Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-06-06
ORCHARD CONK>>yES
HIS GRUES6N! ACCOUNT
Of AWFUL CRIMES
Alleoes That Federation Officials Con-
sDired to Cause Many Deaths But
Admits That He and Others
Did Killing.
Casing OF BIG BOMB IS PRODUCED BY PROSECUTION
Witness Says 1t Was Made in PettboneS Basement ana
Placed Under House Occupied by Gov.
Peabody at Canon City.

gave me 500 before he returned to
Canon City with the bomb"
On the way to Canon City, COM
panion heard a clock ticking in the |
grip with the bomb and wanted to
know what 1t was.
81 told him joklngly," said Or
chard, that it was a bomb | was go |
ing to put under Peabody If 1 get the |
chance"
When I reported this conversation |
to Pettibone he told me that l had |
better not try it on Peabody that |
| time. |
"Pettibone and then prepared a |
/ bomb for Judge Gabbert. |
Killed Wrong Man.
1--WE planted it in a vacant lot which |
Gabbert crossed on way home. We
! left the wire out of the bomb and to
! this we intended fastening a pocket |
! book, the idea being that Gabbert
would pick up the purse and upset
a bottle of sulphite acid inside the
bomb
"As Judge Gabbert started out one
| morning | fastened the pOcketbook
to the wire and rode off down town
on a bicycle. An hour later man
named VALLEY picked up the pocket
book and was killed"
! Pettibone said this was hard
luck" according to Orchard.
Denver Operations stopped.
Orchard testified that he and Petit
bone next tried to shoot General
Sherman Bell, but before they had
: chance. President Meyer arrived in
Denver, having been released from
Jail at Telluride, and he ordered OPP
erations in Denver stopped, saying
that he had work outside, which was
more important.
Steunenberg's Murder.
The witness then got down to the
Steunenberg case. He said this muir
der was suggested by Haywood.
HE thought that after we got
him." continued the witness. after
letting him go seven or eight years,
and then went back to Patterson n.
J., and wrote letters to Judge Cab
! bert, Peabody, Bell and others, telling
them that they would get the same
thing as Steunenberg, 1t would have
a good effect
"Moyer said that 1t would be better
! than killing them orchard said he
! then went to Idaho, but a recess was
taken for noon before he told of the
} assassination of Steunenberg.
Haywood's Successor III Boise.
James Kirwan, acting secretary and
! treasurer of the Western Federation
of Miners during the enforced absence
of Haywood, arrived in Boise from
Denver this morning.
He came in response to telegram
I from James II. Hawley. senior coun-
sci for the state.
D Kirwan was served with a tele-
S graphic subpoena some weeks ago
r 81 was advised" he said today,
e that the service of such a subpoena
b is illegal, but to show that 7 have
nothing to conceal. / informed the
t prosecution that I would come to
0 Boise whenever IT desired my pres
ence."
Haywood's Wife and Daughters
!, Present,
fha
s weeks of tedious labor spent in Sc
2. curing the jury Events are crowd
K ing rapidly to the front and lest in
n terest lag James Wood has ordered
e that court shall convene at In the
e forenoon.
a Boise truned out to the limit of the
spacious courtroom today to hear the
arraigu ment of the federation Of
I ficials as pronounced i'm Orchard 5
> | testimony. Every available foot of
space was utilized and the aisles were
O filled by late comers. In the audi
= ence was a large sprlnkling Of wo-
men. the bright cOlors of whose dress
es gave a pleasing effect to the scene
of somber portent.
l. Haywood occupied his usual place
= at the left of his counsel, and by his
u side sat his invalid wife, whose faith
n has never faltered. With here We're
a nurse and her two daughters.
The city is crowded with strangers.
t representatives, Of newspapers. min
. ers and kindred classes who are in
o terested in the case.
d Steunenberg's son Attends.
e Julian p. Steunenberg. the 2l-year-
old son of the dead governor. who is
+ constantly in attendance, was one of
= the first witnesses in this case. As
j. the stalWart. brOadshouldered young
= man, with blonde hair, walked to the
!, witness chair, which is almost in the
! center OF the big room, all eyes were
turned upon him.
o He made firm replies 70 all the
S questions put to him and looked from
s time to time at Haywood, who re-
turned the gaze intently. There was
n no hint of feeling, however, in the
d look of either
% chard i'm Caldwell some days prior 70
n his fathers assassination. Orchard
i whom he knew as Hogan asked
l. many questions, the young man said
as TO the habits Of Governor Steunen-
a berg.
/, Prosecutions Intentions.
with the latitude We have secured
I'm presenting evidence, said Prose
. cutOr ]. II. Hawley, Eve will show
. that the leaders who comprised thi.
= inner circle have traded in blood and
: employed hired assassins 10 take life
: and destroy property as their Inter
!. ests seemingly dictated.
: we Will snow thal the men " u,
: composed the inner circle have tOi
: more than eight years made a record
I Of deeds of violence and that theis
: chosen methods and course and Gus
! tom have left a trail OF blood in the
I mining sections OF this entire cOuu-
! try where they have had control"
8 II might well have been a Colorado
. court where this scene is being en-
5 acted Most of the principals are
) Colorado men, and the testimony OF
) Orchard. outside Of the assassination
J of Steunenberg deals with events In
; the industrial history Of the centen-
nial state