Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-06-12

Boise; Idaho, Special-Harry Or
shard crowded his admissions of
grave crime when continuing his
case against William D. Haywood, he
made a detailed confession Of the
murder of Frank Stuenenberg by all
internal machine that directly opens
the way for his own conviction and
execution for the mortal offense. He
swore that the assassination of Stu
enenberg was first suggested by Hay
wood, was plotted by Haywood, Moy-
er, Pettibone and homself, was fanc-
ed by Haywood and was executed By
himself after the failure Of an at
tempt in which Jack Sinipkins had
participated.
Orchard lifted the total of his owh
murdered victims to Is, detailed the
circumstances under which he tried to
murder former Governor Peabody,
Judge GODDARD, Judge Gabbart, Gen.
Sherman Bell, Dave Moffat and Frank
Herne. incidentally he confessed 10
a plan to. kidnap the child Of one of
his former associates.
Hunt for Stuenenbefg.
Then under cross-examination by
the defense Orchard confessed guilt
Of the sordid social crimes of de-
serting his young child and wife in
Ontario, fleeing to British Columbia
with Hattie Simpson, the wife of an
other man, and committing bigamy by
marrying a third woman at Cripple
Creek. Through the shocking details
of murder plots, stories of social
bomb-making and tales of manhunts
with sawed-off shotguns and internal
machines as weapons, the witness
went on in the same quiet off-hand
manner thst marked his demeanor
the day before. His voice dropped
to lower key as the pitiful story
OF she long hunt for Stuenenberg mar
rowed down to the last day and hs
told of the race from the hotel to
the house Of his victim walking into
this death trap and the meeting in
the evening gloom as the victim walk
ed unconsciously to his doom. Through
it all he WINGED but once. and that
was when the defense made him name
his six sisters and his one brother and
give their residences in Ontario and
Ney York.
State Gets Full Story.
The defense fought the story with
a 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 shut out the contents of tele-
gran received and a telegram sent
by Orchard after his arrest. Except
for this the State managed to get in
its story intact.
The State began its corroboration
of Orchards crimson tale by produc-
ing the lead casing of the Peabody
bomb. Orchard identified it, swore
that he brought it from Canyon City
W OellNCl duu luCll Oll W w tiiloSC,
where lie gave it to a man named
Cunningham. 1t was thrown into
the river, and the State promises
later to prove its recovery.
Haywood and his kinfolk listened
quietly to the long recital and about
their first show Of feeling was one of
amusement when Attorney Richard
son beoan his onslaught and brought
out Orchards domestic crimes.
There was the same precautions
and the same armed guards to protect
Orchard and the same court room
scenes except that among tile spec
tators the women to men were two
to one. There was another rush for
admittance and the doors Of the
court had to be closed at both sessions.
Orchard finished his direct exami-
nation at 2::35 o'clock and the cross
examination only reached to the Coer
d'Alene days of 1899, when the court
rose.