Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-06-14 | Page 1 | Story of King David and Uriah Caught Orchard

ST STORY RY Of KING DAVID AND URIAH CAUGHT ORCHARD Broke Down and Cried While I Being Questioned by Rich Richardson Ri Richardson h hardson ardson S Slayer of St Has Professed Religion and Believes His Sins Forgiven Boise Buise Ida Juno 13 The men who ire are battling to o save the life liCe of William WilliamD D t and the good name of or the Western Federation of or Minors made their greatest assault upon Harry Harr Orchard Orchard Orchard ard today when I carrying the review by Iy t of or his life of or crime down do n to his confession they bitterly tilled 1 I his guiding motives Six days they spent pent in iii stripping him before the tue jury jur ot every shred l of morality of char character noer acter and then suddenly turning upon ulOn him in lii final fierce attack they ought fought with Ith every means known to the i t raft to convince the jury that Orchard Has ta 13 committing a erlmo in hi falsely f caring away the lives Jives of Innocent nil i 3 In the hope of saving his own TIit y carried their attack to the very Yel language with which the witness an answered 5 ered their Questions and everywhere e they alleged by forceful Implication hit It was as put Into his mouth by b men r dm f Tears Came at Last flu rho series of quickly delivered attacks Rue Ju gas e to the trial amid the scenes cen centering centering around the he witness chair in Judge Woods court a of dra dram MI m If Ii 1 Intensity a compelling human hUmal in tc test that gripped and held every man manU 1 U il It woman who watched wa and listened failed when the recited to him Mv th HI tale tal of Jf f King David DaId D ld and Uriah that lift 11 McFarlane related to him hin he hl came ante seeking a confession Ho H B fought alight to save himself but the tIrS filial his Jils eyes ees and he rocked un nfl fly rily Ilk Ili a n fainting woman His vol voice e Ion erod to huskiness and he be hid his farr farl in a handkerchief Then he lie het steadied t himself and went on strongly str to the end lie Ife defended his motives mothes by i that lie ill bad finally found Cound true I conversion and In penitence had bad re oll to make all possible reparation ir h b freely frI confessing all McFarland had tuH tuli him that he was Wan R doing d a great ser sr s r rc v ic Ice e c for Oi 01 tha tho stat slate and that states were l In n to men who served them there ill no o other promise You knew that if you yon confessed to th the erg murder the state would put you ou out or ot the way wa ham Attorney Richardson Yes sir And Ami would do it quickly 1 I believed bellEv d they would put me out of ot ottIl tIl th way wa But somewhere re along the line the thought thou ht came to you OU that you ou could get gel out of it by laying it on to somebody o I ie o oNo No o sir that was not the thought a 1 all Motive of Confession Ani nd here it was that Orchard gave a ar r explanation of ot the motives moties that impelled Imp lIed him to U confess His voice olce foil 1011 to a low tone but there was no nother nos s ther show how of ot emotion Complete si silence silence lence gave save every evel oord ord to the entire room The whiz of an electric fan can over overhead I head bead was the sole accompaniment a of the thO recitation I Y thought lie he said ald of putting my m mOI sd OI out of but T I thought over my mr fast cast life I T did not believe In a hereafter at all ahl but I 1 was afraid to die and I 1 thought at times that I 1 had been f I urh an unnatural monster my crimes T Tad nd ad be b en so great that I would not be S forgiven Who told you ou that 7 No one ho wrote wrote rote that out for you No o one but after I had bad been sent a aIbl Hibl Ibl and had read it some I came to tho conclusion that I 1 would be forgiven if it I T made mad a confession of everything I T began hegan to think that the grave ve did not end ind e everything and I made up my m mind to tell teH the truth about the whole SO you ou thought you would make your our peace pea o e with the future by b having somebody om body else hung did you rou asked Mr fr Richardson Owed it to No sir I thlik any mar man can make his Ms peace pae with the future if he wants to I T believed it was my m duty dut to tell the truth I Idid did not see any other way regardless of if f the consequences to my myself myself self elf or anybody else I owed lowed it to so society socIety Iet I owed it to God and to myself The defense d suggested that If Orchard Orchard ard fird did not get the reference to his In opening what he had hall announced would be his last days das cross examination of ot Harry Harn Orchard Attorney Richardson counsel for tor William D Hawood Haywood turned suddenly on the witness and said Have H ve your our Usual talk with Mr Ir land Iad this morning l J 1 saw him bim for five minutes in Mr Ir hawleys Hawles office Orchard declared that tha t the Haywood I ase had been discussed but casually Mc had said he was quite ill with a I Iha heavy ha cold and just able to keep out of ur urb bed b During yesterdays examination Or Orchard Orchard Orchard chard said he had written to Moyer from Y V Wallace allae Ida Jd asking for some money mone Orchard had gone to Wallace anace after the first proposed attempt on Governor In r