Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-26
WITNESSES
APPEAR FOR
HAYWOOD
Testify Orchard Had
Grudge Against
Steunenberg
Defense Offers Much
Testimony for
Prisoner
Loss of Interest in Hercules Mine Said
to Have Influenced Slayer to
Take Life of Former
Governor
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho, June 25.-The first di-
rect testimony in defense of William
D. Haywood was offered today and it
was chiefly directed toward showing
that Harry Orchard, blaming Frank
Steunenberg for the loss of his interest
in the Hercules mine, had threatened
to have revenge by killing him, and
that the conduct of Orchard and *. c.
Sterling, both before the Independence
explosion, when they were frequently
seen together, and afterward, when
Sterling called off a bloodhound that
was following Orchards trail, justified
the inference that the mine owners
inspired the crime.
The calling of the first witness for
the defense was preceded by a further
examination of Orchard to permit the
defense to complete its formal i'm
parchment questions. These questions
were merely all in connection with the
claim that Orchard killed Steunenberg
because of an alleged grudge growing
out of the sale of his interest in the
Hercules mine.
Orchard, who came into court under
protection OF the same flying squadron
of guards which always acts as his
escort, maintained his old calmness of
manner and spoke in the same low
pitched, soft tone. He again denied
that he ever threatened to kin S.eunen-
berg because of the Hercules mines,
and again asserted that he sold his
interest in the mine before e trouble
that drove him out of northern Idaho
Two witnesses called later in the day
swore that Orchard did threaten to kill
Steunenberg because of the Hercules
matter, and the defense has prepared
the way for such testimony from a
dozen more witnesses. The tw' heard
today were f. r. Reid, nee of Cripple
Creek and now of Goldfield, New, and
the other Charles A. Sullivan, formerly
of Cripple Creek and now watchman
in the Brown Palace hotel in Denver
Tells of Threats
Reid said he heard Orchar make
the statement and threat in the miners
hall in Cripple Creek, and Sullivan
swore that while he and Orchard were
fellow boarders at John Neville's place
in Cripple Creek Orchard repeatedly
said that but for Steunenberg he would
be a rich man, and he intended to Kill
him. The cross examination showed
that both were members of the West
It
livan was a friend of Haywood Meyer
and many of the union lc :ders at
Cripple Creek.
DR.. 1. L. MCGEE, mining broker of
the Coeur d'Alenes, another impeach-
ing witness, swore that Orchard told
him in 1904 at wallace, Idaho, that he
was "spotter" for detective agency.
orchard denied this conversation, de-
MED that he was in Idaho at any time
in 1904.
Several witnesses, principally women
who kept lodging houses at Cripple
Creek, located Orchard at various con-
ferences with Sterling, the detective
for the Mine Owners association prior
to the Independence explosion, and
there was a further showing as to meet
ings between Orchard and D. c. Scott,
the detective for the Florence and
Cripple Creek railway. Another wit
ness told of the effort to locate the
men guilty of the Independence station
outrage by starting a bloodhound from
the scene of the mine explosion. He
said the dog took the road to Colorado
Springs, the one over which Orchard
fled in the night and that when he
reported to Sterling he got orders to
call the dog off. Sterling said he knew
who blew up the station, and later
said that Steve Adams had done so.
The state fought the admission Of
the bloodhound story and also opposed
the admission of evidence covering the
general features of the Colorado labor
war, but in both instances the court
ruled with the defense.