Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-06-09
ORCHARD CONTINUES
/ HIS CRIMSON STORY
Almost Every Crime In the Cal.
Sndar for Star Witness.


1919 $500 - 49, = 'Nte~e " fIel
Wood, Pettlbons and siImssIf--Hay.
wood Appears UneOnesrnsa.
Boise, Idaho, June s.--Harry Or
1bard crowned his admissions OF
crave crimes Thursday when, contin-
plng bis case against William d.
Haywood, he made an explicitly de-
FAILED confession OF the murder OF
Frank steunenberg By an internal
nachine that directly opens the way
tor his own conviction ad execution
40r the offense. He swore that the
assassination OF steunenberg was first
epggested by Haywood was jointly
plotted by Haywood, Meyer, Petit
bone and himself; was financed by
Haywood and was executed by him.
self after the failure OF an attempt
81 which Jack slmpldns had particl-
paled.
Orchard lifted the total OF his own
murdered Victims to eighteen. detail
"a the circumstances under which he
tfied to murder Former Governor
Peabody, Judge GODDARD. Judge CAB
bert, General sherman Bell, D.. II.
Rfoffatt and Frank Herne. Incident
ally he confessed TO plan 10 kidnap
the child Of one of MIS- former associ-
eies.
Then, under cross examination by
Ahe defense. Orchard confessed guilt
of The sotdid social crimes OF desert
ins his young child and wife IN On
brio. fleeing to British Columbia With
BATTLE simpson. the wife OF another
man, and committing blgamy by
nprrying q third woman at Cripple
Ceek,
Through the shocking details OF
murder plots, stories OF secret bomb
staking and details OF man hunts,
with sawed-ofi shotguns and inferpal
niachlnes as weapons, the witness
went on in the same quiet, ofI-hand
manner that marked his demeanor on
"Wednesday.
HIS voice dropped 10 a lower key
~ The pitlful story OF the long hunt
for steunenberg narrowed down TO
the last day. and be told OF the race
from the hotel to the home TO beat
hls victim, with the death trap, and
the meeting an the evening gloom,
as me victim walked unconsciously
lo his doom Through II all he
WINGED but once. and that was when
che defense made him name his ak
alslerA and his one Nbrother, and give
sAelr residences in Ontario and New
York.
Tne defense fought the story with a
multiplicity OF objections and sue
ceeded In heading OF an attempt 70
cell the story OF the murder OF ar
thur Collins. at Telluride. and tenn
porailly shutting out the contents Of
a telegram received and telegram sent
BY Orchard after his arrest But
for the rest, the state managed to get
a. ils story intact
There were the same precautions and
che same armed guards 70 project
Orchard. and the same court room
scene except that among the specta-
tors the women to men were as two
q one.
Orchard finished his direct examin-
alton 81 1855 o'clock and the cross OK
animation had only reached down to
enc Occur d'Alene DAYS OF 1893. when
ihe court rose.
Counsel for Haywood claim they
nlil De able 10 prove that what Or.
chard has stated Is untrue. II Is
efen claimed that they viii. or can
produce, people who win say thar
they themselves committed murders
cf which Orchard accuses himself.
Haywood. the man whom Orchard
nselufes as the arch consplratOr,
shows nstlo concern He even laughs
outright when asked what ne thinks
az the testimony he asserts post
lively that the connecting Of his name
vith The murders Is falslhcation.
ana that Orchard has connected him
win The crimes partly out o. spike
and partly al the susscston OF de-
sclifes abd eaomios o. che Western
edcfati3n OF Nlhsrs L ls noi knovn