Richardson asked further about tile the th Moe Moye letter today todar wanting to know If Orchard ever received an answer to it The witness said s ld he had received no dl di direct reet t lt answer but as a result of the let letter letter letter ter Jack Simpkins gave g e him which li h l said paid Haywood had sent ot him Or Orchard Orchard Orchard chard only had Simpkins word as to tor toie ie r the money monty came from Wallace en route back to toC Caldwell C to assassinate St Or OrI I duty dut to society God and himself from or any other person it was suggested to him by b the oath he hc took when wh n he joined the Western Y stern Federation of Miners They read him the oath from the ritual but when they did that he expressed tho the belief that the lan language language language guage had been given ghen to him hini by the Al AI Almighty Almighty mighty ml ht For hours the defense hammered away aay on the motive of Raving his own wn life lICe They The sought to show it in the force of example drawn from the Im mi Immunity immunity of or the th Informers In the Mollie Maguires cases cass but this the witness would not admit Next they sought for forit fortt forit it tt in Orchards effort to bring Steve Stew Adams over or to the th state and then in inthe Inthe inthe the subsequent meetings with land and Governor Gooding Again they the fact that the wit nes hess had twice written his testimony out but Orchard repelled the thO suggestion tion tiun that it had been changed by b Me Mc Attorney Hawley or anybody else After ACt r that it was suggested that Orphan c had his future in tL Hit keeping of uland that the Pink Pinkertons Pinkertons ertons had sent money mone to his Isis family in Canada that he had been supplied d with dates to tc strengthen n his story and that hud had trained him as a stage manager would for his lila appearance on tIle the th stand but all these Orchard denied Hint of Having Been Coached Then they th tried to h show shoat him hini a pami pam pampered pampered petted prisoner fed fe from fr 01 the table of the warden addressed as Harry Harr by Governor Gooding GodIng und andl nd Warden Whitney given freedom and liberties that no other prisoner ever had lud h d in the world and all this consider implying directly lr tl that he would never be bc hanged for killing berg Then came caine a showing as to how tIll the prisoner one had been dressed and groomed for the th trial and lastly astl for climax they showed Orchard pleading for and saving saYing the life of or Bob Wetter Yett r condemned to death for murder Oreb Orchard ard admitted that he had appealed to Governor Gooding about Wetter and that later latr Gooding first reprieved Wet Wetter Wetter ter and then commuted his sentence of death to one of life Imprisonment Orchard left l ft the stand at after atter having occupied it for Cor a total of and hours Just be fero lero he was excused and remanded he went back to the hands of or the th prosecution prosecution tion timi and identified the casing of ot the tho bomb he planted plant d at the gate of Judge house hou in Denver Orchard is isto isto isto to return to the witness chair later be because because because cause the defense must lay the formal lines for Impeaching him and the state must mut still have the redirect examina examination examination examination tion Bradley Poisoning Case Immediately Orchard left the stand the state began b gan the corroboration of or the Bradley poisoning story Hon Mrs Irs Sadie Swan who as Miss lIss Sadie Bell Ben was vas ag a maid in the Bradley home Oliver Crook the milk man who sold the thc milk that was poisoned and P L McCrea McCreary ry 1 the chemist who analyzed the pol poi poisoned milk carried the revolting tale from the discovery because of its it bit bitterness bitterness bitterness that the milk was poisoned through the analysis that showed from from forty fort to sixty grains of strychnine in a aquart aquart aquart quart of or it Mrs Swan identified Orchard Orchard ard and connected him with the house homm they the all ull confirmed the date as within three e or four days of the tho explosion and Mrs Swan swore that she opened the front door to get the morning a afew afew afew few minutes before the explosion and saw nothing or on the steps There will be further lurther testimony as to the Bradley incident tomorrow Immediately after the noon recess former Governor Peabody of Colorado met Harry Orchard in the office of counsel for th thA prosecution The meet meeting meeting ing was wag unexpected as far as ns Orchard was concerned and when he saw Pea Peabody body bo y advancing toward him with hand outstretched he blanched and began to tremble I am ashamed to speak to you governor I am ashamed to look at you ou faltered Orchard Oh al right said Peabody laughing You need not be ashamed to speak SP I to me mc now Orchard Ore began crying and when Pea Peabody Peabody body bod succeeded c in reassuring I am glad that I did not kill you and that I am spared the thought of that crime crim at least lesL Orchard and Peabody spent fifteen or twenty minutes together and parted In Ina ina Ina a very ver friendly way MURDERER BREAKS DOWN FOR FIRST i I TIME SINCE THE EXAMINATION BEGAN chard said he and Jack Jaek first went on a weeks hunting trip into the St Joe Jo river country of Idaho They trav tras traversed