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STICKS To HIS STORY
Haywood Lawyers Try to Pick
!, Orchards Tale to Pieces.

/, Orchards Tale to Pieces.
LITTLE PROGRESS MADE
Confessed Murderer Admits He Was
Also Employed BY Mine Owners
DsteetIvss-Heard Haywood Advise
Against Violence.
Boise. Idaho, June 8-Counsel for
William D. Haywood continued their
attack on the testimony of Harry Or
eha1d. and osntered their strongest as
psult on the events beginning with the
axp3osion in the indicator mine and
enAing with the earlier meetings be-
tween witness and the leaders Of the
Western Federation Of Miners In Den
~. 10 the extent that trafdc with
sSAe other side" In war OF labor and
oaaital In Colorado was discredftable,
thU succeeded in discrediting the wit
HooA
Taking up the admission that Or
cAard made In direct examination that
h had been treacherous to his COM
raAss In Cripple Creek by tipping on q
traan-wrecking plot they developed
- fast that Orchard entered the en-
pasv Of D. C. Scott, who had charge OF
The railway detectives. Orchard said
that With Scott he had met K. G. Ster.
line. q detective in the employ OF the
Nine Owners Association, and that
Dootk had paid his expenses and &C
oeenpanied him to Denver on the trip
When he first had met Meyer and Hay.
weed. He said he had agreed to re-
nort 70 Scott, but that he was lying to
I'm. never intending to make reports
- him, and never did make reports.
To defence also tried to show that,
beoauss he stood in with the other side,
orshard was never molestsd by the NIL
Mia In Cripple Creek during the strike.
ordhard admitted that Scott had told
hin that If the militia interfered with
him he Was to send for him, and that
- militia never did interfere with
Aln o. search his house.
Orchard said that he went to Scott
lrst because he had not been paid for
HI work ct the Vindicator mine, and
~ was jealous because he was given
Aarl work. like the Vindicator job,
While ether men got the simple task
e train wreckiag by displacing . rail.
1Gneo crimes, great and small. were
ndAed to Orchards record. The Grip
ne Creek woman, with whom he COM
mlttod bieam1, had three sons; Or
0Aard stole high grade ore from mess
nAto: he stole two cases Of powder
nom the vindicator mine; he stole
powdsr to make one Of the bombs
tAsown into the Vindicator coal mine,
anA 10 told lie.
Orchard testified that he heard Meyer
an Haywood deliver speeches at Grip
~ Greek during the strike Of 1908. adj
vislng against any violence by the
union men.
Ihe defense endeavored In various
yaus 70 throw the shadow Of doubt
81 improbability around the whole
ylndieaHor story and the alleged con-
nsedon Of w. r. Davis and William
uastsrly with the affair. I'd the cir
onustances under which Orchard tes-
1lasl he met Meyer and Haywood and
~ paid for the commission OF the
mtne. and to discrsdit Orchards story
tha4 he was sent hack to Cripple Creek
vseA unlimited credit and orders to
emit any act OF violence that he
eoRod 70. They confronted Orchard
VIA Eastsriy and Owney Barnes, and
payod the way for the contradiction
= tAsn a. the story told by Orchard.
anA several times during the day paved
- way for the controvertion Of his
testimony on material points. Orchard
sAool the tsst and strain very we'll and
AalA tsnaciously to the story he re-
lnEsd.
oiaasnly the defense took up the trip
ogoAArd made 10 Southern Colorado
~ Meyer. in the early part Of 1904.
- showed that Meyer feared to go
eeueA unguarded, because "mins own
- o0oaal thugs" had beaten mp limo
eaa1 union mon, and had sent for Or
sAesa - aid IN protecting him.
i vas agreed that they should carry
Guto3 shotguns and sit In the centre
g ~ railway car, 70 that Il they were
o11aaked they could defend Themselves.
.AAaeenV Richardson, In questioning
- witness made It very clear that
81 had been . perfectly straight pro-
Sna1f1on. s.free from any fake"
Counsel Jared mp several times dur
lng tAs day, and In the last passage-at-
wDo Prosecutor Hawley said that Rich
anAoea told . falsehood when he init
ma1sA hat Orchard was . fixed wit
AAoA
pretty Footpad Robs Aged Man.
New York, June 6,-While returning