Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-06-13
ORCHARDS STORY
Principal Witness for the State in
the Haywood Case Telling
o. His Crimes.
JUDGE ADMITS EVERYTHING
He Was Paid and Directed by the
i Western Federation Of Miners
/ Was Calm and I'm.
mn moved.

Boise, June Ga wel1 groomed
stockily built man dressed in a
gray sack suit and apparently as
composed as any of his hearers, the
man known as Harry Orchard, a
self-confessed, many time murderer,
took the witness stand in the dis
trict court Of Ada county at 9:45
o'clock Wednesday morning. He 10
the principal witness against W. d.
Haywood, charged with the murder
OF Former Gov. Steunenberg, and
who is, by Orchards story, connected
with many fearful crimes.
An undertaking by the special pros
ecutors for the state that they would
by later proof and connection legiti-
mize his testimony opened the way
like a flood-gate to the whole diaboIi-
cal story and throughout the entire
day Orchard went on from crime re.
cital to crime recital, each succeeding
one seemingly more revolving than
those that had come before.
Orchard confessed that as a mem
Der of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill In the
Occur d'Allenes he lighted one of the
fuses that carried fire to the giant ex-
plosion, confessing that he set the
death trap In the vindicator mine at
Cripple Greek that blew out the lives
Of Superintendent Mccormick and
Foreman Beck; confessed that be- |
cause he had not been paid for his |
first attempt at violence in the Vindi
Gator mine he had been treacherous
to his associates by warning the man
ayers of the Florence and Cripple
Creek railway that there was a plot
TO blow up their trains confessed that
he cruelty fired three charges Of buck
shot into the body Of Detective Lyle
Gregory Of Denver, killing him in
stantly, confessed that for days he
stalked Governor Peabody about Den
yer waiting chance to kill him, con-
fessed that he and Steve Adams set
and discharged the mine under the
depot at Independence that instantly
killed fourteen men and confessed
that failing In an attempt to poison
Fred Bradley Of San Francisco, he
blew him and his house up with a
bomb Of gelatine.
f And he has more brutal crimes to
tell about that will bring his bloody
career down TO its end at Caldwell
where, with great bomb he killed
Governor steunenberg. These will
come Thursday for he is to resume
the stand when the district court
sits again. The story was told to a
tense nerved rigid crowd that watched
with staring eyes for every move and
word Of the confessing witness, a
crowd that was sickened and weary
Of its disgusting details long before
James H. Hawley, pleading illness OF
himself at 8 o'clock in the afternoon
.ecurel adjournment for the day Or
chard retained control Of himself al
most from the moment he took the
stand and II he suffered much he did
not show it. His eyes we're bloodshot
md his face NOTED In color when
ae came into the room to confront
he man whose life he jeopardized.
BE was plainly very nervous. He
seemed at first 70 lose a little Of his
PHYSICAL control, for he walked I'M
Iteadily as he neared the stand and
'sached in an indefinite way for the
I'm Of the chair. He had trouble In
hiding his voice for q few minutes,
=, only for few moments. He quick
, sieadied himself and was soon
liking In the soft. easy tones that
haracteriss bis speech. His manner
its easy and bis care steady in any
irrrtsnn. that 8 question claimed bis
ficfsion. His eyes blinked little
Ihsn he told how be trafled and muir
sfsd Iyts GreSpr1 but his voice A. I