The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
REACH SIBJNENBERGCR|NE
ss.ExAMiNATloN OF OR.
CHARo NEARs END.
POINTING OUT DISCREPANCIES
Attorney for Defense AssaiIs Test.
mony and Theory OF State Resting
Upon lt--Witness Tells OF Plot to
kldnap Paulson Children.

Boise. Ida, June l3.-The defense
carried the Cross-eXaminatiun OF llar.
ny Orchard down to the actual crime
charged against William ID. Haywood
the murder Of Frank Steunonbcrg-
and, as 1t progressed, assailed the
testimony and the theory of the state
resting upon II. Counsel for the de.
Tense directed their efforts to an at.
tempt to cloud the earlier purposes
and movements of Orchard with un.
certainty and Indebtedness. Then
they emphasized the abandonment
Of all effort to XIII after orchard first
traced Steunenberg to hotel In Boise
and with skeleton key had gained
entrance to the very room In which
the governor was living Here they
delayed for IA moment to prove that
Orchard twice wrote and once tele-
phOnCd to Bill Easterly at Silver CITY
to urge him to come and join in the
crime, and the direct implication was
that Orchard was endeavoring to in.
veigle another federation man into
the crime, which would bring discredit
and dishonor to the organization.
Plot to kidnap Paulson Children.
Then the Steunenborg crime was
temporarily thrust into the back.
ground and the witness was carried
over his long journey into northern
Idaho, and his crimes there. including
the dark plot to kidnap and hold for
ransom the PaulsOn children. were
forceiully emphasized. Orchard swore
that David Coates. former lieutenant
governor OF Colorado and then pub.
Usher in Wallace, Ida, first suggested
the kidnapping to Pettibone and him.
self at Denver. Paulson, once n poor
miner. had made fortune in the Her
cules mine in which Orchard held an
interest when the property was value
less, and II was believed that II his
children were stolen he would come
through with $4,000 or 100000 in
ransom"
Orchard said that when he went to
northern Idaho he got Jack Simp-
kns to come in on the plot, and to.
gether they went to Coates to renew
the scheme.
Coates, who was in court, was
asked to stand up for identification.
and facing him, Orchard said he was
the man. Orchard was then asked IL
he had not himself proposed the crime
to Coates, who Immediately rebuffed
him. and If Jack Simpkins had not
warned Paulson the minute he heard
Of the plot. Orchard denied both sug'
gestions, reiterating his first story
insisted that Coates had consented to
stay in the plot and handle the money
that they hoped to get from Paulson.
Series of Mean Crimes.
Then the defense showed the wit
ness in the commission Of a series OF
mean crimes and reduced to poverty,
in which he had to resort to a pawn,
shop, borrowing and theft to live for
a long period. First he pawned ssme
iewelry and guns. This brought him
S25 or So. Then with man named
Cunningham, whom he said Vincent
st. John had recommended to him as
safe and tri d. he discussed project
to give Cunningham the old Peabody
bomb, which he still had in his trunk,
for use by Cunningham on some non
union men that were at the Tiger and
Poorman mine. Then he accepted the
hospitality of Paulson's home, at the
very time he was plotting to steal the
Paulson children. After that, with
Jack Simpkins. he broke into the Ore.
gon railway station. They were after
a trunk full OF jewelry samples, but
instead got trunk full of shoe sam.
pies. Next he tapped cash register
at Burke for $50 or $40,
1t was long period Of crime and
poverty and hard luck, and, summing
il up the defense wanted TO know
why, If he were in Idaho on mission
of murder for Haywood, Meyer and
Pettibone, and with unlimited credit
from them, he did not send to them
for more money instead OF borrowing
and stealing. Orchard replied that he
did send a letter TO Meyer at Butte
and got 800, but he did not send for
more because he was temporarily off
the Steunenberg murder errand and
away from where Steunenberg lived,
and he did not want TO send for more
money until he could show that he
was back to work.
Denies Personal Enmity.
Lastly there came a showing that
Orchard had borrowed $500 from Paul.
son, whose children he had gone north
to steal, on the strength of fraudu'
lent story that he was going to Los
Angeles to sell mining stock for
Coates, and that this was the money
that actually paid his expenses when
he went back to Caldwell on the final
mission OF murder. Swiftly reviewing
his meetings with his old partners.
who had meantime become rich, the
defense asked the witness If, disap'
pointed and angered at his own hard
luck in selling out the Hercules mine,
when Steunenberg sent troops into
north Idaho, he had not suddenly de.
cided to borrow enough money from
Paulson to take him to Caldwell,
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