Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-12
Remarkable Scheme Which Was
Worked Successfully on the Coun-
trymen of the West.
INSURANCE AGAINST STORMS
No Dates Could Be Had - Attorney
Richardson Again Becomes Much
Excited - Another Question
of Veracity-Talks With
Haywood

The cross-eXamination OF Harry
Orchard today is being carried over
the attempt on the life of Governor
Peabody at Canon City and the
events Immediately succeeding, in
Guiding the Goddard and Gabbert
dynamite plots, and follows the usual
methods designed to confuse and
discredit the witness.
Still another crime came home to
Orchard today. Under examina-
ton he confessed that he swindled
farmers in southern Colorado with a
fake hail insurance game while
there trying to kill Governor Pea
body.
BOISE, Idaho. June 12.-Harry Orchard.
calm and self-possessed, began today the
seventh day of his examination as to his
crimes that run the gamut of eyil-doing
until murder has become commonplace and
wholesale assassination barely enough to
cause sensation in the crowded courtroom.
So far no trap laid by counsel has caught
Orchard in material contradiction of his
original narrative.
He is willing to tell everything he has
! done; to give the closest de:ail-detail SO
minute that some difference seems inevita-
| bic when it is retold, but not once has this
| difference been material Counsel for the
most remarkable witness they have ever
seen, and even say that he is possibly the
most peculiar psychological study ever Of
fered for the dissection of cross examiner.
| May Have Been Coached.
The suggestion has been made that the
| man has been coached for the ordeal. War
| den Whitney of the Idaho penitentary
| laughs at the idea. He, TOO, after watching
Orchard for more than twelve months pro-
| nounces him as far beyond hs ken, not
withstanding his intimate knowledge of the
character of criminals. Orchard, he says.
| has not talked for fifteen minutes about his
| examination with any one sinse he first
went on the stand. He spends his time
alone when not asleep eating, thinking
| or reading.
| A remarkable feature of the cross-exami-
! nation has been the freedom allowed by the
! prosecution to counsel for the defense.
| Objection are seldom made, and these are
more frequently overruled than sustained.
! Judge Wood has evidently determined to
! give every latitude in the examination OF
| Orchard and to allow every detail of the
| story to go before :he jury. Whether he
| will later rule out any portion of the evil
| dence depends upon the argument to be pre-
| scented when the defense renews its objec-
| lions to Orchards testimony on the ground
| that It does not sufficiently connect their
| client with the conspiracy alleged by the
| state.
May Wear Him Down.
| The REORGANIZATION OF orchard has
been carried out in such extraordinary de-
tail and so much time has been consumed
| by thrashing the same straw over and over
again that there is reason to believe Rich
| ardson hopes TO wear the witness down.
The whole of yesterday afternoons tesu-
| mony was confined practically to a few
| months of the time Orchard spent in Den
| yer after returning from his trip TO Cali
fornia where, he asserts, he tried to Kill
| Fred Bradley. When court adjourned
Orchard was starting for Canon City, Col,
| for the purpose of assassnating former
Gov Peabody. During his narration
Orchard continually mentions the names of
| people who in the court room as spec
| tators or as witnesses. Mrs Steve Adams
| and Mrs. Pettibone always present;
Bill" Easterly. who has formally been
| charged by Orchard with participating in
his plans, is constantly an attendance, and
James Kirwan the acting secretary of the
Western Federation OF Miners. and whose
name has been brought in by Orchard from
time to time but who has not been charged
by the witness with having taken part In
any of the conferences, is generally an in
terested listener.
Came on a Summons.
Kirwan came to Boise on a summons
from the state The Western Federation is
now holding its annual session at Denver,
and substitute for k!rWau selected
in order to allow him attend the trial.
Haywood while In the court room has
ceved several kilograms from the mem
bers of the federation. He always
gratified to receive them and shows them
to members of his counsel.
Attorney Richardson began at once to
question Orchard this morning regarding
the latter's home in Denver about April,
49, o. Orchard testified yesterday that
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