Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-23
Richardson Repeats Threats
Against Steunenberg Orchard
Alleged to Have Made
ARGUES At GREAT LENGTH
Attorney FOR the Defense Reverts to
the Bradley Explosion to Recall
/, Parts Of the Testimony-orchard
! Satisfied With What Bradley Got
: Richardson's Voice Affected.


ment in the Haywood trial this NOR
ming Attorney Richardson reverted to
the Bradley explosion in San Francisco
briefly, to call attention to the testl-
mony of the witness, who, said Or
chard declared, Bradley got what was
coming to him There's chap named
Steunenbe,.g who is going to get MIS-.
The attorneys voice was quite husky
today as q. result of yesterdays eff
fort.
Tracing Orchard back to Denver,
where he made second attempt on
the life of the Governor Peabody, Rich
ardson declared that absolutely no cor
roboration had been offered to Or
chard's story of setting q bomb un-
Ger the sidewalk; and its failure to ex-
piode because of the coal cart driving
across the wire. The attorney also de-
clalreu no sufficient explanation had
been offered as to why Orchard aban-
doned from time to time his attempts
on the lives OF Peabody, Goddard, Cab
bert, Bell and Hearne.
DO you suppose, gentlemen OF the
jury" asked Richardson, that If a
murderous inner circle of the West
ern Federation of Miners had marked
these men for death and had hired an
assassins to do their work that they
would been SO easily, and without ap-
parent cause, deferred from carrying
out their design? Do you imagine they
would stop until their purpose had
been accomplished?
when you consider all the testi-
mony in this case think you Will
reach, with me, the conclusion that
this man Orchard was possessed OF q
mania. to go out and kill. s>Sometimes
his lust was greater than at others;
so it was that sometimes he was strong
in his purpose and sometimes he Wav-
cred. His testimony shows desul-
tory. maniacical method Of pursuing
the victims selected for death, for some
fancied grievance against him, or per-
haps, the organization to which he
belonged. Why, gentlemen, Orchards
is the most obsurd story on the face
of the earth"
..He says there never was any fixed
amount to be paid him for given
was told not to take too much as he
could get more whenever he wanted 1t.
In the light OF this testimony what be-
come OF Hawley's opening statement to
YOU that the federation had a scale OF
prices for crime, so much being fixed
for murder of a governor, 50 much Tor
q Judge, or 30 much for common La
borer?'
Richardson called attention to the
measreness of Governor Peabody's tes-
tinony when he appeared as witness
and exclaimed in stentorian voice:
will you men Of the jury put a hal
ter about the neck Of this man on such
testimony as this, and send him to his
death at the behest of the mine owners
association and It's representatives? 1t
will be long ttme tell you, before
the law will sanction the conviction on
any such evidence ais has been here
adduced."
Richardson said the defense was
ready and willing to admit that Or
chard accomplished the taking off Of
Steunenberg in the manner described
By him on the witness stand.
'rDay after day the opportunity was
presented, but rather than shoot the
man, whose giant stature" the attor-
ney said, Offered target as big as the
side OF a barn door, Orchard planted
a bomb and planned the deed so it
might attract the greatest amount Of
attention.
Richardson asserted that Orchard
had a motive against Steunenberg for
a real or fancied loss Of his interest in
the Hercules mine. thru being driven
out Of the Couer d'Alenes. AS to the
disappearance Of Jack simpkins. fol-
lowing the death Of steunenberg, Rich
ardson, said he too, would have fed
to hiding under similar circumstances.
altho there was not an iota of evidence
to connect him CSimpkins) with the
crime Sirnpkins had had one exper-
fence in the Idaho bull pen and his only
"a afety was In flight