The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-13

Boise, Ida, June 12.-The defense today
carried the cross examination of Harry
Orchard down to the actual crime charged
against William D. HaywOod-the murder
of Frank Steunerberg-and as it pro-
crossed assailed the testimony and the
theory of the state resting upon II. upon
and various points. The SteunenberS
crime was reached at midday and cOun-
sci for the defense directed their efforts
10 an attempt to cloud the earlier pur-
poses and movements or orchard with
uncertainty and Indebtedness. Then they
emphasized the abandonment of all ef-
fort to kill after Orchard had first
tracked Steunenberg to hotel in Boise
and with skeleton key had gained en-
trance to the very room in. which the
governor was living. Here they delayed
fer a moment TO prove that Orchard twice
wrote and once telephoned to Bill Eas-
terly at Silver City TO urge him TO come
and join in the crime and the direct COM
pliCatiOn was that Orchard was endeavOr-
ing TO inVeigle another federation man
into the crime. which would bring dis
credit and dishOnOT to the organization.
Then the Steunenberg crime was tenn
porarily thrust into the background and
the witness was carried over his long,
diVerting journey into north Idaho and
his crimes there including the dark plot
TO kidnap and hold for ransom the Paul
son children we're fOrcefully empha-
sized Orchard sWore that Dave Coates,
former lieutenant governor of Colorado.
ana then DuDilSner IN W dllaCes ia,
first suggested the kidnapping TO Petit
bone and himself at Denver.
Paulson, once a poor miner, had made
q fortune in the Hercules mine. in which
Orchard held ar interest when the prop
eTty was ValuelesS and il was believed
that if his children were stolen he would
come through with $4,000 or $4,000 in
ransom. Orchard said that when he went
10 north Idaho he got Jack Simpkins 10
come in on the plot and together they
went to Coates to renew the scheme.
confronteI by Coates.
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 If he had not
himself proposed the crime TO Coates,
who Immediately rebuffed him. and if
Jack Simpkins had not warned Paulson
the minute he heard of the plot. Orchard
denied both suggestions and reiterating
his first story insisted that Coates had
consented to stay i'm the plot and handle
the money that they hoped to get out
Of Paulson.
Then the defense showed the witness
I'm the commission of a series of mean
crimes, and reduced to poverty in which
he had to resort TO a pawnshOp, borrow
ing and theft TO live for a long period
First he pawned some jewelTy and guns.
This brought SIS or $50. Then with man
named Cunningham whom he said Vim
cent St. John had recommended to him
safe and tried. he discussed a project
10 give Cunningham the old Peabody
bomb which he still had in his trunk for
use by Cunningham on some non-union
men at the Tiger and PoOrman mine.
Then he accepted the hospitality Of
PaulsOn's home at the very time he was
plotting to steal the PaulsOn children
After that. with Jack Simpkins. he broke
into the Oregon Railway & Navigation
cOmpany's depot. They were after
trunk fun of jewelry samples. but instead
got trunk full of shoe samples. Next
he tapped a cash register at Burke for
$50 or $40.
II was a long era Of crime and poverty