Connecticut western news., 1907-06-13

Foreman Beck; declared that because he had not been paid for his first at tempt at violence in the Vindicator mine he had been treacherous to his associates by warning the managers of the Florence and Cripple Creek rail- way that there was plot to blow up their trains; asserted that he cruelty fired three charges of buckshot into the body of Detective Lyte Gregory of Denver, killing him instantly; confess ed that for days he stalked Governor Peabody of Colorado about Denver, waiting a chance to kill him; testified that he and Steve Adams set and dis charged the mine under the station at Independence that instantly killed fourteen men and confessed that, fail ing in an attempt to poison Fred Bradley of San Francisco, he blew him and his house up with a bomb of gelatin powder.
 Haywood thought" said Orchard, that to allow Steunenberg to escape punishment after his life had once been threatened would have bad ef- feet. Haywood said also that if we did up 6lCuuChDCls lhCA WtolS iCtlcl . to Judge Gabbert and the other enc mics of the federation telling them that they would meet with the same fate if they opposed the federations wishes it would be all that would be necessary. President Mover also said that this would be the best way out of 1t and that in this way one murder would be sufficient.
 Says He Killed Eighteen.
 President Mover said, too, that it would be like living death for Judge Gabbert and the others to have the fear of being assassinated like former Governor Steunenberg constantly hang ing over them, so several men were sent to Caldwell to arrange for the Steunenberg killing. Among them were Steve Adams and a man named Me Carthy."
 Orchard lifted the total of his own murdered victims to eighteen, detailed the circumstances under which he tried to murder former Governor Peabody Judge Goddard, Judge Gabbert, Gen. eral Sherman Bell Dave Moffatt and Frank Hearne. Incidentally he confess ed to plan to kidnap the child of one of his former associates.
 Then under cross examination Or chard confessed guilt of the sordid so cial crimes of deserting his young child and wife in Ontario, fleeing to British Columbia with Hattie Simpson, the wife of another man, and committing bigamy by marrying a third woman al
 
 Cripple Creek, Colo.
 Murder of Steunenberger.
 Orchard told of waiting to shoot Gov ernor Steunenberg on Christmas night He waited outside the house and heard Steunenberg coming, but could not ge his pistol out in time. Finally Orchard reached the climax of his story. In $ steady voice he told of planting { bomb outside the Steunenberg gate He quickly returned toward his hote and met Steunenberg on the way. H. was block and a half from the hote when he heard the explosion.
 While Orchard was in his room a the hotel concealing certain evidence , giant cap exploded in his pocket, tear ing his coat to pieces. He said tha berg he and Simpkins had planted an other bomb at the governors residence but it failed to go off.
 The witness told in detail of tn plans leading up to the Steunenberi murder. He said that at conferenc held at the office of the Western Fed eration of Miners in Denver in 190 Mover protested against further act of violence in Denver and urged tha