tra the trail on which it was said Steve Stee Ste Adams had killed Fred Tyler tho the thoman thoman theman man for whose murder Adams has once been tried the Jury ju falling failing to agree The return trip to Caldwell was made by way of Spokane Simpkins said that as an a excuse for f going along he would say sa he was wall visiting locals of the Western estern Federation This would also allo enable him to draw expense money from the union Orchard said there was no no arrangement at the headquarters whereby Simpkins shoUld sho lcJ help In the plot vlot plotOn plotOn On this second trip to Caldwell Or Orchard Orchard Orchard chard said he and Simpkins were there for about three weeks The witness made several trips to Nampa and Simp kins to Halley Hailey Haile where there was a federa federation federation federation tion local X J During the time tini lila Ills attorney was trac tracing tracIng ing ink Orchards movements prior to the assassination of Governor Haywood seemed entirely unconcerned He lie read several letters which Mr Dar Darrow Darrow Darrow row one of the defenses attorneys s hand handed ed him i iC C ont tl nue d 2 I n STORY Of KING I DAVID ANn AND 1 URIAH CAUGHT I ORCHARD I Continued C from page age 1 Orchard fixed the date of ot his hs second E Caldwell Caidwell a fill aa som sm time n November Attempt Well w If It you ou and Simpkins went to aId well In November to kill why you ou do it demanded Attorney Attorney Attorney ney Richardson Ve We v did dd make an attempt but it successful Simpkins then went back to Wallace saying it be good for either him himself himself self or Orchard if It they were caught in company com pan Simpkins had agreed to come Or Orchard r chard continued but he began to get set scared after we were on the ground Now as a matter of ot fact asked Rich Richardson Richardson Richardson ardson was Simpkins with you any longer than it required him to visit the federation locals at Halley Hailey and Silver Sliver City lie He was with me at Caldwell Caidwell about a 3 week All at once orice No he was there twice started for home about Dec Dee 1 1905 and Orchard said he bad had not seen him Irom from that day to this While In Caldwell Caidwell aId well Simpkins helped him manufacture manufacture manufacture ture a bomb Was Vas that tho the bomb which killed enberg It was the same powder I later tater changed the casing from wood to tin Orchard denied that he had ever tried tri d to sell lIell what hat he claimed was a non freezable explosive Came to Salt Lake Orchard also left lett Caldwell Caidwell after the failure of ot the attempt with Simpkins He called Bill Easterly of Silver Sliver City up upon upon upon on the telephone and asked him If he want to come over to Caldwell and take part In a contract Easterly de do declined declined dined saying Baying he was waI too busy at home Orchard then went to Salt Lake Jako to get geta a man named Shoddy to help him Shod Shoddy Shoddy dy d however could not be found Returning to Caldwell CaIdwell alone Orchard went to the Saratoga hotel where he became acquainted with the of the place He Ho made no effort at conceal concealment concealment concealment ment Richardson wanted to know why It was that with plenty of opportunity to kill on one of the governors trips to lo his sheep B ranches Orchard had bad decided to usa us a bomb in the city Well Weli I 1 goI go disgusted with myself at a not being able to get him so I finally de do decided elded to use um the bomb born and get rid of the thing and get away awa said Orchard But you took the materials for a bomb TV when hen you OU first went to Caldwell Yes Yea sir And you ou intended to use a bomb from the Yes Ves sir If the opportunity offered Attorney Richardson Jumped over the details of placing the bomb at the enberg residence picking the witness up at Ut the point where he began to run back to the hotel botel after seeing ap approach approach preach the tho place of his death You were warm and excited when you ou reached the hotel you I was warm I tried not to be ex ox excited cited ed Cool Enough to Help You were calm enough to help the bartender tie up a bundle 1 I held my finger on the string while he tied up the parcel parce The cross examination here digressed to toa toa toa a plan Orchard conceived to ride a short distance on a train with and andset andset set tt the bomb In a grip under the gover governors governors governors nors seat With rUh the paraphernalia all iU ready r ady Orchard got aboard the train one day da but missed it The fact that others in the car would have Been killed in the explosion Orchard said did dd not appeal to him to Orchards actions after the I assassination of Richard Richardson son wanted to know if the witness had hadnot hadnot hadnot not deliberately gone to his room and scattered powder and plaster of paris about the place No sir I did not replied Orchard in a positive manner He said he came back to the hotel with the Idea of or cleaning up some things in his grip crip What that hat was In It Seme cayenne pepper potash and acid What That were you doing with the pep per perI I had It to put on my m shoes when necessary so 80 as to prevent dogs taking up my m trail The examination again digressed to show that while he was in Spokane Or Orchard Orchard Orchard chard called on Attorney Fred Miller now