The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-28
GIVES LIE OORCHARD TALE
STAR WITNESS FOR HAYWOOD
DENIES EVERY STATEMENT.
cRoss-ExAMlNATloN is SEVERE
Testimony at Boise That Orchard
Sought 5,,venee on steunenbers.
Denver 20 y Also Swears She
Heard H.. %ia Threats to XIII.

Heard H. 81. Threat. to XIII.
Boise, Ida. >, Vs. William F.
Davis Of Goldfeld, oo r of the
most important witnes%oct% he de.
tense of William D. Hayw,eIr accused
Of the murder of Frank Steunenberg,
was called to the stand at noon and
his cross-eXamination had not been
completed when court adjourned.
Harry Orchard testified that Davis led
and commanded the mob that de-
stroyed the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mill in 1899; inspired, as the agent of
Haywood and Meyer, the indicator
explosion and the train wrecking plot
at Cripple Creek and was an accom-
plice in the Independence station
crime.
On direct examination by Clarence
barrow he went over the story of his
working life, including the pathetic
story of the death of his wife and
babe at Cripple Creek. at which he
wept, and made positive denial Of
every statement Of Orchard that in
volved him or his assistants in any
form Of crime. He denied that he was
even a member of the union when
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
was blown up and at the conclusion
Of his general story, swore that at
Cripple Creek, during the strike, Or
chard told him of the Hercules mine
affair and threatened to kill Steunen.
| berg.
Severe Cross.Examination.
The cross-eXamlnatlon of Davis by
Senator Borah was severe and search
ing and was chiefly devoted, as far as
1t proceeded, with the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan affair and the circum-
| stances under which Orchard made
the threat against Steunenberg.
| Davis asserted that he remained at
Gem the day the Bunker Hill mill was
blown up and, while he said he saw
the train in charge of the masked mob
arrive at and depart from Gem, he
| could not name any one on the train
except the engineer, Hutton. He said
there was no excitement, and he made
no inquiry about the mob. He said
that he remained in hiding after the
mill was blown up because he did not
want to be deported or thrown into
the "bull pen," and that he changed
his name when he departed for Butte
shortly after because he feared the
mine owners blacklist" made up
from petition that the employees of
the Bunker Hill had sent to Governor
Mcconnell protesting against the un-
safety Of the mine. Borah showed
that the petition had been presented
six years before, and that Butte was a
federation camp, where the blacklist
was ineffective. Passing to the threat
Orchard made against Steunenberg,
| the witness was unable to recall what
any one else had said on that occa.
sion except the words of Orchard.
What Orchard Told Lottie Day.
Mrs. Lottie Day of Denver testified
that in 1904 Orchard told her about
the loss of the Hercules interest and
with it the chance to support the
only woman he ever really loved" and
that he said he would kill Steunenberg
for the wrong done him; and John d.
Elliott, an old soldier, swore that Or
cherd told him on train in Idaho in
the fall of 1905 that he was in the
employ Of the mine owners and that
there was a plot against the fedora
ton and its leaders. Cross-examina-
ton showed the fact that Elliott had
twice been an inmate of an insane
asylum, with a mind unbalanced by
family troubles,
John M. O'Neill, editor of the Min
ers' Magazine, was the only other
witness during the day. He testified
that Orchard came to his Office early
in 1906 and asked for the addresses
OF Governor Peabody and General
Sherman Bell, who he said should be
bumped off," O'Neill said that he
referred Orchard to a city directory.
The state used the cross.examination
of O'Neill to make it clear that the
magazine was the official organ Of the
federation and expressed its views,
and to read to the jur1 some sneering
articles about the death Of Steuneu.
berg ONeill also said that he had
seen Orchard at federation headquar.
tiers several times, and that Steve
Adams and Mrs. Adams had also Jesa