Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-29
STATE F Ais
TO SH A K E
TESTIMONY
WITNESS IN sTEuNENBERa MUIR.
DER CASE GIVES LIE TO OR.
cHARD's STORY.

Boise, Idaho. June 27.-The greater
part of the morning session of the
Steunenberg murder trial was used in
completing the examination Of w. F.
Davis, whom Orchard swore inspired
several Of the principal acts Of VIC.
lence committed at Cripple Creek dur.
Ing the strike. Senator Boran search.
lngly questioned him as to the Cripple
Greek strike and its principal events
the meeting at Denver after the indie.
pendence station was blown ZIP and
the subsequent journey to Wyoming
Borah drove Davis very hard, on the
conditions at Cripple Greek and his &C
ton in changing his name but Che wit.
ness held to his denial of misconduct
on the part of himself and assistants.
Ed Boyce, formerly president of the
Western Federation of Miners, now
one of the owners of the Hercules
mine, amused the court room as he
told HON in 1893 James II. Hawley,
now leading counsel against Haywood
but then retained as counsel for the
miners, suggested to Boyce the organ.
lzation of the Western Federation of
Miners as an offset to the mine own.
ers association.
Davis Calls Orchard Liar.
William F. Davis of Garfield, New,
whom Harry Orchard in his confession
of crimes In the Steunenberg murder
trial said led the mob that. destroyed
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill in
1899, inspired, as agent of Haywood
land Meyer, the Vindicator explosion
and the train wrecking plot at Cripple
Creek, and was an accomplice in the
Independence station crime added his
denial to the story told by Orchard
Davis is one of the most important
witnesses for the Haywood defense.
On direct examination by Clarence
barrow he went over the story of his
working life, including the pathetic
story of the death of his wife and babe
at Cripple Creek, at which he wept
and made positive denial of every
statement of Orchard that involved
him for his assistants in any form OF
crime. He denied that he was even
member of the union when the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine was
blown up and at the conclusion of his
general story swore that at Cripple
Creek during the strike Orchard tole
him of the Hercules mine affair and
threatened to kill Steunenberg.
Senator Borah Starts Grilllng.
The croSs-examlnation of Davis b!
Senator Borah was severe and search
ing. and was chiefly devoted, as far az
1t proceeded, with the Bunker Hill ant
Sullivan affair and the circumstances
under which Orchard made the tnrea
against Steunenberg.
Davis asserted that he remained a
Gem the day the Bunker Hill mill wa
blown up, and while ne said he say
the train in charge of the masked mol
arrive at and depart from Gem, h
could not name any one on the trail
except the engineer, Hutton. he sal
there was no excitement and ne mad
no inquiry about the mob.
The witness said that he remaine
In hiding after the mill was blown u
because he did not want to be deporte
or thrown into the "bullpen," and tina
he changed his name when he depart
ed for Butte shortly after because h
feared the mine owners "black list,
made up from petition that the en-
ployes Of the Bunker Hill had sen
to Governor Mcconnell protestin
against the unsafety of the mine.
--3orah showed that the petition ha
been presented six years before, an
that Butte was federation CAM
where the black list was ineffectiv,
Passing to the threat Orchard mad
against steunenberg, the witness wa