The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-09
Defense in the Haywood Case
Has Secured Some Evil
dence That 1t Considers
Will Be of Benefit to 1t.
MANY PECULIARlTIES
SHOWN I'M TESTIMONY.
Orchard Is Standing Up Well
Under the Cross Examina-
tion---Admits That He Had
Worked Long on His Story.

Boise, June S.-Harry Orchard. con-
fessed assassin. now trying to send
W. ID. Haywood TO the gallows, will
not admit that he was d detective at
the time he was suggesting and exc
cuting dynamite plots at Cripple
Greek and Denver This is the only
part of his testimony that so far caus-
ee him airy purturnation He is slow
to answer cross questions relating TO
his connections with the detectives
who We're working in Colorado to
break up the Western Federation of
Miners.
Orchard cannot or will not explain
why it was that during the time Sher-
man Bell was supreme in the Colora-
do mining towns and the district
around the mines was under martial
law. ne was never interfered with by
the piekets or the officers, though ev
cry other union man was subjected
To constant surveillance. Nor does
he explain why 1t was that his home
was never searched by soldiers and
the homes of miners who lived next
door to him were ransacked more than
once. In ali other matters Orchard
is quick 10 answer, telling of his mur-
ders and other crimes with utmost
nonehalancc.
Main Story Unbroken.
) His main story is unbroken as yet
-
having succeeded only in diserediting
parts of his tale He continues to re
cite that nis assassinations were paid
for by Haywood. Meyer and Petit
bone. The most significant feature
of this mans testimony is the pecul-
iarity of his memory. He recalls and
repeats substance of conversations
with Haywood, Mover and Pettibone,
where in they told him to go forth
with bombs and sawed off shot gun
and KILL
Was assassination such trivial
affair with YOU that YOU planned and
executed murders without heed to
when and where and with whom you
talked about to- asked Richardson.
Il talked with HAYWOOD, Mover and
Pettibone about it," was Orchards
oft repeated reply.
Another phase of this strange crea-
lures testimony is that he was at all
times willing and ready to murder
but he wanted some one with him.
Defense is Benefited.
When the court adjourned for the
day the defense had succeeded in
getting before the jury considerable
evidence that is expected to prove a
benefit TO them as result of the
thorough grilling of Orchard by At
torney Richardson.
BY series of questions Richardson
succeeded in getting Orchard to admit
that when he blew up the Indepen-
dence depot. the government was SER
iously considering the withdrawal of
troops from the Cripple Creek district
at the request of the Western Fedora |
tfon of Miners. who had proved that t
they could preserve order.
Richardson evidently tried to get /
The witness TO admit the explosion I
was planned by the mine owners asso- /
citation in order TO keep the troops in |
the district, but the witness succeeded |
in evading direct statements. of any |
kind at this time.
Orchard insisted that Haywood and |
other leaders wanted to blow up the /
depot to impress other members of |
the federation with the fact that the /
strike was not broken.
Standing UP We'll.
Orchard is standing up we'll under |
cross examination, but the defense +
succeeded in getting him TO admit that /
his entire story as related on direct /
testimony had been reduced TO writ
ing and that he had been revising and +
altering il for more than a year III or
der TO publish it as a history OF his t
life
Questioning along the line of the
Independence explosion became tire /
some and monetonous, but it was
plain that Richardson was trying TO +
get the witness to tell Just whom he /
saw in the Cripple Creek district /
when he returned in order to call /
them in rebuttal. Orchard named /
half a dozen men that he saw but alb /
solutely denied seeing the mine Off +
GERS or the latter's detectives. He ad- I
nitte6 helping John Neville burn his /
saloon in order 10 collect the insur-
ance TO get money for prospecting /
Trim after exploding the mine under /
The depot Orchard said he started +
the fire himself and after the insur-
ance was collected got hundred dol /
lars. He was on the Independence +
matter. when eeusl adjourned for the /
day.