Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-11
Says HAYWOOD IS
VICTIM OF PLOT
PRISONERS ATTORNEYS HINT
AT CONSPIRACY
Hope to Prove Orchard connIved with
Mine Owners Association and
Was Used by Them to In.
lure Federation
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Art Baston about helping in the May
berry assassination and then talked
further with Haywood and Pettibone IN
the latter's back yard.
At this meeting Haywood said he
would like Orchard to go to Californla
and get Fred Bradley.
what was the reason for getting
Bradley"
Haywood said he was at the head of
the Mine Owens association In Calltor
MIA and was raising fund of seVeral
hundred dollars to drive the 1eoeratloh
out of the state"
Orchard denied that he had any
grudge against Bradley from his ex-
periences in the Occur d. Alenes.
'You were just taking orders to Kill
from your chief?" suggested Richard-
son.
Il was going to do what Mr.. Haywood
told me-"
you were Haywood's executioner ex-
traordinary?"
The prosecution objected to the form
of the question and it was not an
swered.
Taking the witness back to the blow
ing up of the concentrator mill of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, of
which Bradley was once the manager,
Richardson asked him how long he had
heen a member of the federation at the
time.
"About month";" replied Orchard.
At that time he. had belonged to the
knights of Labor.
In San Francisco he stopped the first
two weeks-in August, 1904, at the
Golden West hotel. From there he went
to a boarding house on Tenth street.
Bradley was in Alaska when orchard
reached the city. While waiting for MIN
Orchard spent part of his time In the
Caliente Springs.
Orchard heard from neither Haywood
nor Mover while in California, but re-
ceived several letters from Pettibone.
These he destroyed Immediately after
reading.
The first money received from Petit
hone in California was $100. which came
in a registered letter. Pettibone said IN
the letter that things were getting
warm in Colorado-that Johnny Neville
and the boy had been arrested and the
were looking for Orchard.
He said Orchard had better lay low.
The letter was signed Pat Bone. The
was in $40 bills.
Lied About Crime
Orchard said he did not know to
whom the return registry card was ad-
dressed. He thought the money came
in the name of Wolf. The next money,
another $1OO, came by Postal Tele-
graph from Pat Bone"
"Did you, while you were in San
Francisco, go out one night to the end
of the car line at Golden Gate park and
hold up street car CONDUCTOR" asked
Richardson.
mo, sir"
Did you ever tell any one you did?"
Eyes, 1 believe did"
"Then you confessed to a crime you
did not commit? ?"
Eyes"
"And you have confessed to other
crimes you never committed?"
The attorneys for the state objected to
this, but the objection was overruled.
"I have told such stories among some
men when we were all telling stories"
Altogether Orchard said he got about
$3.50 while in San Francisco. Peter L.
Huff, secretary Of the Bartenders'
union, identified him at the telegraph
office.
Orchard received some money in the
name of Harry Green. The witness
then repeated his story about putting
strychnine into the Bradley family's
milk. Orchard had become acquainted
with the cook and had once taken her
to the theater. He said he was aware
that the family consisted of Bradley,
his wife, baby and three servant girls.
He knew that Bradley ate breakfast
first. He didn't think much about the
others.
ST had become kind of desperate"
said Orchard, "and I didn't think or
care much"
The Srychnine was in crystal form.
Orchard said he had to climb three
flights of stairs to get to the back porch
of the apartment occupied by Bradley.
From his own room Orchard said he
had watched the milkman place the
milk there every morning. Orchard was
still under cross-eXamination as to the
Bradley matter when court adjourned
until $3.50 a. m. tomorrow.