The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-27
DAVIS SWEARS THAT
HE D|DN 7 LEAD MOB
l'latly Denies the Statement
Made OIL Stand by
Orchard.
TOLD OF ORCHARDS THREAT
Others, rcstifyins, for Haywood,
Show Basis Of Steuncnberg
Plot.

BOISE. IDAHO, June oG.--William
i. Davis, of Goldhcld. New, one Of the
most Important witnesses for the de-
tcnse Of william ID: Haywood, accused
OF the murder OF Frank Steunenberg,
was called to the stand at noon to-
day. and his cross-cxanination had not
been completed when court adjourned
this afternoon. Harry Orchard testi-
fed that Davis led aud commanded
the mob that destroyed the Bunker
Jill and Sullivan mill in 1859; Inspired,
as the agent of Haywood and Meyer,
the Vindicator explosion and the train
wrecking plot at Cripple Creek, and
was an accomplce in the Independence,
Station crime.
on direct examination by Clarence
barrow, Davis went over the story
OF his working life, and made positive
denial OF every statement of Orchard
that involved him or his associates IN
any form OF crime. Davis denied that
lie was even II member of the union
when the Bunker Hi and sullivan
mine was blown up. Davis swore mat
at Cripple Creek during the strike
Orchard told him of the Hercules mine
affair and threatened to XIII Steunen-
berg
The cross examination of Davis BY
Senator Borah WAS severe and search-
ing 1t wns chiefly devoted. as FAR as
It proceeded, to the Bunker Hi ana
sullivan affair, and the circumstances
under which Orchard made the threat
against Steunenberg. Davis asserted
!, fiat he remained at Gem the day the
Punker Hi mill was blown up. While
he saw the train in charge OF the
masked mob arrive and depart from
Gem. he could not name any one on
the train except Engineer Hutton n
taid there was no excitement, ana ne
made no inquiry about the mob.
In Hiding After Wreck.
Davis said that :. remained in hid
ing after the mill was blown UP be-
cause he did not want to be depor;ed
or thrown into the Bull Pen and
that he changed his name when he de-
parted for Butte shortly afterwards
because he feared the mine owners
'biackllst," made UP from petition
that the employees Of the Bunker Hi
had sent to Governor Mcconnell. pro
testing against the unsafety OF the
mine. Borah showed that the petition
had been presented six years before
and that Butte was federation camp
where the blacklist was ineffective
Passing to the alleged threat that Or
chard made against Steunenberg, tbs
witness was unable to recall wha
any one else had said on that occa
sion except the words of Orchard. Da
Told OF Orchards Thrcnt.
Mrs Lottle Day. OF Denver. testifie
that In 1901, Orchard told her abou
the loss oi his interest in the Hercuie
mine. and that he said he would xii
Steunenberg FOR the wrong done him
John n. Elliott. an old soldier, swor
that Orchard told Kim on a train i
Idaho. in the fall OF 1905 that Orchar
was in the employment of the min
owners, and that there was plo
against the federation and It's leader!
Cross-examlnation showed that Elliot
had twice been in an insane asylur
with a mind unbalanced by faniil
troubles
Asked About Peabody.
John NJ. O'Neill. editor of the Miner:
Magazine. testified that Orchard cam
to his office early in 1906 and aske
the addresses of Governor Peabody an
General Sherman Bell, who. he salt
had been '.bumbed up" O'Neill sal
that he referred Orchard to a eft
directory. The State used the cross
examination of O'Neili to make 1t clen
that the Magazine was the official Of
gan OF the federation. and expresse
the federation's views, and to read
the jury from the Magazine som
sneering articles about the death
Steunenberg. ONeiil also said that +
had seen Orchard at federation heaG
quarters several times. and that SteN
Adams and Mrs Adams had also bee