The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-07

Boise, Idaho, June Harry Orch
| ard took the stand this morning 70
the third days examination as tht
principal witness against VIM. D
Haywood, charged with completely il
the Steunenberg murder The eros
| examination will take the entire day
and possibly all day tomorrow also
the witness shows no sig1
of fatigue. Haywood shows little con
cern. He even laughs outright wheI
asked what he thinks of Orchard ;!
testimony. He says that Orchard con
meets him with his crimes partly ou
of spite and partly at the suggestion
of detectives and enemies of tne
Western Federation of Miners.
When Orchard resumed the stanC
today, Attorney Richardson began "a
once to ply him with rapid fire o.
questions. Orchard protested to the
court, saying he would like an oppOr
tunity to answer before being inter
rupted. The witness will be allowed
to answer questions without interrup
tion,' said Judge Wood sternly.
Orchard admitted that while he was
in the Idaho mining country he be
came quite a gambler, playing poker
most of the time He declared il an
swer to a question that he was not
at Burke or Mullen playing poker
when the Warder explosion occurred
and reiterated his direct testimony
that he lighted one of the fuses tnat
blew up the mills. He said that he
did not know Haywood, Meyer OF
Pettibone at that time, and that as
far as he knew they were not in War
der when the mills were blov-n up.
Orchard said he left Idano after the
blowing up of the mills to avoid ar
rest,
From 1899 to 1902 he said that ne
worked an average of ten or eleven
months a year in the mines of Utah.
Nevada and Arizona. He gambled part
of that time, and nearly always lost.
he said.
Up to the time he went to Colorado
in 1902, Orchard said he mad never
heard of Haywood, Pettibone, Meyer
OF Simpkins There was no trouble
in Cripple Creek when he arrived
there He got work in the Trachyte
mine and Joined the Western Fedora
ton OF Miners local headed by w
F. Davis, who had been in charge of
the party that blew up the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mills.
Attorney Richardson asked the wit
ness repeatedly about his gambling,
laying much stress on this feature.
Orchard said he went out on the
strike with other union men of Grip
pie Creek in August. 1908. The strike
committee was composed of w. F.
Davis, Sherman Parker and man
named Kenniston. He reported to Da-
Wis. knowing the location of car
load of powder in the Vindicator mine
where he had worked, and Davis OF
fered MIN 5000 to touch off this pow
der. There were about fifty nOn-union
men working in the mine, and he be
lieved that touching off the carload
of powder would have meant death
to all of them.
Orchard said that Meyer and Hay
wood both came to Cripple Creek
during the strike, and in speeches
cautioned the strikers against vio-
lence, drinking and gambling. Orcn-
said the plan to touch off the powder
n the Vindicator mine was abandoned
because the mine was guarded, and
he could not reach the powder. Two
months later the matter was taken
I'D again at the suggestion of Davis
and Parker VIII Easterly. he said,
helped him experiment along the line
Of attaching a pistol to the lift-5ar
which the cage would lift discharging
he pistol into box of giant caps
which in turn would fire the powder
Richardson called Easterly from the
audience and he was identified by Or
chard. EasterIy, Orchard said, declin-
ed to have anything to do with the
explosion which he caused subse-
auently in the Vindicator mine in the
manner outlined. saying that as he
was an officer of the union he could
not afford to be mixed up in the mat
ter.
Orchard said that Billy Ackerman
helped MIN place the bomb in the Vim
dicator mine Mccormick and Beck
were killed a week later by the ex-
plosion. Orchard supposed their death
was due to this bomb.
When asked why he Informed the
Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad
Company of the miners plot to wreck
the train, ne said he supposed that ne
was a little jealous because he had
not been employed on the job. A re-
cess until afternoon was taken at
this point
WIDOW HOPES ORCHARD
WILL BE FORGIVEN.
Seattle. Wash, June IA dispatch
to the Post-Intelligencer from Walla
WaIla says: Harry Orchard has
done many wrongs, but l nope that
he has repented, now that he under
stands the magnitude of his crimes.