Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-06-13
HE DENIES THE ALLEGATION
Insists that Crime Was Inspired BY
Federation Oficials.
PEABODY SET BAD EXAMPLE
Haywood and Meyer Wanted Mons
Following in His Footsteps.
MoYER FELT PERSONAL ENMITY
Star witness Tells of Interview with
Meyer In Denver ana One with
Haywood About Remo~-
inE Governor.


inE Governor.
1 BOISE, idaho. June 12-The defense to
/ day carried the eross-examination OF
/ Harry Orchard down to the actual crimc
charged against william u. Haywood
/ the murder Of Frank acknowledgement
as II progressed assailed the testimony
and the theory OF the state resting upon
/ It. The steunenberg crime was reached
at midday. and counsel for the defense
directed thei rehorts to an attempt TO
cloud the earlier purposes and movements
q OF Orchard with uncertainty and indef-
niteness Then they emphasized the
! abandonment of all effort 70 kill after
Orchard FIRST traced steunenberg to
4 hotel in Boise and with a skeleton key
/ had gained entrance to the room in which
( the governor was living. Here they .ae-
! layed for a moment TO prove that Orchard
/ twice wrote and once telephoned to Bill
/ Easterly at Silver City 10 urge him 10
come and Join in the crime. and the d.
rect implication was that Orchard was
! endeavorinR 20 inveigie another fedora
tion man into the crime which would
bring discredit and dishonor TO the or
! ganization.
kidnapping Plot Gone Into.
Then the Steunenberg crime was tenn
porarily thrust into the background ana
I the witness was carried over his long
| Journey into north idaho, and his crimes
4 there, including the dark plot TO kidnap
I and hold for ransom the Paulson children,
were forcefully emphasized. Orchard
swore that David Coates, former lieu
tenant governor OF Colorado and then a
publisher in Wallace. Idaho, FIRST sug-
gested the kidnapping 10 Pettibone and
-
miner. had made fortune in the Hercules
mine, in which Orchard held an interest
when the property was valueiess, and Il
was believed that II his children were
stolen he would "come through with
$4,000 or s60.O0e in ransom.
Orchard said that when he went 10 North
Dakota he got Jock slmpkins TO come IN
I on the plot, and together they went to
Coates to renew the scheme.
Coates. who was in court. was asked to
stand up for Identification. and facing him.
Orchard said he was the man.
Orchard was~then asked n he had not
himself proposed the crime 20 Coates. who
immediately rebuffed him. and " Jack
Simpkins had not warned Paulson the min
ute he heard OF the plot
Orchard denied both suggestions. reieer-
ating his first story. insisted that Coates
had consented to stay in the plot and han
die the money that they hoped to get out
Of Paulson.
Small Grimes by Orchard,
Then the defense showed the witness in
the commission Of a series OF mean crimes
and reduced 10 poverty, IN which he had 70
resort to a pawnshop borrowing and theft
to live for a long period. First he pawned
some jewelry and guns. This brought him
SIS or $50. Then. with a man named Cum
ningham, whom he said Vincent st. John
had recommended to him as safe and tried.
). he discussed a project TO give Cunningham
the old Peabody bomb. which he stili had in
his trunk. for use by Cunningham on some
nonunion men that were at the Tiger and
Poorman mine. Then he accepted the hos
pitality OF Paulsons home at the very time
he was plotting 10 steal the Psulson chill
dren. After that. with Jack simpklns. he
broke into the Oregon Railway and Navi-
cation company's station. They were after
trunk full OF jewelry samples. but In
stead got a trunk full OF shoe samples
Next he tapped a cash register at Burke
for $50 OF $40.
Defense View of Motive.
II was a long period of crime and pow
ert and hard luck and. summing It up. the
defense wanted to know why. n he were IN
Idaho on a mission OF murder for Hay
wood Meyer and Pettibone. and with un-
limited credit from them. he did not send
TO them for more money instead OF bor-
rowing and stealing Orchard replied that
he did send letter 10 Meyer at Butte and
got 800. but he did not send for more he
cause he was temporarily of the steuncn-
berg murder errand and away from where
steunenberg lived. and ala not want 10
send for more money until he could shG9
that he was back TO work
Lastly there came a showing that Or
ehard had borrowed 500 from Pauison,
: whose children ne had gone north TO steal.
on the strength OF a fraudulent story that
he was going to Los Angeles 10 sell min
ing stock for Coates. and that this was
} the money that actually paid his expenses
when he went back TO Caldwell on the
} final mission OF murder. Swiftly reviewing
: his meetings with his old partners, who
: had meantime become rich the defense
asked the witness IT, disappointed and
: angered st hts own hard luck In selling
out the Hercules mine. when steunenberg
sent troops into north Idaho he had not
suddenly decided TO borrow enough money
from Paulson TO take him to Caldwell.
lEhere he would KIN the man whom he
blamed for his misfortune Orchard siren
uously denied that this was his motive
Attempts 20 XIII Peabody.
The crOss-examination Of Orchard today
was carried over the attempt on the life Of
. Governor Peabody az Canyon City and
the events immediately succeeding. includ-
ing the Goddard and Gabbert dYnami.s
plots. and follows the usual methods de-
signed 20 confuse and discredit the witness.
, Attorney Richardson again suggested that
Orchard was being coached by Detsctivs
~ a.
\ tion and provoked the sharpest Wrangle
that the attorney and witness had IN their
A long contest. Orchard Spiritedly denied
that he was being coached and asserted
that he was telling the truth
Orchard said that he and PettiooRe dis
y eussed the project OF killing Judge Cab
|, bert. but that he alone had started out
r 10 murder Judge Goddard with a bomb
3 without any suggestion from HaywOo1,