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ORCHARD A COWARD
Assassin Admits He Was Afraid
to Face His Victims.
CONTINUES HIS STORY

GrueliIna Cross-ExaminatIon Brings
Out Details Of Grimes Committed.
Plotted to XIII One Hundred and
Fifty Non.Union Miners.
Boise, Idaho, June 1.-THE attack
of the Haywood defense on the testi-
mony of Harry Orchard goes on unre-
mittingly. Orchard withstands the
strain with remarkable fortitude, and
at the end of six days shows no indi-
cation of mental or physical tagging.
The dynamiting of Fred. Bradley, in
San Francisco, were taken up. The
defense made long and determined
effort to expose several features OF it
to doubt and improbability, and to
vitiate it all by revealing the hand OF
the Pinksrtons.
Then the play went back to Denver
for the winter of 1S04-06 and the spring
that followed and there was an q.
tended effort to show that Orchard
had practically no communication
with the leaders Of the federation;
that he received no pay for the Brad
ley crime of anything else, and that
with Steve Adams. in . period Of ex-
treme poverty, extending over Pc
Rod of several months, he was reduced
to the necessity Of stealing a sheep
from the Globevills stock-yards that
he might have food.
Orchard, to laughing court room,
confessed that he stole the sheep. but
denied that 1t was because OF want.
He insisted that, all through that sup
posedly hard winter and spring. he
continued to draw money from Petti-
bone, through Adams, and explained
that II he did not see the federation
leaders often 1t was because he was
lying low" to avoid capture.
The Globeville inquiry developed
another shocking crime. At this Den
YER suburb there was diabolical plot
Orchard swore 1t was inspired by
Max Malich; the defense claimed that
Orchard was its author-to dynamite
q boarding house where $50 non-union
men lived, and in preparation for the
murder en- bloc, Orchard, Adams and
. man named Joe Mahalich. broke In
TO two magazines and stole 600 pounds
OF dynamite, which they lugged home
at night and buried in their cellar.
The crime was abandoned. Orchard
said, in one of those flashes that make
his testimony remarkable. because
Haywood interviewed and forbade him
to have anything to do with 1t.
The examination next reviewed the
earlier attempt on Governor Peabody
and the making Of the bombs to kill
him, and the plots against Judges Cab
bart and Goddard. with IN effort every.
whore to tighten and cast doubt upon
the testimony. Orchard told . dra-
matte story of the hrst attempt to
assassiHate Peabody-an early morn
ing drive through the SNOW to place
the bomb, and wait for the victim,
who was spared By the uhsxbScted GD-
pearance Of two coal wagons. which,
coming from an alleyway, were driven
across the trigger string ut the mo
ment that Peabody was crossing the
mine.
Orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adams
into the play. He said that while he
and Adams were watching Judge God
dard's house, Mrs. Adams went with
them a couple of times a. blind, to
divert suspicion from them. Mrs.
Adams, who had seat among the
witnesses, laughed when Orchard told
the incident.
Orchard, who confesses that he hesi-
tated at no crime and took q hundred
desperate chances In those he COM
mitted, made an Interesting contribu-
ton to the psychological study Of his
personality when he called himself .
coward. He said he was too cowardly
to openly kill Judge Gabbert. that he
regarded all his acts as cowardly.
In five minutes Orchard showed more
emotion than at any time since he be-
gan his testimony. 1t was when the
defense, in q rough shod DEPRESSION,
asked him II he had not deserted his
Cripple Creek wife and left her in
poverty that compelled the sale Of her
washtub to buy bread. Orchard's lips
quivered and, with tears near, he fall
tered for a moment and then denied
that he had done so and said that the
federation leaders had promised to
care for her in his absence.