Omaha daily bee., 1907-06-12
SIX DAYS ON STAND
Haywood Defense Continues Attach
on Orchards Story.
WITNESS STANDS STRAIN WELL
His Examination Will Continue Until
Thursday.
ORCHARD DENIES POVERTY
WITNESS STANDS STRAIN WELL
ORCHARD DENIES POVERTY
Attempt to Show that He Received
No Money from Anyone.
ATTEMPT TO KILL PEABODY
Says Coal Wagon Drove Across string
just as the Governor Passed over
the Mine---Reference to
Mrs. Adams.

BOISE. Idaho. June 1.-THE attack OF the
Haywood defense on the testimony OF
Harry Orchard goes on unremittingly, and
the witness will probably be continued on
the stand for two full days more. Orchard
withstands the strain with remarkable
fortitude and at the end OF six days shows
no indication Of mental or physical lag
ging. This day began with the story OF the
dynamltlng OF Fred Bradley In San Fran
cisco. and the defense made a long and
determined effort to expose several features
OF II TO doubt. improbability and further
discredting. and to vitate II all by reveal
ing the hand OF the Pinkertons. Then the
play went back to Denver for the winter
of 1sO4-O and the spring that followed. and
there was an extended effort 20 show that
Orchard had practically no communication
with the leaders OF the federation; that he
received no pay for the Bradley crime or
anything else, and that with Steve Adams,
in a period Of extreme poverty extending
over a period of several months. ne was
reduced to the necessity OF stealing a sheep
from the Globeville stock yards that he
might have food.
Orchard Denies Poverty.
Orchard to a laughing court room seri-
ously confessed that he stole the sheep,
but stoutly denied that It was because Of
want. He insisted that all through that
| supposedly hard winter and spring he con-
tinued to draw money from Petitions
! through Adams, and explained that II he
did not see the federation leaders often It
twas because he was lying low to avoid
capturee for previous crimes. This Globe
Vile inquiry developed a more shocking
crime. At this Denver suburb there was a
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spired by Max Maiich, the defense claimed
| that Orchard was its authorize dynamite
a boarding house where $50 nonunion men
lived. and in preparation for the murder
on bloc Orchard Adams and a man named
Joe Mahalich broke into two magazines
and stole GOO pounds of dynamite which
they lugged home at night and buried in
their cellar. The crime was abandoned.
Orchard said In one of those flashes that
make his testimony remarkable, because
Haywood intervened and forbade him 70
have anything to do with IT.
! Carrying out the lines of testimony to
show that Orchard. regardless OF the
great hold which IT is presumed he had
on the federation leaders. was frequently
without finds, the defense showed that
! from late In 1908 until the middle OF
1904, Orchard continually drew strike
/
/ caIly invited Orchard to explain the in
consistency to the jury. Orchard replied
that Haywood. Meyer, Parker and Davis
all advised him to continue to draw relief
because II he displayed money he would
excite suspicion.
Attempt TO XIII Peabody,
The examination next covered a review
! OF the early attempt on the life Of Gov
ernor Peabody and the making of thu
bombs TO kill him, and the plots against
I Judges Gabbert and Goddard. with an
effort everywhere to tighten and cast
doubt upon the testimony Of the witness.
Orchard told dramatic story OF the first
attempt to assassinate Peabody--an early
morning drive through the snow to place
the bomb and await for the victim who
was spared by the unexpected appearance
of two coal wagons that coming from an
alley way were driven across the trigger
string at the moment that Peabody was
crossing the mine field.
Orchard brought Mrs. Steve Adams into
play today. He said that while he and
Adams were watching Judge Goddard's 8
house Mrs. Adams went with them cou-
pie of times as blind to divert suspicion
from them. Mrs, Adams, who had a seat
among the witnesses. laughed when Orch
ard told the incident
Orchard who confesses that he hesitated
at no crime and took a hundred desperate
chances in those committed made an inter-
esting contribution to the psychological
study of his personality when he called him
self coward. eli said he was too cow
ardIy to openly kill Judge Gabbert; said
that he regarded all his assassinations as
cowardly.
In nve minutes today Orchard showed
more emotion than any time since he began
his testimony II was when the defense.
IN a roughshod depression. asked him II
he had not deserted his Cripple Creek
wife, stripping her OF every nickel she had,
and leaving her in poverty, that compelled
the sale OF her washtub to buy bread.
Orchards lips quivered and with tears near
he falteringiy denied that he had done 80.
and said that federation leaders had prom
, Used 70 care for her in his absence
Details of Bradley Crime.
BY noon today Harry Orchard under
cross-examination, had described in detail
fthe explosion at the Bradley residence in
San Francisco and was giving the partic-
ulars OF the attempt in Denver to assassi-
nate Governor Peabody and Supreme Judge
Gabbert Of colorado, in December, 1904.
Continuing its examination OF Orchard.
the defense IN the case Of william d..
. Haywood. attacked the testimony OF the
witness as 10 the dynamiting Of Fred
Bradley OF San Francisco and besides en-
deavoring TO show the discrepancies and
improba abilities in Il, sought to make Il
appear that It had been in part inspired
by Detective Mcfarland.
There was first an effort 70 show that
: Orchard had Eever seen or heard OF the
Japanese servant who cleaned the porch
at the Linforth fats the morning Brad
ley was blown UP until Mcfarland told
him about him. Orchard denied this ana
swore that he saw the japanese and that
ne had TO wait for the japanese 10 leave
the porch before he placed the bomb
The defense endeavored TO discredh the
story OF the purchase OF dynamite from
the Judson Powder company and the entire
, claim that a bomb was used by showing
the walls Of the Linforth building were
blown outward and that Bradley had been
/ hloxsy, into the At Attorney Richard.