Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-05
: SSSs'V WOODS DEFENSE IS
n ACT|CALLY
\ ySHED
President Meyer VIII Go on
Stand Tonight or
Tomorrow For
Defense.
ORCHARD LETTERS
EXPLAINED TODAY
Written Evidence introduced to
Prove That a Conspiracy Existed
Between State Officials and
Others to Destroy Min
erS' Union.


in the trial of William d. Haywood
is nearing the end of its case. Presi-
dent Meyer will go on the stand late
this afternoon or tomorrow morning
Six witnesses this morning closed up
the loose ends in the net of contra
diction In which it is hoped that
Harry Orchard may be entangled.
Written evidence was introduced to
show that a conspiracy existed be-
tween the Mine Owners Association,
Citizens Alliance, governor and
militia of Colorado, and the Pinker-
ton detective agency, all seeking to
destroy the Western Federation OF
Miners.
One Witness Killed.
When the Haywood trial was re-
| sumed at 10 a. m, the defense Of
| fered as its first witness Marion w.
Moore, of McCabe, Ariz., a member
of the executive board of the West
ern Federation of Miners.
AS Moore took the stand, Attorney
Clarence Rarrow announced that an
| other member of the executive board,
Frank Schneider, was killed in Den
yer night before last while boarding
train to come to Boise, as a wit
| ness.
Moore Knew Orchard.
| Owing to this unfortunate circum-
stance, Darrow said, the defense
might be compelled to ask one days
| delay a little later on as 1t would be
necessary to secure. from various 9TH
er sources, the testimony expected
| from Schm elZer.
| Moore was asked as to the circum.
stances under whicir' he agreed tC
take a letter to Alaska for Harry Or
| chard, and to mail 1t from Nome to
the second Mrs. Orchard in Colorado
Moore said that he first met Or
chard in Denver in May, 1904. 81
was sitting on a bench in the court
| introduced himself, saying that hi
has seen me in Occur D'Alene," said
| Moore.
81 saw him several times after
this, once on Seventeenth street In
1905. l told him that 1 was going
to Alaska to organize a union a.
Nome. .
That Letter From Nome.
Later in the evening, Orchard
came to my room and asked If
| would mail a letter from Nome fol
him. 1t was addressed to Mrs. Harrj
Orchard
HE told me he wanted to get rio
of that woman. He said he might
| come up to Alaska later himself.
arrived in Nome on August 2, 1905
and two days later mailed the let
| ter"
On cross examination Moore SAID
that he did not inquire whether the
woman to whom the letter was ad
dressed was Orchards wife or not
Orchard referred to her as that wo'
man.
Following Moore came Mrs. Mike
Gallon, of Butte. Mont. The witness
was formerly the wife of Harry
Waters, generally known as kid
| Waters, a gun man." who was en-
ployed as detective by the Mine own.
| ers' Association in Colorado.
She testified she had seen Water
in company with d. C. Scott, LytC
| Gregory and Harry Orchard.
Barns Tcstifies.
owen Barns was the next witness
Barns was implicated by Orchard II
| the manufacture of certain bombs
Barns lost both feet while mining IL
1904. He lived in a cabin near the
Independence depot Orchard only
came there once, he said.
He denied ever having a conVersa-
ton with Orchard as to the manu-.
facture of dynamite bombs or HAVING
assisted in the manufacture of bombs
He never committed, or planned tC
commit, any act of violence with Har.
ry Orcard, he declared. Barns sait
that on the day the Independence de-
| pot explosion, June 6, 1904, he wal
attending the democratic nationa
convention in st. Louis.
PetubOne's Letter to Orchard.
| Next came Jacob Wolff, former
| clerk for George Pettibone, and ir
| whose name letters containing money
were sent to Harry Orchard in Sar
| Francisco.
Wolff said that many Colorado
! miners, when in Denver, made Petit
bones store their headquarters. He
| often made purchases for them and
| allowed them to leave bundles. etc.
in the store.
He met Orchard at the store once
| but did not remember ever having
seen Steve Adams there. He saw
| Pettibone open and read a letter In
| 1904. Later he went to the postof-
! flee and registered a letter for Petit
| bone.
What was put into that letter."
"a union card and Masonic
charm"
That's the last you saw of that
! letter."
Yes, sir"
There was no cross examination.
Because He Talked.
The defense claims that Orchard
| asked Pettibone to keep his union
| card, Masonic charm and some
money for him when he started west
in 1904. following the deportations
from Cripple Creek.
Archie Lester Harper, a young man
Just admitted to the bar in Denver,