The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
inner CIRCLE"
ATTORNEY RICHARDSON SAYS 1T
is ALL BoSH.
SAYS ORCHARDS STORY FAKE
Colorado Sends Ocean Of Dirty Linen
to Boise for Jury
to WASH"


ment, Attorney Richardson reverted
briefly to the Bradley explosion in San
Francisco, to call attention to the ties.
| timony of witness who said Orchard
declared Bradley got what was com
ing to him and there's a chap named
| Steunenberg who is going to get his"
Tracing Orchard back to Denver,
| where he made the second attempt On
the life of Governor Peabody, Richard
| son declared that absolutely no corrob-
oration had been offered to Orchards
story Of setting the bomb under the
| sidewalk and it's failure to explode be-
cause of coal cart driving across the
wire. The attorney also declared that
no sufficient explanation had been Of
| fered az to why Orchard abandoned
the attempts to kill Governor Peabody.
Judges Goddard and Gabbert, Sherman
Bell and Hearne.
DO you suppose, gentlemen of the
jury" asked Richardson, that if
murderous inner circle of the West
ern Federation of Miners had marked
these men for death and had hired as
| sassins to do their work, they would
have been so easily deferred from cac-
ryinS ont their designs?
! WUeH you cOnSluer lne leSIlmOny
in this case think you will reach with
me the conclusion that this man Or
chard was possessed of a mania to go
out and kill. Sometimes his lust was
greater than at others and so 1t was
| that sometimes he was strong in his
purpose and sometimes wavered. His
testimony shows desultory. maniacal
method of pursuing the victims Sc.
| lected for death for some fancied
grievance against himself, or perhaps
the organization to which he belonged
| Orchards is the most absurd story on
| the face of the earth. He says there
was never any fixed amount to be paid
( him for given crimes-he was always
| told not to take too much, as he could
get more whenever he wanted it.
In the light of this testimony what
becomes of Hawley's opening state
ment 10 you that the Western Fedora
tion Of Miners had scale of prices for
crime, so much being fixed for the
murder of a governor so much for
judge and so much for common la
/ borer?"
Richardson called attention to the
| meagerness of Governor Peabody's tes-
| timouy when he appeared as a witness
and exclaimed
will you men of the jury put hal
! ter around the neck of this man on
such testimony as this and send him 10
| his death at the behest of the Mine
| Owners Association and its represent
! atives? 1t will be a long time before
the law will sanction conviction on
any such evidence as has been here ad-
| duced."
Richardson ridiculed Orchards story
a c IN haipu no a,,iJ
/ Moffat, president of the First National
| Bank Of Denver. He declared that
! Haywood deposited all the funds of the
f., federation in this bank, and was Il
constant visitor there.
Think of that, men, and yet this
creature, covered with the slime of his
past crimes, comes here and would
, have you believe that Haywood was
planning to murder the man to whom
| he was entrusting the funds of the or
| ganization of which he was secretary
| treasurer-upon David II. Moffat, with
whom he was on terms of almost 1nti-
| mate friendship. Everything con
| nected with this matter gives the lie
to Orchards monstrous story"
Richardson next pointed out how
easy 1t would have been for Orchard to
| have killed General Sherman Bell had
| 1t been desired, and declared that If
! there was any one man against whom
| the federation might feel resentment it
| was Sherman Bell. who was in com.
! mand Of the militia during the strike
period in Colorado. But nothing was
| done to Bell. nothing was done to
Bulkeley Wells.
"Orchard's conduct at Caldwell be-
fore the murder of Steunenberg," said
Rich rISnn s.Iaaic innvifnb1y tn
conclusion that this man was deter
| mined to draw the attention of the
| whole population on himself
Whether he was in the employ of
the Pinkertons at the time or not does
| not appear on the record. but | think
| | can show before this argument is
over, that both before and after the
| murder, the purpose of Orchard and
| others was to create evidence such as
might lead to the arrest and convic-
| ion of the Western Federation of Min
| ers officials
After reading extracts from the
Denver newspapers printed at the time
| Of the arrest of Orchard. all of which
he said, showed the hand of the Pink
,rton detective agency in an endeavor
link the name of the Western Fed
.ration of Miners with the murderer
| richardson said the governor of Idaho
| ind the Pinkerton agency knew when
Steunenbery was murdered and Or
hard was arrested that he would
| make the confession.
For years the Pinkerton Detective
| ,gency had permeated the locals of the
Western Federation with secret oper-
.tives, but had never been able to
| asten single crime upon the orga.
zation-the only organization, said
Richardson, which ever had the power
Ind the courage TO raise its hand
| against the mine owners.
Taking up the life of Orchard in the
,enitentiary at Boise, Richardson said
he vile, loathsome creature had been
,etted and coddled, fed from the war
| lens tables, visited by the governor
II the state and called in familiar