The San Francisco call., 1907-06-12


prevent your shooting him on the
street, was there?
IF it looked good to US about get
ting away we could have shot him.
replied Orchard
We'll, why didn't you go up and ring
the bell and call him out and then
shoot him?''
I'VE were teo cowardly them said
Orchard.
That is about the only reference that
he has made to his changed views, ex-
cept for the one response yesterday.
You wouldn't permit any other man
to call you cowardly, would your"
pursued Richardson.
Il call those things I did all very
cowardly now," replied Orchard. with
more show of feeling, both in voice
and manner, than he has given at any
other period of his story except when
telling of the killing of Steunenberg
and for moment when he was telling
of the poisoning of the Bradley milk.
The witness went on with perfect
GOODNESS in a moment, however, and
told how he had abandoned the at
tempt on Gabbert at the orders of
Haywood and Pettibone, when Hay
wood set him to work on Peabody
again.
And there Richardson paved the way
for one of the hardest answers he got
during the day. They were talking
about the Peabody-Adams contest over
the governorship of Colorado. and
Richardson said:
You know that Haywood was stat
ing openly that it made no difference
to the western federation whether
Adams or Peabody was governor, don't
your
RICHARDSON BEATEN BACK
Yes, but he talked very differently
to u.s." replied Orchard. He used to
say good many things in public that
ne didn't say when he was talking
things over with u.s.
But you never advertised that diff
ference until you met MCFARLAND, did
you2" sneered Richardson.
Never until I made up my mind to
quit that business and do what was
right" said Orchard
Richardson pounded away for time
against the subject Of the money that
Orchard had received that winter from
Haywood and Pettibone, trying to show
that IL was very little. Orchard admit
ted that he got only $50 himself, and
that from Pettibone, but insisted that
Steve Adams, who was then conducting
that end of the business, got the money
for them all. it having been agreed that
orchard should lie very low because
OF what he had done at Independence
and should not go to town except at
night.
Finally Richardson developed the
fact that Orchard had moved to Globe
Vile, Denver suburb, after Billy Ack.
erman had been arrested and had re-
vealed their true address. In Globe
vile there was boarding house where
$50 men employed in the Globe smelter
lived They were out on strike. and
Richardson testified that Orchard pro-
posed to Max Malich. the Austrian sa-
loon keeper who had befriended him
before. that the place be blown up, ac-
companying the proposition with the
declaration that 1T was good cha zee
to get rid of $50 nonunion men at one
time"
HAYWOOD'S DOUBLE DEALING
Orchard denied that he proposed this
scheme. but said that Malich had done
SO because the nonunion men were
driving him out of business and he
wanted to scare them away.
Orchard agreed readily to the scheme
and he and Joe Mahalich went out to
powder house FIVE or six miles from
town and stole 100 pounds Of dynamite
with which to do the work. 1t was
part OF this powder which he subse
quently used in the bomb that he took
TO Canyon City to blow up Governor
Peabody.
They never made the attempt ON the
boarding house, however, as Haywood
told them not to- Orchard did not
know why Haywood was not willing to
have all those nonunion men blown I'm
at once He was put to work on Judge
Goddard of the supreme court instead.
and thought nothing more of the non
union men.
1t was then, too. that HAYWOOD was
trying to get" Hearne, the Colorado
fuel and iron man. whom he accused
OF tampering with the legislature
Richardson got out another declaration
OF the difference between Haywood's
public and private conversation while
following this line. He told Orchard
with emphasis what things Haywood
had said openly.
Well. he wasn't talking publicly
what he told me, don't think replied
Orchard.
Richardson went back again to the
subject of money and with great i'm
pressiveness brought out the fact that
all during his absence in California the
Cripple Creek Mrs. Orchard had been
drawing relief from the federation
stores in the district. Orchard said
that he had first drawn relief himself
q SMUT tiiuc d1tcT the t1nQfcatOr shaft
explosion, and that he and his wife
continued to draw 1t throughout the
strike They got at times $S worth
of goods a week.
MRS. ADAMS ACTS AS BLIND
Now. said Richardson, as IL he were
about to spring mine under the wit
ness, will you tell the jury why, when
you were getting all the money YOU
wanted from Haywood and Pettibone,
you kept on drawing relief?.
! will" said Orchard readily
We'll, go on"
1t was because Meyer and Haywood
and Pettibone told me to, and SO did
Sherman Parker and w. r. Davis. They
all said it would attract attention IL I
paid for things for my family with
money and would arouse suspicion"
That didn't seem to be the answer
that Richardson was expecting to re-
ceive. He made no further effort to de-
velop the matter, however. and quit the
subject with his mind unsprung.
He tried to show that Orchard and
Steve Adams had separated because of
a quarrel over Orchards nonpayment of