Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-10
ANOTHER CONVICT
Steve Adams, Held For Murder.
 Next Witness at Boise.

| oO10E, ludst JuuS 1Vs-I1uIly VT
 chard, by his own confession the slayel
 of eighteen men with bullets ana
 bombs, is likely to be on the stand fol cross examination today and tomorrow
 and possibly longer. Orchard has now
 been on the stand for twenty-five
 hours. The state had him in hand fol
 nearly eight hours. In that time ht
 told tale of crime that spread ovel
 the last eleven years of his life, ths
 first thirty years being the common
 place story of farm hand. But be
 ginning with 1897 he unfolded careel
 in which, to use the language of the
 leading counsel for the state, "assassi
 nation was trade and murder s
 means of livelihood"
 Orchard, under the questioning of the
 state, spared no incident of his more
 recent life that might prove to the
 jury hls readiness to slaughter for low
 wage and how indifferent he had been
 as to the number or condition of his
 victims. The story brought out by the state was, however, merely synopsis of the play whose acts cover the years since 1899. In every act the climax
 sent a shudder through a crowded courtroom.
 Under cross examination by B. F. Richardson, counsel for W. D. Hay wood, Orchard has developed long series of tragedies. For purposes of its own the defense is determined that Orchard shall retell his life story to the most diabolical or the most squalid detail before the men who are to pass on the question whether W. D. Hay wood is guilty of hiring Orchard to murder former Governor Frank Steun- enberg at Caldwell, IdaA on Dec. 30, 1905. Slowly but surely the defense is developing the lines by which 1t hopes to break down the story of Har- " Orchard so far as 1t affects Hay wood. If it Is possible to heap further obloquy on the witness they have done so by proving him capable of petty crimes.
 By his own admission Orchard is a bigamist, thief, a-liar and an incen- diary. He has played the traitor to his employers. He has deserted two wives and his children. All of these offenses he has been forced to confess, but un- der grueling examination by Rich ardson he has stuck to his story in gen. eral and in detail.
 By questions the defense has plainly indicated the intention to prove that Orchard was the hired agent of the mine owners, who, it will allege, har- rassed by the Western Federation of Miners and determined to wipe union labor from the mines of Idaho and Colorado, planned assassination, train wrccking and mine explosions to lay at the door of the federation and keep militia on the ground while nonunion men worked the mines.
 From half Q dozen states witnesses will be called to deny Orchards as- sertions.
 Steve Adams, another prisoner wit ness for the state, Is now on the way to Boise, coming from the Jail at Wal lace, Ida, where he Is held pending trial on the charge of murder. Adams, according to Harry Orchard, was a partner of the assassin in many of the Dumping of expeditions" successful and unsuccessful, to which Orchard has confessed.
 Adams also confessed last year, but he repudiated the document when he faced the gallows. The confession is, however, sworn to and in writing. It shows careful correction and inter- llneation in Adams own handwriting. though 1t may seem, those who have seen Adams confession say It surpasses Orchards story of mur- der. The list of Adams alleged list of victims is not as long as that with which Orchard credits himself, but this Is said to be because Steve stlll hunt ed e single quarry, while Harry, to use his own words, ''did not care he killed one man or fifty" as he felt at that time"