Show REFUTING ORCHARDS STORY dav dav s takes stand for haywood ana another witness says orchard threatened to kill boise idaho Ivill viliam fam F davis of goldfield nev one of the most in i n witnesses dit nesses for the defon f P of william D haywood accused of the murder of frani fran ste Stem inenio enberg g w ts is called to the stand on wednes wednesday lay harry orchard testified that davis led and commanded the mob that de I 1 strayed the bunker hill and sullivan mill in 1899 inspired as the agert of haywood and moyer the kinli yin 11 cator explosion and the train wieck ing plot at cripple creek and w aia is an accomplice in the indea station crime oft oh direct examination by C ai ence darrow he went over the story of his working life including the pathetic story of the death of his wife and babe at cripple creek at whick be he wept and made positive denial of every statement of orchard that in evolved him or his associates in lay form of crime he lie claimed that I 1 e was not even a member of the union when the bunked hill and S i liin lumn mine was as blown up and at the coi co i elusion of his general stor swore that at cripple creek during tha e orchard told him of the he cules mine affair and threatened to 1111 1 ill mrs lottie lottle day of denier testified that in 1904 orchard told her abbit abo it the loss of the hercules interest ai d with it the chance to support the only woman he ever really loved and that he said he would kill sheun enberg for the wrong done him and john D elliott an old soldier swore that orchard told him on a train in idaho in the fall tall of 1905 that he wa na in the deml emilay loy of the mine and that there was a plot against the federation and its leaders cross llott ilott had twice been an inmate of 0 an insane asylum with a mind john M oneill editor of the min alin ers magazine was the only other wit ness during the day he testified that orchard came to his office ear ly y in 1900 and asked for the a ald adres reses es of governor peabody and general sherman bell whom he said bahout I 1 be bumped off 0 nelll neill said be lie referred orchard to a city directory the state used the cross of 0 neill to make it clear that the magazine was wap the official organ of the federation and expressed it views and to read to the jury som sneering articles about the death cf tf 0 nelll neill also said that he had seen orchard at fe artt n headquarters several times aad I 1 at stove steve adams and alid mr adams hal hat at also been there ed boyce was the principal witness in the haywood trial on thursday and his testimony was chiefly devoted to the eltory purpose and work of the western federation he denied the existence of an inner circle or that there had eyer ever been a conspiracy in it the organization to do an illegal act the chief importance of boyce s cross elaml examination nation was the production 0 of f a speech made by him at the con of the federation held at salt lake in 1898 in which he said that every union should have a rifle cl ib and every member a rifle so that the federation could maich march 25 aimed men in the ranks of labor mr boyce would not agree with the of the quotation william casterly La sterly one of the most important witnesses in the case cae was called just before adjournment and occupied the witness chair long enough however to directly deny the sta statement of orchard charging him with criminal misconduct in colorado |