Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-05
Was Boarding a
Train For Scene
Of Trial
HARD BLOW TO DEFENSE
Dead Man Was Expected to
Give Valuable Testimony
in Favor of Haywood.

Boise, July 5.--When the Haywood
trial was resumed at ten o'clock to-
day the defense offered as the first
witness Marion W. Moore, of McCabe,
Arizona, a member Of the executive
board of the Western Federation of
Miners. AS Moore took the stand At
torney Clarence Darrow announced
that another member Of the executive
board, Frank Schneider, was killed in
Denver night before last while board
ing a train to come to Boise as a
witness. Owing to this unfortunate
circumstance Darrow said that the de-
fense might be compelled to ask for
a few days delay little later on as
it would be necessary to secure from
various other sources the testimony
expected from Schneider.
Moore, was asked as to the circum-
stances under which he agreed to take
a letter to Alaska for Harry Orchard
and mail it from Nome to the second
Mrs. Orchard in Colorado. Moore said
he first met Orchard in Denver in
May 1904
II was sitting on bench in the
court house square when he came up
and introduced himself, saying he had
seen me in Occur De Alene," said
Moore. 81 saw him several times af-
ter this, once on Seventeenth Street In
1905. told him that time was going
to Alaska to organize union at Nome.
Later in the evening Orchard came to
my room and asked If I would mail a
letter from Nome for him. It was ad.
dressed to Mrs. Harry Orchard He
told me he wanted to get rid of the
woman He said he might come up
to Alaska later, himself. | arrived
in Nome August 12,1905, and two days
later mailed the letter"
On cross-examination Moore said he
did not inquire whether the woman to
whom he letter was addressed was Or
chard's wife or not. Orchard referred
to her as that woman"
Following Moore came Mrs. Mike
Fallon, of Butte, Montana This wit
ness was formerly the wife of Harry
Waters, generally known as kid
Walters, gun man. who was en-
ployed as detective by the Mine Own
ers Association, in Colorado. She tes-
titled she had seen Walters in COM
pany with D. G. Scott, Lyte Gregory
and Harry Orchard.
Didn't Help Orchard Make Bombs.
Owen Barnes was the next witness
Barnes was implicated by Orchard in
the manufacture of certain bombs
Barnes lost both feet while mining in
1904. Barnes lived in a cabin near
the independence Railroad depot. Or
chard only came there once, he said
He denied ever having conversa
ton with Orchard as to the manufac
ture of dynamite bombs or having as
sisted in the manufacture of bombs
He said he never committed or
planned to commit any act of VIC
lence with Harry Orchard. Barnes
said that one the day of the Inde
pendence depot explosion June 9Th
1904, he was attending the Democratic
national convention in ST. Louis.
Next came Jacob Wolff, former
clerk for George Pettibone, and II
whose name letters containing money
were sent to Harry Orchard in Sar
Francisco. Wolff said that many Colo
rado miners when in Denver made
Pettibone's store their headquarters
He even made purchases for them an(
let them leave bundles in the store. iHe
met Orchard at the store once bu
did not remember ever having seer
Steve Adams there. He saw Petit
bone write letter in 1904. He wen
to the postoffice and registered thu
letter for Pettibone.
what was put into the letter?
asked Darrow.
A union card ana Masonic
charm"
That was the last you saw Of th'
letter."
"Yes, sir"
There was no cross examination.
The defense claims that Orchard
asked Pettibone to keep his union care
and Masonic charm and some none!
for him when he started west In 1904
following the deportations f.om Grip
pie Creek.
Deported for Talking too Much
Archer Lester Harper, young maj
just admitted to the bar in Denve,
told of being arrested at Victor, Colo
rado, the day following the Indepvnd
ence depot explosion.
What for? asked Darrow.
Il was told talked too much in [
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