Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-11
THE DEFENCE SCORES.
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why did you want to save the train
men?"
Sherman Parker said that one of the
men on the train had been good wit
ness for him in the trials and he did
not want to hurt him."
You expected to kill 80 men that
nisht?'
| Il don't know how many"
Orchard said that after the eXplo-
sion he went to Denver, TO Jack Simp-
kins' room. Haywood and Pcttibone
came in later and said with Simpkins
| that it had been a fine job.
Had they given you any instruc-
items about the affair."
No, sir"
| What did they say?''
Haywood asked how much money |
wanted. Hc said not to take too much;
that | could get more at any time
wanted it,
! Orchard said there was no particular
agreement about the Independence de-
pot. He blow it up as part of his gen
| cral instructions to Go ahead and
cut things loose
| He had been getting money right
along, but thought he could get more
| after doing the Independence depot
| job.
| After reporting in Denver about the
Independence explosion. Orchard said
he started on a campaign and hunting
trip to Wyoming.
when YOU left for Wyoming it was
your purpose to locate there wasn't it?''
Yes"
And You believed you were leaving
Colorado for gcod?"
"POssib]y.''
Orchard said he told his Colorado
wifo that he would write to her.
Asked if the Pinkcrtons had taken
care of her since that time, Orchard
said he didn't know.
During the Cripple Creek strike she
drew relief money regularly as min
ers wife She also got other money
than the relief, Orchard asserted.
Orchard said Haywood had promised
to buy him ranch when he got
through in Colorado. He thought the
promise was made ut the time he went
to Denver to body guard Meyer on his
trip to Ouray.
Orchard had testified previously that
he sent Pat Moran from Cheyenne to
Denver to get $500 from PettibOne. To
day Orchard said. he had not met Pat
Moran until he went to Cheyenne. Or
chard said there could be no mistake
about Pat Moran. He was a saloon
keeper and the only man he knew in
cheyenne. Moran had worked for Pet
tibcre and the latter had told Orchard
to call on Moran if he stopped off in
| Cheyenne.
Moran, according to dispatches from
"hC ycnnc, has denied that he ever
n,T I,e,,
Arriving in Cody, Orchard said he
| lost all of his muntY-mOre than 5000
in Halls gambling house. He borrowed
$50 from Hall ana returned to Denver.
This was in July, 1904. The first man
orchard saw in Denver was PcttihOnc.
FIo told The latter he had spent his
money in buving some lots in Cody.
He admitted he had lied about the mat
ter. Within i few days he got $3.50
from Pettibonc. He then met Hay
wood. who wanted him to go to Bing-
ham, Utah, to assassinatc andy
Mayberry, who had laid off a lot of
union men at his mines.
Don't YOU know that as a matter of
fact Haywood and Mayberry are and
ALWAYS have been the WarmcSt per-
sonal frienGs?" asked Atty. Richard
son.
1T may be so; didn't know it."
Orchard said he went to a man
named Art Barton, about helping III
the Mayberry assassination and then
talked further with Haywood and Pct
tihone in the iatter's back yard. They
sat there an hour or two and talked
about the crime.
At this meeting Haywood said he
would like Orchard to go to California
and get Fred Bradley. The Maybcrry
matter was abandoned.
"What was the reason for getting
l;radlcy?"
"IIaywood said lie was at tho head Of
tho Mine owners Association in Cali
fcrnia ard was raising Il fund of sew
cral thousand dollars to drive the Fed
Grafton out Of the state"
! Orchard denied that he had any
grudgc against Bradley from his cHpc-
5 ricnccs in the Occur D'Alencs.
? You wore just taking orders to Kill
from YOUR chicf?" suggested Richard
son.
, II was doing what Mr.. Haywood told
me"
Richardson asked Orchard If he did not
, have Erudge against Bradley because
: he was driven ont of northern idaho.
l
fault" said the witness
: Starting for California TO get Bradley.
; Orchard said Pcttibone bought his ticket
for him and gave him $50 and new
gripsack Bradley was in Alaska when
Orchard reached San Francisco. Orchard
heard neither from Haywood nor Mover
I while in California. but received several
letters from Pettihone. These he de-
stroyed Immediately after reading.
The first money received from Pettihono
in California was 500 which came in a
registered letter. The letter was signed
Pat Bone" Orchard received some Of
, the money in the name of Harry Green.
The witness then repeated his story
about putting strychnine in the Bradley
, family milk Orchard said he thought the
money came in the name Of Wolf. the
, next money. another 800, came BY Postal
Telegraph from Pat Bone" Did you
while YOU were in San Francisco go out
| one night to the end of the car line at
Golden Gate park and hold up a street