The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
BLOW TO HAYWOOD'S DEFENCE
ORCHARD CORROB0RATED on
MANY POINTS.
Man Who Helped to BLOW Up the wsrdner
Wine Tells All About H-Festimeuy OF
several of the Defcncs's witnesses
broken Down-Defence's Case All In.

Wine Tells All About H-fcstimcuy OF
broken Down-Dcfence's Case All In.
BOISE, July 1s.-There has been a great
deal Of testimony about bombs in the course
Of the Haywood murder trial, but a real one
vas dropped in the camp Of the defsnoe
This afternoon when the State in the course
ri is rebuttsl produced a witness who
testified hat he was one Of the union miners
who went with the armed and masked mob
that stole a railroad train on April 20, 1900,
inundated the train crew n went to
Vardner, Idaho, where they blew UP tho
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill. killed two
men and drove out the non-union men in
the mill.
This man is William Dewey. He is now
a n~on-union miner and has been one since
The Cripple Creek strike. When that strike
began he left the union and has ever since
been = non-union miner with an int al
Of two years when he was serving as Lar
shal in the town of Victor In the Cripple
Creek district. At present he is employed
in the Victor mine, where Mccormick and
Beck we're killed in 1908 by a bomb which
Orchard says union leaders. including
". F. Davis, got him to plant.
Dewey told the Court and the jury that
this same ". F. Davis. better known as Big
Bill Davis. handed out arms TO the miners
in the union hall in Gem on April 20. 1909.
and that he led the men who marched on the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill when IL was
blown up; in short. hat Big Bill was the gen
eral commanding the union forces. He
fully corroboratsd everything that Orchard
sad about Davis's connection with the
Wardner outrage except in one particular.
Orchard said that Davis was not masked on
that day. while Dewey said he wore q mask.
1t may he recalled that when Big Bill took
the stand in the case to dsny that he had
hired Orchard to blow up the vindicator
mine he was c~ross-examined by Senator
Borah about the Wardner riot and murder
aud fatty denied that he went down from
Mullen to Wardner that day. The cross
examination convinced everybody In court
that Davis was lying Dewey's testimony
merely confirmed that impression. but it
lid IL in q manner that was wildly
convincing.
In addition to Dewey the State produced
witnesses who completed the destruction
NJ the value Of the testimony given by
John Elliott, who told OF hearing Orchard
say just before Steunenberg was killed that
a plot was under way to put the Western
Federation out OF business. and also Z
amined q witness who testified that another
witness who swore that Orchard was in
Mullen on the day the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill was blown up had told him
four days after that explosion that he had
not seen Orchard in over a month.
The Dewey testimony was easily the
feature Of the day. 1t was the first time
that any ono OF the oonspirators h took
part in the famous Wardner riot has told
his story publicly, with the sole exception
Of Orchard himself. Paul Corooran was
tried and convicted Of murder In the second
degree for his participation in that affair.
served part OF his term ~ was then
pardoned. Big Bill Davis lHas also in
dicted. but he skipped the country and
vas never arrested for II. He sat In court
to-day while Dewey told his story looking
az small a. possible. What viii b done
in bis case remains to be scen. He IL now
under an order OF the court not to leave
this Jurisdiction.
Lawyer Richardson went at Dewey sav-
agely on cross-examination, but he got
little satisfaction out Of him. Tbs witness
gave better than he got. Dewey said that
on the morning OF April 20. 1880. he was
in the union hall in Gem. W. F. Davis was
here.
What did he do. Mr.. Dewey7'
He was handing out guns and ammuni-'
ion
What kind Of suns''
Rifles"
What part OF the hall was he IMP"
on the platform, the far end from the
main entrance
Did you have a gum
Yes"
Who gave it to your
Davis"
Where did you go them
Down to the station. Sons one hollered
An nhoardl' and we all got on and went
to Wardner. After w got to Kellogg 1
saw Davis on the train
What WIS he doing1'
He was getting the men in order to
march out to the mill. He was giving them
directions"
What kind Of dlrections2'
The first l remember was 'An long guns
to the 'front.' They started on. and Davis
at their head. When they got to me I fell
IN, too"
You had a long gIin?'
Yes, sir, I went nearly to the mill
Did you see Davis there2'
Yes, sir; the column halted near the mill
and six or eight at the head OF the column
made a rush for the mill. The rest OF them
made no move. Davis was one h rushed
Tor The mill"
Did you stay till the mill was blown up?"
Yes, SIR"
Did YOU sre Davis again that day?"