The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-14
he Witness Confesses to Participation
With Orchard and Mob in Deadly
Labor Riot at Ward
ner, Idaho.
lOOF THAT EDITOR OF MINERS
MAGAZINE is AN EX-CONVICT
lmant Issued, Charging DIR. MCGEE, of Wallace,
Idaho, One of Haywood's Witnesses,
With Perjury.

k0IsE, Idaho, July 13.-Sensatiou
rsd sensation quickly in the Hay
y trial today when the State COM
la ifs rebuttal evidence. One wit
4 an the stand confessed to partici-
a in a labor riot resulting in the
ri OF two men, the record Of copvic-
. Of murder in. the second degree of
|rjlness for the defeuse was intro
q snd the proof of another having
sent to the insane asylum upon
Information Of his neighbors was
IA. lis admissibiity was argued
4 n, decision Of the court will be
.da down on Monday morning.
|I1y, shortly after court adjourned
|tke day, information was sworn to
n warrant for perjury issued in a
fafatc's court against DR.. |. h..
Xte, physician of Wallace, Idaho,
was one Of the witnesses for the
Ese in the dlscrediting of Orchard.
ia j. ". Bailey Of Shoshone coun-
|rhp swore TO the information
"a McGce. leaves for Wallace to-
and will arrest McGee on arrival
\ Witness Confesses Crime.
crowded courtroom, somewhat
! BY legal commonplace, sprang to
aed attention at the close OF the
q Eession Of the HAYWOOD trial to-
|Fhen William Dewey, a witness in
|lsl for the State, confessed TO ac-
armed participation in the de-
ion Of the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
ioncsntrator at Wardner on April
99, when two men were killed and
Of thousand men participated
4 not.
ffy Orchard commenced his series
nat crimes at Wardner. He con
to lighting one of the fuses that
u the explosion and he swore that
ln T. Davis. known among his fel.
N "Big Billo Davis, led the mob.
!ges for the defense have sworn
0chard was not at Wordner on
rs, Davis himself has sworn to
been elsewhere and positively
any connection with the crime
pmplicity in which Paul CorcoTan
'ned and convicted. and some ten
dozen men, including Davis him
we're indicted by the grand jury
on the stand admitted that he
into hiding immedla tely after the
ER
Big Bill" Handed Out Guns.
Icy swore today that not only
,blg Bill'' accompany the mob to
qner, but that he served out guns,
ana ammunition TO the union men
siea in the union hall at Burke
they went to Wardner and was
p ihe leaders of the column that
.nceq On the concentrator before
Sork Of destruction commenced.
fs. yeaB have now elapsed since
usy OF rioring, the consequences
ss'c5 was the calling out of the
= STATES troops at the request Of
asi oteunenberg, the establish.
q lhe military "bul-pen'' and
'oupoatlen was laid, according to
prosecution in The present trials,
s shimus on the part Of the West
FEDERATION of Miners against
Ssuocfg resulting in his assassina
y orchard in 1908. From that
y eyewitness except Orchard has
'vana 10 tell the story or incrim.
rmnself, until this afternoon,
cyswey, now resident os Gold
SViorado, made his confession.
Witness Much Affected.
eyes downcast and fingers uerv-
pics'ng at the braiding around
.aepeatedly he was requested to
voice and with a quick glance
;Tei ne complied, only to sink
sw almost inaudible tone. I'm
soV9catlon Of sneeriug cross
H9n by f. F.. Richardson. he
sna even became combative, but
ayut the recital he gave evi.
y d certain remorse,
II the snme cross be
Ethies mad come to Boise to con.
is Ws Llme after eight years of
\, &c nad been miner in Colo
6s.o seven years, he said, and had
~ oulnclently in the regard of
cn,san lGsn to be elected town mar
~ promise of immunity from
. ~ was given you before you
W. NJ make this confession of
ipdnnaai reward will you receive7
|lacca |lcT s% you to make this state.
Il R;shter after all these yearsp' were
,st richardson y IS questions.
fs on, was the Iaconic reply to the
'tpssq ssqaestions, but to the last one
,sS ,seis answered: ' o
h ~, ,orchard S confession. f"
~ an dos now we'll he was treated
Riss,naed to get a little of it?"
y's Hope of Immunity.
- nothiug of that kind, re-
b bsTIey quietly. 'EI though i
n -'ip along with the doing of
Ss 'slt the stand a few minutes
ts,sIsIlar hour of ad iournment.
: q evs. loose jointed man with
III 40 and a great Roman nose,