The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-09

Boise. Ida, June S.-The cross-exam-
ination of Harry Orchard, by his own
confession the slayer of eighteen men
by bullet and bomb is likely TO last
through Monday and Tuesday of next
week. and possibly longer. Orchard has
now been on the stand for fourteen
hours in direct and cross-examination.
OF this the state had him in hand for
seven and a half hours. In that time
he told what appeared to be an incred-
3ble story spread over the forty-one
years of his life, the first thirty years
being merely commonplace, the story of
a poor Canadian farmer, but, beginning
with the year 1885, he unfolded a career
in which. to use the language of the
leading counsel for the state, assassin
alton was a trade and murder a means
of livelihood
Murders Vet to Be Analysed.
Orchard spared no incident of his
more recent life, under the questioning
of the state, that might prove to the
jury his readiness to slaughter for low
wage and how Indifferent he had been
as to the number or condition of his
victims. This story, brought out by
counsel for the state was, however,
merely synopsis of the play whose
acts cover the years since 1899. In every
act the climax sent a shudder through
q crowded court room. Under crosS-eX-
animation by E. F. Richardson, counsel
for w. D. Haywood, Orchard has so far
developed this series of tragedies, but
only up to the year 1904. Three more
years and many murders are yet to be
analysed. For purposes of its own, not
so far revealed, the defense is deter
mined that Orchard shall retell his life
story so that the most diaboiic or the
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impressed upon the minds Of the men
who are to pass upon the question
whether w. d. Haywood is guilty of
conspiracy TO murder at hiring Orchard
and Steve Adams to bump off, a gov
ernor, slaughter a supreme court judge
or blow uD a mine or a depot filed
with seabs.
Intention of the Defense.
Slowly but surely the defense is devel-
oping the lines by which it hopes 10
break down the story of Harry Orch
ard, so far as il affects Haywood, now
on trial. Meyer and Pettibone, who are
yet 10 be tried or the same charge. If
it is possible TO heap further ObliQuy
on the witness they have done so by
Aproving him capable of petty crimes.
by his own admission he is bigamist,
a thief, a liar and an incendiary. He
has played the traitor to his employers.
He has deserted two wives and his
child To all these offeEses he has been
forced To confess, but under a grueIling
examination by Richardson he has
stuck to his story and given chapter
and verse. Possible witnesses after
witnesses have been named, ind counsel
for the defense state most positively
that the pile of sworn testimony they
VIII bring to contradict Orchard must
convince the jury of the entire falsity
of his testimony. BY their questions
they have plainly indicated their inten-
tion TO prove that Orchard was the
hired agent of the mine-owners. who
harassed by the Western Federation of
Miners. determined to wipe union labor
from the mines of Idaho and Colorado
planned assassinations. train wrecks
and mine explosions that could be laid
10 the door OF the Western Federation
of Miners and would keep militia on
the ground while non-union men worked
in the mines.
II has been shown under the cross
examination that Orchard trafficked
with railroad detectives in the mining
region of Cripple Creek during the great
strike there, while almost at the same
time he was in the confidence of the