Connecticut western news., 1907-07-18
ORCHARD IN NEW ROLE
lnformer Is Principal Witness In
 AIIer Perjury Hearing.
PRISONER RELEASED ON BAIL
In Haywood Trial pr. Award Confirms Assassin's Account of Blowing Up of Concentrator at Wardner and Con tradicts Witnesses For Defense.


 tradicts Witnesses For Defense. Boise, Ida, July 17.-In the last stages of the case against William n. Haywood the prosecution put six wit nesses on the stand to rebut the evil dence of the defense. Three testified to conditions in the Occur d'Alene in | 1899 and three to the situation in Col orado during the strike period of 1903 and 1904
 The important witnesses were called to contradict the showing made by witnesses for the defense that there was no reason for the calling out of the militia of Colorado other than a desire on the part of the mine owners to drive members of the Western Fed eration of Miners from the mining dis | trict. One witness fiatly contradlcted the evidence introduced by the defense to show that the explosion at the Vim dicator mine was due to an accident Orchard In New Role. While the big trial was going on in the district court before Judge Ere mont Wood an interesting offshoot oi, the case was being heard in the small room used as a court by Justice of the Peace Savage. c. W. Aller. the depot agent, who was arrested charged with perjury, was brought before the mag. istrate for a preliminary hearing The state was represented by Prosecuting Attorney Koelsch and the prisoner by Peter Breen. an attorney of Butte. who has been associated with Hay woods counsel, having been retained by the miners union of Butte, Mont. to watch the case. Fred Miller, who was Orchards counsel at his prelimi- nary hearing in Caldwell immediately after the murder of Steunenberg, as sisted Mr. Breen.
 The principal witness in the perjury hearing was Orchard himself. The prisoner was brought in from the peni tentiary in charge of Warden Whitney and penitentiary guard.
 No more than q half dozen people outside of the principals In the case and the other witnesses were present when Orchard went over his testimony as to his connection with Scott, the railroad agent, who Aller swore inter viewed Orchard in Cripple Creek two or three weeks before the explosion at the Independence depot on June G. 1904. Orchard was closely cross ex- amined by Breen. but no amount of questioning brought out any material change in the original story. Breen was more severe in the little magis- trate's court than was the cross exam iner when Orchard was the star wit ness for the state in the Haywood trial, but Orchard maintained the same calm exterior and answered each ques. ton with quiet positiveness. A mum Der of other witnesses were examined. the case taking up most of the day. A motion to dismiss will be argued to- day. Aller was released on deposit of $2,5oo bond.
 Saw Orchard on Day of Crime.
 In the Haywood trial Edward AL yard, a physician of Burke, one of the mining towns of the Occur d'Alenes, swore that he saw Orchard on the day of the blowing up of the concentratol at Wardner and that he came from the train returning from Wardner. This lIilll WuS III DOSStNSloh VI NhN 'ipp that blew up the concentrator and kill ed two men. Award contradicted the witnesses for the defense, who said they saw Orchard playing poker on that day at Mullen, several miles away. The claim of the defense is that Or chard was not at Wardner and had no part in the riot.
 A. T. Holman swore in rebuttal of the testimony of Thomas Wood, wit ness for the defense, Wood had said that he saw Beck and Mccormick the two men killed by the explosion at the Vindicator mine. In the eighth level before the explosion and afterward found the bodies ill the sixth level. He said that Beck carried a revolver on that day and that he saw a box of powder on water barrel in the eighth level just before Beck and Mccormick went up to the sixth, where the explo- sion occurred few minutes later. The impression created was that the two men carried the powder with them and that Beck dropped his revolver. which exploded, and the powder went off. This would also account for the finding of the shattered parts of re. volver near the bodies. Orchard swore that he fired the powder with a pistol.
 Contradicts Wood.
 Holman was a superintendent of q neighboring mine aad formerly super. intendent of the yindicator. He was one of the first to go down tue shaft of the Vindicator after the explosion His evidence, given largely from pre- pared chart of the interior of the mine. contradicted Wood on many points.
 L. G. Ramsey, young man and relative of Mccormick, followed Hol- man. He was in charge of the powder in the mine at the time of the eSplo- sion. He knew Beck and McCormici;