The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-13
ORCHARD STILL
STAR WITNESS
OF THE TRIAL
THE DEFENSE TRIES TO BREAK
DOWN THE STORY OF FRED
BRADLEY DYNAMITING.
WHY HE STOLE THAT SHEEP
A Review of Earlier Attempt Made
ON the Life of Governor
Peabody.

tack of the Haywood defense on the
testimony of Harry Orchard goes on
unremittantly and the witness Will
probably be continued on the stand
for two full days. Orchard with
stands the strain with remarkable
fortitude and at the end of six days
shows no indication of mental or
physical tagging. This day was be-
gun with the story of the dynamiting
of Fred Bradley in San Francisco,
and the defense made a long and
determined effort to expose several
features of it to doubt, IL pro ability
and future discrediting, and to viii
ate it all by revealing the hand of
the Pinkertons.
Then the play went back to Den
yer for the winter of 1904-05, and
the spring that followed, and there
was an extended effort to show that
Orchard had practically no cmmu-
nication with the leaders of the fed
GRAFTON that he received no pay for
the Bradley crime or anything else
and that with Steve Adams, in a
period of extreme poverty, extending
over several months, was reduced to
the necessity of stealing a sheep
from the Globeville stock yards in
order that he might have food.
Orchard, to laughing courtroom,
seriously conlesseu lhaC ne stoie Che
sheep' Dut stoutiy denled tnat II was
because OF want. he lhslsteo that
all tnrougn that supposedly nara
winter ana spring ne continued 10
uraW money from FetIlDohe through
ADAMS ana man named Joe Maia-
not see the Ieoeratlon leaders oIteh
IL was because ne was lying low 10
AVOID capture Tor previous crimes
Ihls GlopeVllle inquiry deVeloped
more shocking crimes. AL thls Den
yer suburb there was dlaDollcal
plot-Orcnard sWore IL was inspired
Dy MAX Maiich' the defense clalmed
thal Orchafd was lts autnor-to dy-
namlte the boarding mouse Where l5O
noh-uhlon men ilVed, ana IN pfepara-
tlon Tor the murder en- Dloc, orchard'
ADAMS ahda man named Joe Mala-
men Droke INTO TWO magazines ana
stole 6OO pounds OF dynamite, winch
they lugged nome at night and bur-
led IN thelr cellar. Ihe crime was
abandoned, Ofcnard sald, III one OF
tnose Ilasnes tnat make MS testimony
remarkable, because HAYWOOD inter-
Vened ana 1orDaoe MIN 10 nave any
tnlng 10 90 with IL.
Carrying out the lines OF the tes-
tlmony tendlng TO snow that Orcnard,
regardless OF the great nold II Is
presumed he had on the federation
leaders, was frequently without
Iunds' lne deIense showed lhaI from
late III l903 until the mldole OF l9O4
Orchard continuously drew strike re-
ller at cripple Creek ana then ara
mat1cally asked orchard to explain
the inconsistency OF theJury orchard
replied that HAYWOOD, Meyer, Parker
ana Davis all ADVISED MIN TO continue
drawing rellef, because II ne should
dlspiay money IL would cause sus-
plclon.
me examination next covered
review OF the Garner attempt on tne
Ire OF governor PeapoGy; ana the
making OF the pomps TO XIII MIN, ana
the piots against Judges GapDaro ana
GODDARD WIN an eHort everywhere
TO llgnten ana cast doubt upon the
testimony OF the witness. Orchard
told a dramatic story OF the hrst at
tempt TO assasslnate PeaDody-an
carry morning drlVe tnrough snow
to place the Domb and the walt Tor
~
unexpected appearance of two coal
wagons that were coming from an
alleyWay and were driven across the
trigger string at the moment that
Peabody was crossing the mined To-
cal1ty.
Orchard brought MRS. steve Adams
into play today. he SAID that while
le ana ADAMS were watching Judge
with them couple OF times as
blind to divert susplclontrom them.
MRS. ADAMS, VINO was among tne VIII
nesses, laughed when orchard told OF
the incident.
Orchard, VINO confesses that ne
nesltateo at no crime ana took nun
dreo desperate chances IN those ne
conlnltteo, maze an interesting STUDY
ana a speclal contrlDutloh 10 psy-
$ cnoioslcal study OF ms persohaiIGy
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