Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-13
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ORCHARD WANTED AID
TO KILL STEUAEABERC.
Defense Trying 70 shp# That he
Gould Have Committed Crime
Without Assistance.
WANTED IolaPlICATE FEDERATION.
E"deavored to Secure Tire Help Of a
Man Who. " Hs Had Been MIxsa
Up In Crime, Would Have Put
Union In Bad odor--orohards Try.
ING Day.
my Associnted Press /,

AA>fNiiNSt tJuue .iS---sI mo aIb- ST.
lense today carried on tho examina-
tion OF Harry Orchard down TO tho
actna' crime charged against WIZ.
liam ID. Haywood, the murder or &
former Governor FRANK Steunenberg.
inc Steunenberg crime was reached I'd
~ midday, and counsel for tile de. II!
tensc directed their efforts to an ar 81
tempt 10 cloud tho earlier purposes
ana movements or Orchard with lin.
certainty and indeiiniteness. Then
they emphasized the abandonment or
MI EFFORT to kill after Orchard iirst
tracked Steunenberg to n hotn In
5oise and with Il skeleton key rad
gained entrance to the room In wiiicii
mo Governor was living. iiere they ~
aelayed Tor moment TO prove that
orchard twice wrote and once tele.
phoned to Bill Easterly nt Silyer 81
City to urge him TO come and toin In @
the crime nnd the direct implication
was that Orchard WIS andeaycring t
to involve another Federation mnn
into. the crime which would bring
diacr6ait on the union. Then tie
Witness WaS carried over his Tong
journey into North idaho, ana min
crimea thero. including a 10 Eftf ~
mp and hold for ransom pauIsun,a
child were emphhsized. Orchnrd
sWore that David Coates Formerly
i.ieutenant Governor OF Colorado ana
later n publisher In Wallace, Idaho,
iirst suggested the kidnapping to
Pettibone and himself at Denver. IS
fauisoh, once q poor miner, had made
fortune In the mining business ana
charged an interest when the proper.
W was not paying md 1t was beiiey.
ed that his children stolen he would
come through with $60, 900 or $50. rs
900 In ransom. IS
lfen the defense showed the Wit
ness In the commission OF n series *
OF mean crimes and reduced to- nav,
erty In which he had to resort to
pawning, borrowing and stealing 10
live for n long period.
First he pawned jewelry or guns
Tor $50 or $40, then he accepted the
hospitality of Paalson's home white
ne was planning to steal PaulHon's
enid. After that, with Jack sSimn.
kins, ne broke into the Oregon Raii-S
way and Navigation Company's Sta.
tlon. They were after a trunk full OF i
jewelry samples but inatead got a
trunk full OF shoe samples. Next he
tapped cash register at Burke for 81
$40 or $40. Z rs 81
Why Didn't He Borrow
Summing >up this period ;of nov. s
erty and hard luck, the defense want
ed to know why IL he were in Idaho +
on n mission OF murder fortlayWood, IS
Meyer and Pettibone and with unlim-
iteu credit from them, he did not send X
to them for money instead OF hor-
rowing and stealing. Orchard replied 81
that he did send letter to Moyer q:
mt Butte and got 500 hut that ma
did not send TO Haywood for moro
because he WAS temporarily of tho
Steunenturg murder errand and
away from whore Steunenberg lived.
Lastly there came showing that
Orchard had borrowed $500 frorn n
Paulson on the strength or a fraudu-
lent story that he was going to Los
Angeles to sell mining stock Tor
Coates and thnt this money chat ac- A
tually paid his expenses when he
Went back to Caldwell on the final
mission OF murder
swiftly reviewing his meeting with
HIS old partners who meantime be.
come rich the defense asked ,ne Wit ~
ness IL disappointed and angered ait
Ills own hard luck in selling cut
the Hercules mine, when Steunen-
berg sent troops into North idaho.
no had not suddenly decided to bor-
row enough money from PaulsonB to- 81
take him to Caldwell where he wonid q
murder the man whom he blamed for
his misfortune. vi
Orchard Makes Vigorous Denlai. -
Orchard strenuously denied that
this was his motive. The earlier part
of the day was consumed with q ss
review from the standpoint Spf the
defense OF the alleged plots AGAINST
Peabody, Judge Gabbot, judge ssod4 &
dard and Herman Beli 1t developed S,
that during August. 1g03,when with
a shotgun and buckshot he was
stalking Bell, Orchard went to ltfs
Mt the house OF Pettibone. Tna bxs ss
PLANTATION of this relationship offered rs
by the defense in its questions Was 81
that Orchard had gone there to keet
Pettibone company Willie Mrs. Pet.
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