Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-13
RESUME OF HAYWOOD
M0YER TRIAL.
ORCHARD CONTINUES TESTIMONY. DE-
FENSE FAILS TO MAKE ANY
HEADWAY.

Davis and Parker, members of the
strike committee of the Cripple
Creek strike. They then planned to
blow up a gang of nonunion men
there. The contrivance for explod-
ing the powder did not work for
about a week after 1t was placed.
At that time Supt. Mccormick and
shift boss Beck were killed. Soon
after this he went to Denver
where he met Haywood and Meyer.
He told them what he had done at
the Vindicator mine and Haywood
called it ''a mighty good job. "
Haywood paid him $500 for doing
the job. He then told of his part
III the attempted train wreck and
in the plot to get" Peabody. Pet
tiboue took an active part in this
plot he said. Soon after this, at
the request of Pettibone he killed
Lyte Gregory. Gregory had been
in a saloon and Orchard followed
him out. ''As he went into an al
ley. Orchard said calmly, II pulled
up the gun and shot him three
times. - ''Did he die?" II shot
him dead,'' said Orchard, quietly.
After this money came easily, $50,
$40 or $50, ae he asked for it. In
June Steve Adams and Orchard pull
ed the wire which blew up the de-
! pot at independence and II or Ia
men were killed. He then went in
to Wyoming, but soon came back to
Denver. In July, 1904, Pettibone
t got him a ticket for San Francisco
where he was to go and ''get' Fred
| Bradley He first tried putting
t strychnine in some milk. Then he
made bomb out of piece of gas
: pipe about IA inches long and filled
: it with ten pounds of gelatinc pow
: der. He told how he constructed
f the bomb, plugging both ends of the
' gas pipe and cutting holes through
S one side and arranging trigger
/ connected with a string to pull a
I cork from a bottle containing sui
: phuric acid to ignite chlorid of pot
/ ash and create the explosion. Brad
e ley was injured, but not killed. He
2 received $3.50 for this Job. Then he
t told of the attempts to get Pea
d body, Judge Gabbert, Judge God.
= dard, Sherman Bell, and finally oi
y his sevreal attempts to kill Steunen'
It berg. In all of these attempted
d crimes he told of the assistance
: rendered him by the officers of the
c Western Federation, of the money
o they paid him and the plans they
y made. Orchard said that Haywood
d and Pettibonc wanted him t.
It come to Idaho to ''get" Stunen
e berg; that they had sent others bu
IS that they had all failed. He told o
l. his watching Steunenberg for SOM
time and how on Christmas eve h.
d waited along side of the house TO
l. him, intending to shoot him, bu
!; did not get chance. He then toll
If of his making the bomb; that b
5. watched for Steunenbcrg for sever
=. al days and finally on the evenin
lie of December 80, 1905 hung tn
% bomb on the gate so that when
IT was opened the bomb would ex
n plode. Then he hurried back t
< his hotel. He heard the bomb ez
a plode just before he reached tn
to hotel.
Id AS soon as the direct examina
= tion was finished E. F. Richardso
lie took up the cross-examination tc
to the defense. On cross exsminatio
a Orchard said that ne had one brotf
IN er and six sisters; that his parent
It had been farmers, and that the
lp were now dead. He worked ;
an making cheese. Was married
ne June 1888. He LETT his wife aboV
T. seven years afterwards, and whe
ed ne went to Colorado married agail
ry Orchard admitted that he had lie
ps to Pettibone and others; that +
n gambled good deal, and also tn
a he had burned John Neville's saloC
ed in Cripple Creek to get the insu
I'M ancc. He set fire to it with ''Pe
ed tibone dope'' and was paid 500
en- the 500 insurance received by N
in vile for doing it. During the eros
,r- examination on Monday Orcha
st, said that he had burned his chee
tor factory in Ontario to get $500 !
let surance. That his fist crime "