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Show PLOTTED TO IMP THE CHILD OF FORMER PARTNER Orchard Planned to Add Kidnaping to His Many Crimes, and Attempts At-tempts to Involve Prominent Colorado Man. Doiso, Ida. Tho defenso on Wednesday Wed-nesday carried tho cross examination of Harry Orchard down to tho" actual-crlmo actual-crlmo charged against Wllllnm D. Hnywood tho murder of. Frank Stounenberg and aB It -progressed assailed tho testimony and .tho theory of tho stnto resting upon it nnd various points. Tho Steunonberg crlmo was reached at midday and counsel for tho defense directed their efforts to an nttempt to cloud tho earlier purposes nnd movements of Orchard with uncertainty nnd In-deflnltcnes. In-deflnltcnes. Then they emphasized the abandonment of all effort to kill after Orchard had first tracked Steunenberg Steun-enberg to a hotel In Ilolso nnd with a skeleton koy had gatned cntranco to tho very room In which tho governor was living. Here thoy delayed for a I moment to provo that Orchard twlco 'wrote and onco telephoned to Bill I Easterly at Silver City to urgo him I to como and Join In tho crlmo nnd 'tho direct complication was that Orchard Or-chard was endeavoring to Invclglo another federation man Into tho 1 crime, which would bring discredit nnd dishonor to tho organization. I Then tho Steunonberg crlmo wns 'temporarily thrust Into tho background back-ground nnd tho witness wns carried over hi long, diverting Journey into 'north Idaho and his crimes there, Including In-cluding tho dark plot to kidnap and hold for ransom tho Paulson children wero forcefully emphasized. Orchard sworo that Davo Coatcs, former lieutenant lieu-tenant governor of Coiorado, and then a publisher In Wnllace, Idaho, first ( suggested tho kidnaping to Pottlbono 1 and himself at Donver. 1 Paulson, onco a poor miner, hnd mado a fortuno In tho Hercules mine, In which Orchard held an Interest ' when tho property wns valueless, and It wns believed that If his children wero stolon ho would como through with $50,000 or $00,000 In ransom. Or-Ichnrd Or-Ichnrd said that when ho went to .north Idnho ho got Jack Slmpklns to como In on the plot nnd together they wont to Coates to renew tho schenio. Coatos, who was In court, was asked to stand up for Identification 'and, facing him, Orchnrd said ho was tho man. ! Then tho defonso showed tho witness wit-ness in tho ctnmisslon of a series of mean crimes, and reduced to poverty In -which ho hnd to resort to n pawnshop, pawn-shop, borrowing and theft to llvo for a long poriod. First ho pawned some jewelry nnd guns. This brought $25 or $30. Then with' n man named Cunningham Cun-ningham whom ho said Vincent St. John hnd recommended to him as safo and tried, ho discussed a project to glvo Cunningham tho old Peabody jbomb which ho still hnd In his trunk for uso by Cunningham 'on somo no.v lunlon mon nt tho Tiger and Poorman 'mine. Then ho ncccpted tho hospitality of Paulson's homo nt tho very tlmo ho wns plotting to stent tho Iaulson children. chil-dren. After that, with Jack Slmpklns. ho bioko Into tho Oregon Ilallway' & Navigation company's depot. Thoy wero after a trunk full of Jewelry' samples, but Instead got a trunk full of hoo samples. Next ho tnppcd n cash register at nurko for $30 or $10. , It wns a long era of crime nnd poverty pov-erty nnd hard luck and, summing It up, tho defeuse wanted to know why. jtt ho was In Idaho on a mission of murder for Haywood, Moyer and Pet- .tlmono nnd with unlimited credit from thorn ho did not send to them jfor monoy Instead of borrowing nnd I stealing. Orchnrd replied thnt ho did send a letter to Moyer at Iliitto and got $t00, but he did not send for moro bocauso ho was temporarily off tho Stounonborg murdor nnd away from whoro Stounonborg lived nnd ho did not want to 60011 for moro money until ho could show that ho was back at work. |