Show WAY PAVED FOR FREEDOM Acting Secretary Mills Believes Orchard Orchard Orchard ard Was Promised Pardon Denver Colo Cob March larch 18 I know nothing about abo what will be e done d with Orchard said James the detective who secured s cured the th confession of Orchard today He was never ner promised any immunity and never asked any I 1 do not know whether wh her his sentence will wUI be commuted or not liot Orchard Is truly penitent He made madea a clean breast of his guilt and told all he knew about It He told me he was willing to stand any punishment which the law Inflicted hll crimes He HeIs HEis H His Is guilty and he has confessed o sed his guilt He has told all he knew about those who vho caused him to commit his crimes Te T e fact that they were cleared by b juries makes no difference to him Opinion of Federation Leader Ernest Mills acting secretary for tor the Western Federation F of oC Miners said to today toda today day da that the Federation would remain passive In regard to the disposition to tobe tobe be ue made of Orchards case If It Judge Wood made the statement credited to him said Mills there Is little doubt but that he Is paving the way for freedom for Orchard It has been claimed all along that Orchard had been promised freedom by Govern Governor or Gooding of or Idaho for making the confessions he made at the trials That the political ring back of It has prom promised promIsed to go so down the line for Orchard is also a well known fact Pettibone Threatened Secretary Mills announced his intention intention tion to place in the hands of the post postoffice postoffice postoffice office inspectors anonymous letters which he said have been received by George A Pettibone and his wife since his acquittal of ot complicity In the murder threatening them with death President Charles H Moyer of o the Federation F recently left Denver for forSan forSan forSan San Diego Cal Ca to visit Pettibone who Is sick at a a hospital there |