The San Francisco call., 1907-06-07

there ran throughout the narrative ac-
counts OF conversations with Haywood,
Meyer and Pettibone, in which they
planned the killing OF this or that man
whom they accused of standing in the
way OF their purposes or OF being an
tagonistic to the interests of the west
ern federation of miners. Often they
talked Of crimes that had been COM
mitted or Of attempts that had been
made and had failed. Failures they
discussed as they would have spoken
Of missed shots at billiards
Hard luck" was the chief comment.
Too bad. better luck next time" To
XIII a man was to get rid of him" or
TO get him out OF the way" Murder"
they seem TO have held in aversion, but
assassination" they took to with kind
~ feeling. Again and again in his
narrative Orchard used the words, they
wanted me to go and see if l couldn't
assassinate" Peabody or Moffatt or
Johnny Neville, his old friend. or Sher-
man Bell. Judge Gabbert or Judge
Goddard, or whoever il might be who
happened to be the focus OF their ami
mostly at the moment
And what hairbreadth escapes some
OF these men had Orchard told yes
terday OF several attempts on the life
OF Governor Peabody of Colorado. This
morning he recited the most drastic in
cident In all his story when he told of
another effort 70 kill Peabody that
came so near to success that a great
sigh of relief pervaded the courtroom
when II was ended. He told how ne
and Billy Ackerman planted bomb,
made like that which blew up the nom
union men at Independence, and lay in
wait to pull the wire that was TO eX-
plode il when the governor stepped on
the ground where IL was buried They
saw him leave his home and walk to-
~1aI 1,A fra
ready TO pull
INNOCENT MAN KILLED
But a single instant separated Pea
body from death. In that instant
numbering coal wagon rolled out of an
alley and over the wire. They couldn't
pull. and when the weight of the
wagon was removed so that they could
Peabody was over the bomb and safe.
So il was with Chief Justice Gabbert.
The witness told how he saw the Judge
leave his home and start on his accus-
toned path down TO his Office. Orchard
hurried ahead, and where the usual
bomb had been buried carefully fast
ened 70 the wire hook that led to the
acid bottle which was TO set off the
dynamite the pocketbook that was 10
be the lure If Gabbert saw that purse
lying squareIy in his path and tried 70
nick IT up death would be the inevitable
result. But something turned the judge
out of the accustomed path into an
other, and it was IAN innocent man.. as
Orchard described him, who tried 10
pick I'D the pocketbook and was blown
70 pieces.
Hour after hour the wondering.
tense crowd heard the story nodded
all on the same lines, told all in the
same simple, Straightforward, convinc-
ing way. But toward the close there
was a change Only in an incidental
fashion did il come out but neverthe-
less il did appear that at last this hu-
man murder machine sickened Of his
terrible trade. He began to think and
plan Of the time when he would be
through with his CHASTITY work. He
wanted to secure q place TO hide OUT
when il was all over.
ORCHARD WANTS A FARM
What made Orchard think that there
would ever come such time he did
not disclose From every talk that he
had with the directors of the grand
scheme Of assassination in which he
was enlisted there appeared only new
names of those marked for slaughter
and added lists OF victims yet to be
dealt with. But somehow the idea grew
I'D in his mind that there was an end
for him Of the bloody calling. He
talked with Haywood and Pettiboue
about il, and when he was in Wallace,
on his way TO the last of his string of
murders, he told Jack Simpkins of his
hope TO get ranch somewhere out in
this country where he could bury him
self and get away from crime.
In all the talks with the overseers
and architects Of his work that Orchard
recounted both yesterday and today.
Haywood stands out as the iron man,
Unsuitable Of blood, vindictive, savage,
-evengeful, who never thought of stop
ping and never reckoned of conse-
ouence. 1t was kill, kill, kill with him,
kill and never cease.
So. too, with Pettibone, who even on
occasion went out to join in the execu-
ton of the murderous plans. He had
no thought Of anything but that of
blood There was no sign of weakness
in him, as there was none in Haywood.
MoYER THE wEAKLING
Tt was Moyer who showed the only
Indication Of softness in ali the brutal
story. Meyer had been in jail. He had
been arrested times enough. His
health was bad, and when after an
found plans under way for murders
there at home he interposed and for
bade them.
GO somewhere else" said Meyer.
Kill some other man. If anything is
pulled off here I shall be arrested, and
4 have been in Jail enough" So they
gave up the design on which they had
been working and Haywood remem-
bered Steunenberg.
Go get him." he ordered to Orchard.
I'VE have sent after him times enough
and failed. Now. you get him"
And the obedient murderer did as he
was told. 1t was the murder of
Steunenberg that brought out the only
sign of feeling Orchard has given In
all his hours on the witness stand
That story shook him up. AS he told
II his voice grew lower and lower and
there was 6. softness In his eyes that
suggested once or twice the verge of a
breakdown
But the witness carried il through
and in two minutes after II was ended
was back in his easy way, undisturbed
as ever, talking of murder and blood
letting as if they were the vocations
of 2 summer afternoon.
IMPROVES MURDER ART
The story showed today how Orchard