The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-11


 he had spent his money in buying some | lots in Cody. He admitted he had lied | about the matter, for he did not want to | tell Pettibone he had lost the money gambling. Within a few days he got $50 rom Pettibone. He then met Haywood, | who wanted him to go to Bingham, Utah, 1 to assassinate Andy" Mayberry wo had laid off lot of union men at his mines Don't you know that as a matter of I fact, Haywood and Mayberry are. and always have been, the warmest personal friends?' asked Attorney Richardson | Tt may be so; I didn't know it."
 Didn't you know Haywood and May berry worked side by side in the mines of Nevada, and that Mayberry had taught | Haywood assaying?'
 Il never knew anything about that"
 Mayberry Assassination. Orchard said he went to man named Baston about helping in the Mayberry assassination and then talked further with l Haywood and Pettibone in the latter S back yard. This was in a thckly settled 1 community, but Orchard said there was no attempt at concealment. They sat there an hour or two and talked about | the crime.
 How loud did you tal1?" asked Rich ardson.
 Loud enough for each other to hear" l At this meeting Haywood san. he would l like Orchard to go to California and get 1 Fred Bradley. The Mayberry matter was l abandoned.
 | Why was it abandoned?" the witness | was asked.
 T don't know"
 Orchard said he had known Mayberry | for several years.
 What was the reason for getting | Bradley?" | Haywood said he was at the head of the mine owners association in Callfor- mia and was raising a fund of several hundred thousand dollars to drive the | federation out of the state" | Orchard denied that he had any grudge against Bradley from his experience in the Couer DAlene.
 You were just taking orders to kill l from your chief?' suggested Richardson. T was doing what MT. Haywood told me-"
 | Richardson asked Orchard if he did not | have a grudge against Bradley by reason | of the fact that he was driven out of Northern Idaho.
 If l was driven out, 1t was my own | fault" said the witness | Taking the witness back to the blowing | up of the concentrator mill of the Bunker l Hill and Sullivan mines, of which Brad | ley was once the manager Richardson | asked him how long he had been mem Der of the federation at this time. | About month"; replied Orchard
 Get Bradley" | Starting for California to "get Brad | ley" Orchard said Pettibone bought his | ticket for him and gave him $50 and a | new gripsack. In San Francisco he | stopped the first two weeks in August, 1904 at the Golden West hotel. From there he went to a boarding house on Tenth street. Bradley was in Alaska r1 waiting for him Orchard spent a part of his time in Caliente Springs Orchard | heard neither from Haywood nor Mover, while in California, but received several letters from Pettibone. These he de- stroyed immediately after reading Why didn't you save some of these, so you could have d hold on Pettibone in case he ever flew the track?" asked Rich ] ardson.
 1 'l wasn't thinking about getting any ] thing on him-dldnt have any desire l to-"
 The first money received from Pettibone in California was $10O, which came in ] registered letter. Pettbone said in the I letter that things were getting warm in l Colorado; that Johnny Neville and the boy had been arrested, and the authori- ties were looking for Orchard. He said 1 that Orchard had better lay low.
 The letter was signed Pat Bone" | The money was in $20 bills Orchard re- celved some of the money in the name of Harry Green.
 Strychnine In Milk.
 Orchard then repeated his story about 1 putting strychnine into the Bradley fam | ily's milk. Orchard had been acquant- | ed with the cook and had once taken her 1 to the theatre The man said he was | aware that the family consisted of Brad ley, his wife, a baby and three servant ] girls.
 l Did you. while you were in San Fran ! cisco, go out one night to the end of the car line in Golden Gate park and hold l up street car conductor?" asked Ricn- | ardson.
 | No sir.''
 Did you ever tell any one you dd?p | "Yes, 1 believe l did" Then you confessed to a crime you did not commit?' | "Yes'
 1 And you have confessed to other crimes you never committed?"
 The attorneys for the state objected to this, but the objection was overrued.
 "I have told such stories among men 1 when we were all telling stories" You have a mania for telling stories of l crime, haven't you?" l "1 don't know whether I have mania or not, but have told stories when others were telling of such things
 You would read of crimes in the pa- pers and then lay claim to them?" 1 No, sir. not that 1 Altogether Orchard said he had gotten i about s550 when in San Francisco Peter l.. Huff, secretary of the Bar tenders union identified him at the office.