The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30

Orchards credibility. the dispute as TO
the time Orchard sold his interest in
the Hercules mine, the treatment of
Jack Simpkins while q prisoner in the
Idaho bull. PEN" another motive for
the murder of Detective Lyle Gregory
the whipping of men friendly TO the
strikers at Cripple Creek. and the cir
cumstances under which the processes
of the civil courts at Telluride were
disregarded by the military authorities.
Two witnesses swore that on the day
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill was
destroyed Harry Orchard was al Null
an. which is eighteen miles from
WardneT. They located him in poker
game, and one of them-Patrick Me
Hale. a barkeeper-swore that he sat
i'm the game BY various means. in
Guiding a showing that McHale is u
gambler the prosecution endeavored to
break this testimony, but both wit
nesses held to their stories.
Cruelty to Simpkins.
J. II. Ramey, who formerly operated
stage lines ia north Idaho. testified
that Orchard came To him on May ,,
1899, and offered TO sell him his inter-
est i'm the Hercules mine for $500
Orchard has testified that he finally
sold his interest in the mine in Feb
y
he was sent to the "bull pen" i'm north
Idaho in 1899 for reasons that he never
knew, described conditions in that
military prison. and told how negro
soldiers required Jack Simphins 10
stand for six hours in the hot sun of
d July day. refused him water, and
kept him up by menacing him with
their bayonets.
Cripple Creek Outrage.
Another cruelty witness was
William Amole, once q Waterman on
the Portland mine, which acceded to
the demands of the strikers at Cripple
Creek and continued to work with
union men. In picturesque language
and real good humor Amole told how
after he was first driven from the dis
trict, he sneaked back to get his fur
niture, only to be rounded UP by the
militia. The soldiers released him, but
as he left the Office of the Citizens Al
lance Re was set upon by a party of
armed masked men. He testified that
they took him six miles outside the
town and there cruelty whipped him
with revolver butts and blacksnakes.
Experience of Colorado Judge.
Judge Theron Stephens, now of Gold
field. New. but once of the district
court al 16nuTlue, traced the history Oh
the relations between the courts and
the sOldiery in the trOublous days Of
the strike. He testified that when the
depOrteeS tried to use the injunction to
get back to their homes, the governor
returned the district to the control of
martial law, and that the writ of ha-
beas corpus and the subsequent order
for arrest for its disObedience against
the military authorities in the case of
Charles H. Meyer were both disregard
ed by General Sherman Bell and Cap
tain Buckley Wells. The judge
thought things had been very quiet in
Telluride district but under cross-ex-
animation said that some men had
been killed in an attack on the Snug
gler-UniOn mine, and that subsequently
Arthur Collins, manager Of the mine.
was murdered.
Cause of Greeory's Death.
There was also showing that De-
tective Lyle Gregory had beaten up
officers of the United Mine Workers,
and the defense explained that this was
offered as the foundation for the claim
that somebody besides the federation