Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-12
ORCHARD CONTINUES
STORY OF HIS GRIMES
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then dramatically invited Orchard to-
explain the inconsistency. Orchard ro.
piled that Haywood, Meyer, Parker
and Davis all advised him TO draw
the supplies because the displayed
money would not execute suspicion.
The Attempted Peabody Assasslna-
ton. ,.
The examination next reviewed tho
early attempt on Governor Peabody,
and the making of the bombs to kill
MIN and the plot against Judge Cab.
bot and GODDARD with an enort every
where TO cast doubt on the testi-
mony. Orchards dramatic story OF
me iirst attempt TO assassinnte Pea
body, an early morning drive through
TIE snow to place the bomb and n
wait FOR the victim who was spared
by the unexpected appearance OF two
coal wagons, which. coming from an
allcyway. were driven across the
trigger string at the moment that
Peabody was crossing the mine, Or
chard brought Mrs. Steve Adams
into the play today. He said that
while he and Adams were Watching
Judge Gabbott's house, Mrs. Adams
went with them couple OF times as
blind to divert suspicion from them.
Mrs. Adams, who had seat among
the witnesses, laughed when Orchard
told the incident. Orchard, who con
fcsscs that he hesitatcd Mt no crime
and took hundred desperate chances
and in those he committed made an
interesting contribution to the pschy-
logical phase OF his character when
he called himself n coward. He said
he was too cowardly to openly kill
Judge Gabbot-that he regarded all
his acts as cowardly.
Same Heart In Orchard.
In five minutes today Orchard
showed more emotion than at any
time since he began his testimony.
II was when the defense In rough
shod aggression. asked him ii he had
not deserted his Cripple Creek wife
and left her in poverty. Orchards
lips uuivercd and with tears near he
faltcringly denied that he had done
so and said that the Federation lead.
ors had promised to care for her in
his absence.
Tried Hard to XIII Bradley.
Haywood regular-reverting to his
attempts on the life Of Fred L >adley
in San Francisco. Orchard said 1t
was after he Had seen the milk de-
livercd to the Bradley back door sev.
eral mornings in succession; that he
conceived the idea of poisoning his
victim rather than to use a bomb.
With the failure of the milk plot
he went ahead and made the bomb,
first buying n piece of five inch lead
pipe, II inches long Orchard said
he bought that pipe in plumbing shop
on Taylor street, somewhere in the
twenty-five hundred block Richard.
son wanted to know IL Detective Nc
Partland had attempted to trace the
San Francisco locations for the wit
ness
"All know is that he Investigated
the dynamite purchases. He brought
ME list of the sales of the Judson
Powder company, and asked me IL /
could pick out the names | had given.
picked out A. Debs as the one l
thought L remembered"
Don't you know there was but
one ten-Dound sale of dynamite that
whole year.
Mr.. Mcfarland showed me sew.
eral''
''ut GIL lit were III tlG
name of well known customer of
the company
There were several names"
Orchard said the morning he plac-
ed the bomb at the front door OF
the Bradley house people were pass
Ing on their way to work. I'he lead
bomb was inside wooden box. Or
chard took n down town car and was
out of carshot before tho explosion
occurred
From the examination of the place
after the explosion, don you know
that the walls were blown out instead
of in?" asked Mr.. Richardson.
"They were all shattered"
Orchard said that as Bradley open.
cd tic door he would he sidewisc TO
the bomb and the explosion would he
more likely a blew him out than In.
The witness. with the same cain.
ness that has married. his demeanor
throughout drew n diagram Off for
the attorneys showing just where he
had placed the bomb, and where
BRADLEY you'd he with Inc olemng
OF the toor. AT the suggestion OF