The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-18

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given to him by the Almighty.
For hours the defense hammered
at the motive of saving his " life.
They sought to show it in the force
of example drawn from the immun-
ity OF informers in the Moliie Nc
would not admit. Next they sought
for it in Orchards effort to bring
Steve Adams to the state and then
in the subsequent meetings with Nc
Partland and Governor Gooding. Once
again they emphasized the fact that
witness had twice written his testi-
non out but Orchard repealed the
suggestion that it had been changed
by Mcfarland, Attorney HawIey or
anybody else.
After that it was suggested that
Orchard had placed his future in the
keeping of Mcfarland; that the Pin
kertons had sent men to his family
in Canada: that he had been supplied
with data to strengthen his story and
that Mcfarland had rained him as
a stage manager, for his appearance
on h stand. But all his Orchard
denied.
Then they tried to show him a pam
pered, petted hero-like prisoner fed
from the table of the warden, ad-
dressed as Harry" by Governor
GOOding and Warden Whitney, given
freedom and liberties that no other
prisoner eve had and all this con
sideratiOn implying that he would
never be hanged for killing Steuen-
Der. Then came a showing as to
how the prisoner had been dressed
and grOOmed for the trial and lastly,
for climax they showed Orchard
pleading for and saving the life of
Bob Wetter, condemned to death for
murder. Orchard admitted that he
had appealed to Governor Cooling
about Wetter and that later Gooding
first reprieved Wetter and then COM
muted his sentence to life imprison =
ment.
Orchard left the stand at $50
after having occupied it for 80 hours
and a half. Just before he was ex-
cused and remanded he went back to
the hands Of h prosecution and
identified the casing of the bomb he
planted at the gate of Judge Cod
dard's house in Denver.
Orchard is to return to the witness
chair later because the defense must
lay the formal lines for impeacbing
him and the state must still have
it's redirect examination.
The state at once entered upon it's
plan of co~rroborating Orchards tes-
timony. taking UP the first attempt
on the life of Fred Bradley of San
Franciaco. Mrs. Sadie Swan. who
as Sadie Bell when unmarried was
employed in the Bradley household
at 1404 Washington street said she
met Orchard at the grocery store
opposite the Bradley home. He was
going under the name of Barryac
that time. Orchard met the witness
sister and Mrs. Crow. the Bradley
cook sometimes came to the house to
deliver groceries.
Mrs. Swan told of finding h milk
bitter one morning.
Mr.. Bradley tested and ordered that
it should not be used. This was three
or four days before the explosion
which injured Bradley. Orchard had
testified that he had put ~strychnine
in the milk. After the explosion Mrs
Swan said she never saw Orchard
again in San Francisco.
When the witness was turned over
to the defense MI. Richardson moved
that all the testimony given by Miss
Swan be stricken out as having moth.
ing to do with connection with the
defendant, Haywood, with the affair:
"Orchard is not on trial." sale
Richardson. '"This is not the kinC
of corroborative evidence the law
calls for.
Judge Wood denied the motion
and an exception was noted.
Attorney barrow undertook the
cross examination of Mrs. Swan. He
asked her if Mrs. Grow, the cook
whom Orchard is said to have taker
to the theatre, had been brought t
Boise. She said she did not thinl
she a been. She gave Mr.. Darrov
Mrs. Crows address in San Francisco