The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-21
~ATES ORCHARD
showed That Defendant Had Partici-
Datcd in Plan to Deceive Mrs. Or
cfiard as 10 Whereabouts OF iIus-
band-Dcfensc Objected to Admis-
sion, but We're OveEruIed by Judge.

W uAS
BOISE, Idaho, June 1S.-The prOsecu-
ton in the Steunenberg murder tria
offered one Of it's most imDortdnt
pieces OF evidence against VIM. d.
Haywood today, when, recalling Harry
Orchard for redirect examination. it
introduced four letters tending to snow
hat Haywood, during the fall of 1905,
when Orchard swearS he was
on various crimes for the federation
leaders, had participated in a plan to
deceive Mrs. Orchard, of Cripple Creek
as to the whereabouts of her husband.
Over a variety of protests from the
defense, Orchard was allowed to testl-
fly that in the summer of 1905 Hay
wood told him that Mrs. Orchard was
writing for information as to Orchards
whereabouts. Orchard swore that he
wrote Mrs. Orchard a series of letters
that were falsely dated and delivered
to Mrs. Orchard by agents of the
Western Federation of Miners. Or
chard said that he first wrote two let
tiers, dated San Francisco and had
them delivered through Paddy Mu'-
liney, representative of Cripple Creek
Orchard identified the two letters and
o%verruling all objections of the defense
Judge Wood admitted them.
Next Orchard swore that he wrote a
third letter purporting to come from
Nome, Alaska, and that under the gen.
eral arrangement he had made with
the federation officers, Marian Moore,
carried the letter to Nome. where he
! wen as organizer of the federation,
n posted it. This letter bearing the
date Of Nome, August 5, 1905, was
produced, identified and admitted as
evidence. Orchard then identified a
letter which Haywood wrote to Mrs.
Orchard and that was admitted in evil
dence and handed to the jury. It fol-
lows:
Denver. Nov. IS, 1905.
Mrs. H. Orchard.
Dear Madam and Sister:
Il have O heard a word since l
saw you. The last information l got
was from Alaska. l think Fairfield
was the name of the place. l see that
awful conditions prevail among the
law and order element.
Yours very truly,
civilian D. Haywood"
The defense attacked the letters and
Orchards story about them when it
got a chance to cross examine the
witness. but Orchard held to the story
he told about them.
To combat the theory that Orchard
killed Steunenberg in revenge for his
loss of a valuable interest in the Her
cules mine, the state on redirect cN-
animation obtained from Orchard a
declaration that he sold his Interest in
the Hercules mine in 1897, two years
before the strike began and troops
came The defense attempted to mOdi-
ify this by getting the witness to admit
he had not sold his interest in. the
Hercules but had pledged it and could
have taken it any time up to his flight
from north Idaho. but for the coming
of the troops, but Orchard adhered 10
the statement that he had sold out
right.
At the opening of the morning ses-
sion. the defense asked Orchard a Sc
ries G" i~mpeaching questions. They al
dealt with conversations in which il
was alleged Orchard recited his private
grudge against Frank S~teunenberg and
lowed that he would kill him if ne
hanged for it. Orchard denied every
query both specifically and generally.
St me Kind You Have hlHaYs Boggt