Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-27
Witness Declares He Was Not
Even Member of Union at the
Time He Was Said to Be
Leading Strike Mob,
HEARD STEUNENBERG'S
LIFE THREATENED
Denver Woman Tells of Hear
ing Orchard Announce His
His Determination to Murder
Former Governor of Idaho.

1By Morning journal Special Leased Wire.
Boise, Idaho June 26.--Wlliam +
Davis, of Goldfield, New. one of tn,
most important witnesses for the de
fense of William D. Haywood, accused
of the murder OF Frank Steunenberg
was called to the stand at noon today
and his cross examination had no
been completed when court adjourned
this evening Harry Orchard testi.
fled that Davis led and commanded
the mob that destroyed the Bunker
Hill and sullivan mill in 1899; in
spired, as the agent of Haywood ant
Meyer, the Vindlcator explosion anC
the train wrecking plot at Cripple
Creek, and was an accomplice in the
Independence station crime
On direct examination by Clarence
Darrow 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 in
volved him or his associates in any
form of crime. He denied that he
was even a member Of the union
when the Bunker Hill and sullivan
clusion Of his general story he sWore
that at Cripple Creek during the
strike Orchard told him OF the Her
cules mine affair and threatened Ia
kin SteunenbeTs
The DISCRIMINATION of Davis hy
Senator Borah was severe and search
ing, and was chiefly devoted, SO far as
it proceeded, with the Bunker Hill
and sullivan affair and the circum-
stances under which Orchard made
the threat against Steunenberg. Davis
asserted that he remained al Gem the
day the Bunker Hill mill was blown
up, and while he said he saw the train
in charge of the masked mob arrive
at and depart from Gem, he could not
name any one on the train except the
engineer, Hutton. He said there was
no excitement and he made no in
quiry about the mob. He said that
he remained in hiding after the mill
was blown up because he did not
want to be deported or thrown into
the Dull pen" and that he changed
his name when he departed for Butte
shortly after because he feared the
mine owners blacklist made up from
q petition that the employees of the
Bunker Hill had sent to Governor
Mcconnell, protesting against the un-
safety of the mine. Senator Borah
showed that the petition had be n
presented six years before and tat
Butte was a Federation camp, WI 20
the black list was ineffective. Pass q
to the threat Orchard made against
Steunenberg, the witness was una"ie
10 recall what any one else had said
on that occasion except the words Of
Orchard Davis returns to the stand
tomorrow morning. Mrs. LOttie Day.
of Denver. testified that i'm 1904 Or
chard told her about the loss Of the
Hercules interest and with it the
chance to support the only woman
he ever really loved" and he said he
would kill Steunenberg for the wrong
and John ID. Elliott, an old soldier,
sWore that Orchard told him on a
train in Idaho in the fall of SOS that
he was in the employ hf The mine
owners and there was a plot against
the Federation and its leaders. Cross
examination showed tho fact that FL
lott had twice been an inmate of an
insane asylum with a mind unbal-
anced by family troubles.
John NJ. O'Neili, editor Of the Min
ers' Magazine, was the only other wit
ness during the day. He testified
that Orchard came to his office early
i'm 1905. and asked for the addresses
of Governor Peabody and General
sherman Bell, whom he said should
be bumped off. O'Neill said that
he referred him to a city directory.
The state used the cross examination
Of O'Neill to make ii clear that The
magazine was the official organ Of
the Federation and expressed its
views, and to read to the jury some
sneerlng articles about the death of
,1e
he had seen Orchard at Federation
Headquarters several times, and that
steve Adams and Mrs. Adams had also
been there
The first witness Of the day was
Mrs. Lottie Day. who knew Orchard
AT the Belmont rooming house in
Denver under the name of J. Demp-
sey.
Mrs. Day said that she met orchard
Just prior to the convention of the
Western Federation of Miners in
1904
once while she was talking. to him,
HAYWOOD and a man named McDon-
aid. who was also connected WIN the
Federation came in. Orchard intro
fuced her to Haywood and then went
away with him
Mrs. Dav said that she was first
summoned by the state and later by
the defense.
The witness related a conversation
with Orchard when the latter told her
that poverty had separated him from
the one woman he loved and that
Governor Steunenberg was responsible
for his being poor. and that he would
get even with Steunenberg II IL was
the last act of his life.
She also testified that Orchard t"la