The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-07
MORE TALES OF
MURDER TOLD
BY ORCHARD
WINGED ONLY WHEN HE SPOKE
OF HIS OWN FAMILY
RELATIONS.
BICAMY ONE OF HIS CRIMES
SwOre that Haywood First Suggested
the Brutal Murder of Governor
Steunenberg.


BOISE, Idaho, June 6.-Harry Or
chard crowned his admissions of
grave crimes today, when continuing
his testimony against William d.
Haywood he made an explicitly de-
tailed confession of the murder of
Frank Steunenberg by an Internal
machine that directly opens the way
for his own conviction and execution
FOR the mortal onense He swore
that the assassination of Steunenberg
was hrst suggested by Haywood, was
Jointly plotted by Haywood, Meyer,
Pettibone and himself, was financed
by Haywood, and was executed by
himself after the failure of an at
tempt in which Jack Simpkins had
participated.
Orchard lifted the total of his own
murdered victims to eighteen, de-
tailed the circumstances under which
he tried to murder former Governor
Peabody, Judge Gabbert, Gen. Sher-
man Bell, Dave Moffatt and Frank
Sherman Bell, DaV Moffatt and Frank
Herne. Incidentally he confessed to
plan to kidnap the child of one of
his former associates. Then under
cross-examination by the defense, Or
chard confessed guilt of the social
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young child in Ontario, fleeing to
British Columbia with Hattie Simp-
son, the wife of another man and
committing bigamy by marrying
third woman at Cripple Creek.
Through the shocking details of
murder plots, stories of secret bomb
making and tales of man-hunts with
sawed-off shotguns and Internal ma
chimes as weapons, the witness went
on in the same off-hand manner that
marked his demeanor yesterday. His
voice dropped to lower keys as the
pitiful story of the long hunt for
Steunenberg narrowed down to the
last day and he told of the race from
the hotel to the home to beat his vic
tim with the death trap and an
nounced the meeting in the evening
gloom as the victim walked uncon-
sciously to his doom. Through it
all he WINGED but once and that when
the defense named his six sisters and
his one brother and gave their resi-
dences in Ontario and New York.
The defense fought the story with
multiplicity of objections and sue
ceeded in heading off an attempt to
tell the story of the murder of Ar
thur Collins at Telluride and tempo
rarily shutting out the contents of a
telegram received and of a telegram
sent by Orchard after his arrest. But
for the rest the state managed to get
in its story intact.
The state today began its corrobo-
producing the lead casing of the Pea
body bomb. Orchard identified it.
swore that he brought 1t from Can
yon City to Denver and then on to
Wallace, where he gave 1t to a man
named Cunningham. 1t was thrown
into the river and the state promises
to later prove Its recovery.
Haywood and his kinfolks listened
quietly to the long recital and about
their first show of feeling was one of
amusement when Attorney Richard
son began his onslaught and brought
out Orchards domestic crimes.
There were the same precautions
ana the same armed guards today to
protect orchard and the same court
room scenes except that among the
spectators the women and men were
rush for admittance and the doors of
the courtroom mad to be closed at