The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-06-13
WASHINGTON THURSDAY,
M'PARLAND TALKED SCRIPTURE TO ORCHARD IN JAIL
ORCHARD TELLS OF ARREST
AND EXPERIENCE WITH DE.
TECTIVE-HE SENT TO sPo-
KANE FOR FRED MILLER.
(scripps News Associasinn.1

BOISE, June 13.-Wnen the hay
wood trial was resumed this morn
ing Richardson at once plunged into
a series Of questions designed to
bring out every detail Of Orchards
movements just prior to the Steun-
enberg tragedy. 1t was plain he de-
sired to impress the jury with the
fact that Orchard was broke and,
realizing that his former partners
in the Occur d'Alene district had
made fortunes which he would
have participated in if he had not
had to leave the state because of
Steunenberg, had cause to murder
Steunenberg without suggestion
from, any one
When asked If he hadn't told
Jack Moffet in Wallace that he was
going TO Puget Sound to smuggle
opium into the country, Orchard
said no. he thought he might have
said something about a smuggling
proposition, but couldn't remember.
Before he and Simpkins started
for St. Joe the latter gave him 800,
which he claimed was sent by Hay
wood. He admitted borrowing SIS
from a saloon keeper, Murphy, in
Burke, and then that night broke
open his cash register and stole $40.
Before reaching the st. Joe
country he and Simpkins went to
Spokane and stayed days. They
then went on to st. Joe and hunt
ed for a week.
Simpkins, he declared, told him
he would go with him to kill Steun-
enberg and would give as an ex-
cuse for being in southern Idaho
that he was going officially to visit
the federation local at Silver City.
He and S!mpkins then went direct
to Caldw
Orchard stayed there 3 weeks
while Simpkins went to Silver City
and HALEY to visit federation To-
calls there. He made no attempt
to concea! himself, and went on the
streets freely, but denied any at
tempt to attract attention to him
self. Simpkins, he declared, did
not keep from being noticed while
in Caldwell.
Orchard said he wrote to Easterly
and received letters, which he
tore up, hut it is understood the de-
tectives recovered part of one OF
them. He made trips to Nampa,
where he hoped to meet Simpkins
by appointment. The letter making
this date is also in the hands OF
the prosecution.
Simpkins, Orchard swore, got
"cold feet" when the actual killing
was discussed, claiming he was so
well known he would get into trou-
BILE. Before going he and Simpkins
made a bomb. using wooden cases,
but after Simpkins went away
Orchard took it apart and made an
other with metal cases. He then
called Easterly up by telephone at
Silver City and asked him to come
to Caldwell and help.
Easterly, he swore, had been told
by Simpkins of the plot to kill
Steunenberg, and Easterly told him
he couldn't come then.
About this time a photographer
started a flashlight in the court
TOOIl, boTdH anu hlCudTuSOu DOtu
jumped and deputies and detectives
dropped their hands to their guns,
but laugh followed as the reason
for the noise became apparent.
Orchard said he chose bombs in
stead of revolver for killing be-
cause he was so disguised with
himself he wanted to finish the job
and get away. He went to Nampa
once with the bomb, intending to
put it under a train seat and blow
the car to pieces. but didn't get the
chance. The fact that many others
might have been killed by the ex-
plosion made no impression on him.
When he finally exploded the
bomb 1t went off before he had
planned and he was compelled to
run in order to get to the hotel so
he could prove an alibi. He denied
that as soon as the Steunenberg
bomb exploded he wen> to his bed
room in order to put things around
to prove he had not made the
bomb, but said he was trying to re-
! move all traces of his crime ana
! had cayenne pepper with him to