was
! from Alaska. | think Fairfield was
the name Of the place. | see that aw-
full conditions prevail among the law
and order element.
WILLIAM d. HAYWOOD"
The defense attacked the letters
and Orchards story about them when
it got a chance to cross-eXamine the
witness, but Orchard held to the story
he told about them. The witness sue
cessiveiy deLied that he had made an
arrangement for the delivery of the
letters to Pinkerton agents; that the
letters had only made their appear
ance since he left the stand last week
or that he had invented the story be-
cause his wife had Haywoods letter
in her possession. He swore positive
ly that Haywood had agreed to write
the Alaska letter and that Pettibone
and Meyer knew OF the arrangement.
1t was a day of correspondence and
documentary evidence. Beside the
four San Francisco-Alaska letters the
state secured the admission of GER
tilted copy of the unsigned letter
which Orchard got at Caldwell jail
and which Orchard swears was in the
handwriting of Pettibone. The let
ter was as follows
Letter Without Signature.
December 3O.--Friend Tom: Your
letter received. That was sent to
Jack December 21 for you. He
should send it so that you ought TO
have it by this time. VIII not write
any more this time. Write me as soon
as you get to your new field"
The letter was post marked at Den
yer on Dec. 80, the day that Steunen
berg was killed, and 1t is claimed by
The state that the Jack mentioned
was Smpkins and that the that" re
ferred to was 800 which Orchard
= swore he asked Simpkns to secure foi
> him when he was leaving Caldwell
The state developed its contention
( that as tending to show conspiracy
) and knowledge Of the Steunenberg
' crime Orchard was, without any re
{ quest from him, furnished with coun
, sci within few days after his arrest
| 1t first showed that Orchard, aftel
l his arrest, sent no communicates
J. from the Caldwell Jail. and then pro
4 duced and secured the admission o
1 the original of the following tele
4 gram
!. Spokane, Wash, January 3, 1906
/ To Il. Hogan, care sheriff Caldwell
4 Idaho. Attorney Fred Miller will star
Tod,