The San Francisco call., 1907-06-14


"And talks with you in a very friendly
Yes,
..Now. you know from his manner to you
that he intends you shall be hanged?''
He has never told me anything of the
''But you know from his manner that he re-
CARDS you as a friend?
.'He has told me he thought I was doing
right and doing great thing for the state and
country
MCFARLAND NOT TUTOR
Orchard denied that he ate his meals at the
warden's home or that he ever had wine with
his meals His food to him from the
warden's kitchen.
Orchard was questioned at length about his
written confession. He said that he wrote
two, having left some OF his misdeeds out of
the first.
Orchard denied that he had ever been nut in
a chair and been examined and cross examined
by the attorneys for the state in preparation
for the trial.
Parland had not instructed the witness to
his demeanor on the stand the position to oc.
counsel when questioning him. etc. Orchard
denied all.
Richardson questioned the witness for 15
minutes regarding his personal adornment'' Cor
the trial. Orchard said that his new suit of
clothes was made by convict in the peniten-
tiary. His new shoes. hat and linen were
he sometimes wears is borrowed from the war
den.
treated at the penitentiary.
You know Bob Wedder at the penitentiary7 ~
HE was sentenced to death and the date
of his execution fixed when you spoke to Gov
ernor Gooding of him and had his sentence
commuted to life imprisonment
SAVES wEDDER's LIFE
az talked to the governor about. wedder and
said felt sorry. for him. / did not believe
stay something might turn up to show him
in different light"
Wedder's sentence subsequently was COM
muted by Governor Gooding.
Here ended the long cross examination. 1t
had been in Just one .s week Attorneys
mission to examine Orchard few minutes more
when certain of their impeaching witnesses
sented to this, with the proviso that they should
reserve their redirect examination until the de-
The state at once entered upon its plan of
corroborating Orchards testimony taking up the
San Francisco, Mrs. Sadie Swan, who. as
Sadie Bell. being at that time unmarried,
employed in the Bradley household at 1404
met Orchard at the grocery store opposite the
Bradley home He was going under the name
Mrs Grove. the Bradley cook. he sometimes
came TO the house to deliver groceries.
door one morning. ing Bradley tasted It and or
dered that it should not be used. This
wseh Ge
put strychnine in the milk. After the ex-
plosion Mrs. Swan said that she never saw
Orchard again in San Francisco -
When the witness was turned over to the
defense for examination Attorney Richard
swan be stricken out as having nothing to do
with connecting the defendant Haywood with
Orchard is not on trial here" said Richard
son. This is not the kind Of corroborative evil
dence the law calls for"
Judge Wood denied the motion and an excep-
ton was noted
ORCHARD CORROBORATED
cross examination Of Mrs. Swan. He asked her
If Mrs. Grove. the cook whom Orchard is said
TO se 20 Said s d no b
had been. She gave Darrow Mrs. Groves ad
dress in San Francisco Mrs. Swan could not
recall the day OF the week that the explosion
occurred or the day of the bitter milk episode.
The witness did not remember who was serving
malk at the house at this time, but thought that
Mrs. Swan said that she got the morning paper
from the front door about 20 minutes before the
The next witness called was o. Crook. the
milkman. Crooks name appeared on the wit
Richardson, who objected to Crooks testimony
being taken. The objection was oyerruled.
Crook said that he was called to the Bradley
the milk that morning was bad and bitter. He
took quart of the milk to the city chemist of
Ss san tTancisco he ascertained from the chemist
to say what the chemist told him.
Crook said that the Bradley milk the only
milk complained OF the morning indicated.
motion to strike out Crooks testimony on
the same grounds urged against Mrs Swans was
also denied by Judge Wood There but
brief cross examination.
Next on the stand P. L. McCleary of
Berkeley. Cal, who assistant city chemist of
San Francisco analyzed the Bradley milk He
found from 40 to 60 grains of strychnine in the
quart of milk.
How much strychnine causes death?"
sOne-half grain has been known TO kill In IL
minutes. Usually two or three grains are con-
sidered sufficient"
The usual motion to strike out the testimony
as immaterial and not connecting Haywood with
the offense charged denied.
few questions were put In cross examination.
and when the witness excused court was
adjourned until tomorrow morning at $50 O clock