Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-09
ORCHARD CONTINUES
HIS CRIMSON STORY
Almost Every Crime In the Cal.
sndar for Star Witness.
BE- MURDEHsi sloAMY AND ARSON
~ to the steunsnbsrs Murder, Or
ehare swore II was Plotted BY Hay
Wood pettIbons and liImsslf--Hay-
wood Appears uneoneerned.

Wood pettIbone and liImsslF--Hay-
wood Appears uneoncsrnsd.
Boise, Idaho. June s.--IIarry Or
chard crowned his admissions OF
grave crimes Thursday when, contin-
aing his case against William d.
haywood, he made an explicitly de-
Ralied confession Of the murder Of
ank steunenberg by an internal
achine that directly opens the way
4or his own conviction ad execution
cr the offense. He swore that the
assassination OF steunenberg was first
suggested by Haywood, was jointly
plotted by Haywood, Meyer, Petit
bone and himself; was financed by
HAYWOOD and was executed by him.
self, after the failure OF an attempt
III whicn Jack slmpkins had partici-
pated.
Orchard lifted the total of his own
murdered Victims to eighteen, detail
"a the circumstances under which he
rled to murder Former Governor
Reabody, Judge GODDARD, Judge Cab
BERT. General Sherman Bell, d. h.
nfofiatt and Frank Herne. Incident
ally he confessed to a plan to lhdnap
the child Of one of mis- former associ-
ates.
Then, under cross examination by
the defense, Orchard confessed guilt
og The sotdid social crimes OF desert
ibg his young child and wife in On
ario, fleeing to British Columbia With
lialtle Simpson, the wife 1t another
an, and committing blgamy by
marrying third woman at Cripple
Greek.
1nrough the shocking details Of
murder plots, stories OF secret bomb
making and details OF man hunts,
with sawed-off ahotgpns and inferpal
machlnes as weapons, the witness
went on In the same quiet, oif-hand
ananner that marked his demeanor on
"Wednesday
llis voice dropped to a lower key
- the pitlful story OF the long hunt
Tor steunenberg narrowed down to
fho last day, and he told OF the race
from the hotel to the home to beat
bis victim, with the death trap, and
the meeting an the evening gloom,
as the victim walked unconsclously
10 his doom Through II all he
Winced but once. and that was when
thu defense made him name his six
sisters and his oneSbrother, and give
thelr residences In Ontario and New
York.
Tue defense fought the story with a
multiplicity OF objections and sue
eeeded In heading or an attempt to
cell the story OF the murder OF Ar
thur Collins, at Telluride, and tenn
porafily shutting out the contents OF
d Telegram received and telegram sent
by Orchard after his arrest. But
for the rest. the state managed TO get
is iis story intact
There were the same precautions and
che same armed guards to protect
orchard. and the same court room
scene except that among the specta-
tors the women to men were as two
80 one.
Orchard finished his direct examin-
alton 81 1885 o'clock and the cross .ex-
animation had only reached down to
tAc Occur dAlene days of 1899, when
the court rose.
Counsel for Haywood claim they
Mill be- able 10 prove that what Or
thard has stated is untrue. II Is
even claimed that they viii. or can
nfoance. people who viii say thar
they themselves committed murders
81 which orchard accuses himself,
Haywood, the man whom Orchard
plctnres as the arch oonspirator,
shows little concern. He even laughs
outright when asked what he thinks
of me testimony He asserts posi-
lively that the connecting Of IDS name
Nth TIE murders is falsincation, I
and that Orchard has connected him
nth the crimes partly out OF spite
and partly az the suggestion OF de-
lseates and enemies Of the Western
Federation % Miners Il is not knoWn