The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-08
ORCHARD A DETECTIVE
IN EMPLOY Of RAILROAD
Continued from Page I.


Sherman Parker and man named Ken
pP.Ssoh, orchard said ne had heard that
FsrkeF and Remission are dead.
Mr.. Richardson next took the witness
tinr9usn MS high grading" experiences
IN the indicator NINE
when you said the other day that Won
mad high graded in the Vindicator during
the strike you simply meant that you
were an ore thief, didn't your
Stole Ore and Sold IT.
II don't know what you call it," re-
Piled Orchard I'VE took the high-cIass
ore out secretly and sold it,"
You often made as high as SIS or $50
q NY. NY, 9idil you' from high grading?"
Orchard said he also high gradedv
while at work in the indicator before the
In his direct testimony Orchard said he
mad reported to Davis the finding of a
carload OF powder in the Vindicator mine.
ba5 3h 20 me time you told this to Davis,
had mere been any talk to you of pro-
posed violence TO the mine?" asked MIR.
Richardson. -ii
You preached the subject?''
les Id heard the leaders of the
Western Federation of Miners had blown
up mines before"
The witness couldn't recall who had told
.n nm of this. He believed it was Arthur
Your object was to suggest to Davis
Enmty to ''ine Owners.
Il felt some enmity to the mine owners
ana mad thought OF il. The soldiers had
peen brought in there and were running
us around"
Asked how he came to know there was
powder in the mine, Orchard said he had
stolen some and sold it.
Was there anything in vour ex
peflences at Wardner IDAHO which also
suggested the touching off of this powder
to your
1T may have"
Did the suggestion that the powder in
Ihe mine be touched off come from you
or from DaYis?"
From Davis. He said he would rive
me SEQ to touch it Off
orchard said he had communicated his
thoughts about blowing up the mine to
Orchard said there were about fifty
non-union men working in the Vindicator
mine. lie believed the touching off of
me carload OF powder would have meant
The death of all
Wholesale Murder for 5000,
And you proposed to murder fifty men
ior S2OOE' asked Richardson.
L proposed TO touch off the powder 4" |
orchard fenced in reply
:, Did you average the men up at about |
An objection to this question was sus-
tanned by the court.
- Orchard said that Meyer came to Cripple
a
speech, urging that no overt act OF anv
sort be committed, saying they would |
4urely be charged up to the Western
Federation of Miners.
Haywood spoke to the same effect. can
uohing the strikers against drinking and
gambling we'll
Didn't Haywood say that the mine |
owners would like Violence for they |
could then bring in troops and break up
the union?" asked Richardson.
don't remember that"
hat
countenanced?' %
I believe he did
indicator Mine Affair.
With mai named Scholtz. Orchard
saio ne went into the Vindicator mine to
attempt TO fire the powder. A eager
discovered them and they shot at him | ,
ms incident caused an abandonment of
the plan of blowing up the mine at the |
tine; orchard said the mine was guarded !
by the militia when he and his COMPANION
went down, but there was one passae e |
left unguarded. Two months later the
matter OF blowing up the mine was again Z
taken up
Then who suggested it this timer de-
manded Richardson
sherman Parker and Davis" :
orchard said the plan this time was 70 :
attach pistol to lift bar at the seventh Q
level The cage would lift this bar dis q
charge the pistol into a box of giant y
APPS which in turn would fire the pow
Orchard said VIII Easterly helped him Z
experiments along this line a
Is Easterly in the roOm2' asked Rich
arcson in a loud voice r
Confronted by Easterly. ii
A man stood up in the rear of the court y
ana Twas commanded BY the attorney for n
he defense TO come down the center aisle -
md confront the witness
The witness looked at the newcomer W
md quickly replied
That's the man." te
Orchard said the experiments were con
lueted in an abandoned shaft house Sol
hers were stationed within 800 yards but 81
lobody said anything TO the revolver "
hots and exploding caps in
Whose revolver did you use?"
My OWn.'
Orchard said Easterly told him he could
lot be mixed up with the explosion.
Did you ask him TO participated" 81
He declined without being asked?"
Yes, he said he was an officer of the W
For the second attempt on the mine Or NJ
hard said he was promised $500
Were you going TO fire the carload of CT
No, il was to be bomb this time" No
superintendent Mccormick and Mel n