Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-06-08
THE ATTACK
ON ORCHARD
by the Attorneys for the
Defendant Haywood
TheyHavePrOvedW What Was
Suspected That He Was
Faithful to No Side.

Boise. June 7.-Council for Haywood
continued their attack on the testi-
mony of Orchard at both sessions of
the trial today and centered their
strongest assault on the events begin
ming with the explosion of the vindica-
tor mine and ending with the earlier
meetings between the witness and the
leaders of the federation in Denver.
To the extent that traffic with the
other side" in the war Of labor and
capital Colorado is discreditable. they
succeeded in discrediting witness.
Taking up the admission that Or
chard made in his direct examination
that he had been treacherous to his
comrades in Cripple Creek by tipping
off the train wrecking plot they de-
veloped the fact that Orchard had en-
tered the employ of d. c. Scott, who
had charge of the railway detectives.
and that Scott paid his expenses and
accompanied him TO Denver when he
first met Meyer and Haywood.
He said he had agreed to report IL
Scott. but that he was lying to him.
and never intended to make any re-
ports and never did make any genuine
reports to him.
The defense also tried to show that
because he stood in with the other
side orchard was never molested by
militia in Cripple Creek. during the
strike. orchard admitted that Scott
told him that if the militia interfered
with him'he was TO send for him, that
the militia never did interfere with
him. nor search his house
Orchard said he went to Scott first.
because he had not been paid for his
work at the Vindicator mine and was
jealous because he was given hard
work like the Vindicator job while
other men got simply the task Of
train wrecking by displacing rails.
More crimes. great and small. were
added to Orchards record today. y
cripple Greek woman with whom he
committed bigamy had three sons;
orchard stole high grade ore from his
messmate; he stole powder to make
one Of the bombs thrown into the Vim
dicator coal pile.
The defense endeavored in various
ways to throw a shadow of a doubt
and improbabiiity around the whole
NluulCdlOr slOFNs lut dutStu Cpintt-
tion OF W. F. Davis and William East
erly with the affair and the circum-
stances under which orchard testified
he met Meyer and Haywood and was
paid for the commission of the crime
and To discredit Orchards 'story that
he was sent back TO Cripple Creek
with unlimited credit and orders to
commit any acts Of violence that he
cared to. The defense confronted Or
chard with Easterly and owen Barnes
and paved the way for a contradiction
by them Of the story told by orchard
and several times during the day
paved the way for the controversion Of
his testimony on material points. Or
chard stood the strain of the test very
well and held tenaciously to the
story related yesterday and the day
before.
Suddenly. toward the close of the
day. the defense took up the trip Or
chard made to southern Colorado with
Meyer in the early part of 1904 and
showed that Meyer feared to go south
unguarded, because the mine owners
official thugs" had beaten up innocent
union men and had sent for Orchard to
aid in protecting him.
Ii was agreed that they should car
ry cutoff shot guns and sit in the
center of a railway car so that If they