The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-26
FIRST DIRECT
TESTIMONY IN
HAYWOOD CASE
WILL ENDEAVOR TO SHOW Or
CHARD KILLED STEUNENBERG
OUT OF REVENGE.
ORCHARD SPY FOR DETECTIVES
Witnesses Testify Confessed MUIR
dercr Threatened the life of
Martyred Governor.

BOISE, Idaho, June 25.-The first
direct testimony in defense of Will
liam ID. Haywood was offered today
and it was chiefly directed toward
showing that Harry Orchard. blam-
ing Frank Steunenberg for the loss
of his interest in the Hercules mine,
had threatened to have revenge by
killing him, and that the conduct of
Orchard and X. S. Sterling, both be-
fore the Independence explosion.
when they were frequently seen to-
gether, and afterward. when Sterling
called off bloodhound that was fol-
| lowing Orchards trail, justified the
| inference that the mine owners in
spired the crime.
The calling of the first witness for
| the defense was preceded by fur
| ther examination of Orchard to per-
nit the defense to complete its for
NAL impeaching questions. These
| questions We're nearly all in connec-
| tion with the claim that Orchard
| killed Steunenberg because of an al
legged grudge growing out of the sale
of his interest in the Hercules mine
Orchard, who came into court un-
der the protection of the same fly
ing squadron of guards that always
act as his escort, maintained his old
calmnesS of manner, and spoke in
the same low-pitched, soft tone. He
again denied that he ever threatened
to kill Steunenberg because of the
Hercules mine; again asserted that
he sold his interest in the mine two
years before the trouble that drove
him out of northern Idaho.
Two witnesses called later in the
day swore that Orchard did threaten
| to kill Steunenberg because of the
Hercules matter and the defense has
prepared the way for such testimony
| from dozen or more witnesses. The
two heard today were II. r. Redd,
| once of Cripple Creek, but now of
Goldfield, Nevada, and the other
Charles A. Sullivan, formerly of
Cripple Creek, and now a watchman
in the Brown Hotel in Denver. Redd
said he heard Orchard make the
statement and threat in the Miners
hall in Cripple Creek, and Sullivan
sWore that while he and Orchard
were fellow boarders at John Ne
villes place in Cripple Creek, Or
| chard repeatedly said that but for
Steunenberg he would be a rich man
ana that he intended to kill him. The
cross-eXamination showed that both
were members of the Western Fede-
ration of Miners and that Sullivan
was friend of Haywood, Meyer and
many of the union leaders at Grip
pie Creek.
DR., l. l.. McGee, mining broker
of the Occur d'Alenes. another i'm
peaching witness, swore that Orchard
told him in 1904 at Wallace, Idaho.
that he was 'spotter'' for a de-
tective agency. Orchard denied this
conversation, denied that he was in
Idaho at any time in 1904.
Several witnesses, principally
women, who kept lodging houses at
Cripple Creek, located Orchard at
various conferences with Sterling,
| the detective for the Mine Owners
| association, prior to the Gndepend-
ence explosion, and there was a fur
ther showing as to meetings between
Orchard and d. c. Scott, the detec-
tive for the Florence and Cripple
Creek railway. Another witness told
| of the efforts to locate the men gull
ty of the independence station out
rage by starting q bloodhound from
the chair rung pulled out of the ex-
plosion. He said the dog took the
road to Colorado Springs, the one
over which Orchard fled in the night
and that when he reported to Sterl-
ing, he got orders from Sterling to
call off the dog Sterling said he
knew who blew up the station and
later said that Steve Adams had
done so.
The state fought the admission of
the bloodhound story and also OPP
posed the admission of evidence COW
ering general features of the Colo
RADIO labor war, but in both instances
the court ruled with the defense.