Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-07-04
DENIED BY DAVIS
Harry Orchards Story Ii Beinl
Torn to Pieces by the Hay
wood Defense.
OTHERS HEARD THREATS
One Witness Testified orchard Said
He Wac In Employ Of Mine Own:
ers and Plotted Against
Federation.

| boise, lnano, June zf.--Wltlam n
Davis Of Goldfield, New, one Of the
most important witnesses for the dc
Tense Of VIM. D. Haywood, accused
Of the murder of Frank SteunenberG
was called to the stand at noon Wed.
nesday and his cross-examination had
not been completed when court ad.
journed. Harry Orchard testified
that Davis led and commanded the
mob that destroyed the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan mill In 1899, inspired,
az the agent of Haywood and Meyer,
the Vlndicator explosion and the train
wrecking plot at Cripple Creek. and
was an accomplice in the Independ.
ence 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
voIved him or 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 Grip
pie Creek during the strike Orchard
told him Of the Hercules mine affair
and threatened to kill Steunenberg.
The REORGANIZATION Of Davis by
Senator Borah was severe and search
ing and was chiefly devoted as far as
1t proceeded with the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan affair and the circumstances
under which Orchard made the threat
against Steunenberg. Davis asserted
that he remained at 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 "bull
pen" and that he changed his name
when he departed for Butte shortly
after because he feared the mine own
ers' blacklist made up from petition
that the employees Of the Bunker Hill
had sent to Governor Mcconnell pro-
testing against the unsafety of the
mine. Borah showed that the petit
ton had been presented six years be-
fore and that Butte was federation
camp where the blacklist was ineffec-
tive. Passing to the threat Orchard
made against Steunenberg the witness
was unable to recall what anyone else
had said on that occasion except the
words OF Orchard. Davis returns to
me stand Thursday morning. I,
Mrs. Lottie Day Of Denver testified
that in 1904 Orchard told her about !
the loss Of the Hercules interest and
with It the chance to support the only ,
woman he ever really loved" and that :
he said he would kill Steunenbere :
'or the wrong done him; and John D. 4
elliott, an old soldier. swore that Or +
,hard told him on q train in Idaho
n the fall Of 1905 that he was in the
,mploy Of the mine owners and that
here was a plot against the fedora
ion and Its leaders. Crossexamlna- !,
ion showed the fact that Elliott had
vice been an inmate Of an insane
lsylum with a mind unbalanced by !,
amily troubles.
John M. o'Neill, editor fthe Min
RS Magazine, was the only other wit !.
less during the day. He testified that
orchard came to his office early in =
905 aud asked for the addresses Of
Governor Peabody and General SheE a
nan Bell, whom he said would be II
bumped of" o'Neill said that he re- n
erred Orchard to a city directory u
he state used the crCss-examlnatlon
I O'Neill to make It clear that the t
Magazine was the official organ Of 9
he federation and expressed its views NJ
nd to read to the jury some sneering CT
rticles about the death Of Steun- n
nberg. o'Neill also said that he had b
cen Orchard at Federation headquar- 81
prs several times and that Steve Ia
dams and Mrs Adams had also been al
here. cl
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