The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
MisSive Shows Defendant Helped
to Hide Orchards Whereabouts
Writes Murderer's Wife at Time of
Crime That Husband Is in North
BY Oscar King Davis


with Haywood for the deception of
the Cripple Greek Mrs. Orchard as to
her husbands Whereabouts. 1t was in
1905. Orchard said, when he and Hay
wood talked it over.
WRITES FOR LETTERS
Haywood told me-" the witness tes-
tilted. that my wife had been writ
ing to him to find out where 1 was
said that I would write some letters
dated at San Francisco, and that We
would give them to Paddy Maloney
TO give to her. Paddy was the rep-
resentative of the western federation
In Cripple Creek, looking after the
giving out Of money and the distri-
button of relief
Il told Haywood that ! would also
write a letter to her to be dated in
Alaska. Marion Moore. a member OF
the executive board. was going to
Alaska that summer. and we agreed
that he could take the Letter and mail
II from Cape Nome. I left the date
in that letter blank for him to fill
in when he mailed it."
Two letters were then shown to
Orchard and he identified them as the
ones he had written under the San Fran
cisco date. He said that he had written
them in Denver and had given them to
Paddy Maloney. The first one was
talked with Pettibone about IT, as well
as about the second one. The missives
were introduced in evidence over the
strenuous objection of the defense.
And then Orchard identified the third
letter, the one mailed from Nome The
envelope accompanied that, with the
Nome postmark $3.50 p. m, August 5,
1905. Orchard said that it was all in
his handwriting except the date He
fbOrachf fhor he This letter in
Pettibone's store and gave it TO Moore
there
Next came the most Interesting and
important letter Of all, the one to Mrs.
Orchard from Haywood. Orchard testi-
fed TO his familiarity with Haywood s
handwriting and identified the letter as
genuine, thus qualifying il for admis-
sion as evidence.
HAYWOOD MUCH PERTURBED
Haywood's face was a study while all
this was going on He understood as
Wei as anybody else in the courtroom
the significance and Importance of the
connection that was thus established
between him and Orchard at the very
time that Orchard was busy trying to
kill Steunenberg and he could not help
showing that IL was hard for him to
take. The jurors were lleenly inter
ested. and when the letter was passed
to them, after having been read, they
examined it with minute care and read
it with slow deliberation,' as if re-
luctant to pass it along.
Ii is a singular letter There had not
been a word said by Orchard as 10 any
place in Alaska. In fact. from the way
in which he spoke always of Cape
Nome" as if that were the name of the
place, it was evident that he was very
poorly informed about that territory
Yet Haywood volunteers the name OF
Fairfield. thereby showing that he, too,
was not familiar with Alaska. And
then, apparently, just by way of lending
verisimilitude to his interest, Haywood
adds the ineongruous but significant re-
mark that an awful condition prevails
among the law and order element"
The reading OF his own letters was
very hard for Orchard to take II up
set him more than anything that has
occurred to him in the courtroom except
his explanation of his conversation and
his motive for making his confession.
His face changed color several times
and he shifted his glance repeatedly
from the floor to the ceiling and back
again.
ORCHARD SHOWS REMORSE
whether it was the disclosure Of his
deceitful treatment of the woman or
the revelation of the cheap sentiment
he dispensed in the first letter that af-
fected him there was nothing to show.
But the incident was about the most
trying to his composure that has oc-
Cured in court.
When Orchard was excused Ed Boyce,
the former president of the western
federation, who is now a millionaire,
being one of the owners OF the Her
cules mine, was called. He is a tall,
thin man with a washed out complexion
and a nervous trick of screwing up his
face as he answers a question. He had
got bravely over looking like the man
who used to talk about the music of
the tramp of $4,000 armed miners" as
he did when he was urging the mem
bers Of the federation to arm them
selves and drill so as to be able to
fight the militia Senator Borah exam
ined him to lay the foundation for the
I introduction of lot of articles from
the Miners Magazine, the official organ
of the federation, which will be submit
I ted tomOrrOW