Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-26
TO VILIFY ORCHARD
Star Witness at Boise Again
 q on Stand.
STERLING CALLED OFF BLOODHOUND

Witness Called For Defense Testifles
 That Steve Adams Blew Up Rail-
 way station as Nonunion
 Miners Train Arrived.
 BOISE, Ida, June 26-The first di- rect testimony in defense of William D. Haywood offered here chiefly point ed toward showing that Harry Or chard, 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 K. c. Ste erling both before the Independence explosion, when they were frequently seen together, and afterward, when Sterling called on a bloodhound that was following Or chard's trail, justified the inference that the mine owners inspired the crime.
 The calling of the first witness for the defense was preceded by further examination of Orchard to permit the defense to complete its formal i'm peaching questions. These were nearly 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 squadron of guards that always acts as his es- cort, maintained his old calmness and spoke in the same low pitched soft tone. He again denied that he ever threatened to kill Steunenberg because of the Hercules mine and again assert ed that he sold his interest in the mine two years before the trouble that drove him out of northern Idaho.
 Two witnesses called later swore that Orchard did threaten to kill Steu- nenberg because of the Hercules mat ter, and the defense has prepared the way for such testimony from dozen more witnesses. The two heard were F. R. Redd, once of Cripple Creek and now of Goldfield, New, and Charles A. Sullivan formerly of Cripple Creek and now a watchman in the Brown hotel in Denver. Redd said he heard Orchard make the statement and the 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 rich man and that he intended to kill him. The cross examination showed that both were members of the Western Fedora tion of Miners and that Sullivan was a friend of Haywood, Mover and many of the union leaders at Cripple Creek.
 Several witnesses, principally wo- men who kept lodging houses at Grip ple Creek, located Orchard at various conferences with Sterling, the detec- tive for the Mine Owners association, prior to the Independence explosion, and there was a further showing as to meetings between Orchard and D. c. Scott, the detective for the Florence and Cripple Creek railway. Another witness told of the effort to locate the men guilty of the Independence station outrage by starting bloodhound from the chair rung used in pulling off the mine explosion. He said the dog took the road to Colorado Springs. the one over which Orchard fed in the night and that when he reported to Sterling he got orders to call the dog of. Ster- ling said he knew who blew up the station and later said that Steve Ad- ans had done so.
 The state fought the admission of the bloodhound story and also the admis- sion of evidence covering the general features of the Colorado labor law, but in both instances the court ruled for the defense.