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Show DECEIVED IB I That He Was in Plot to De- I ceive Mrs. Orchard as to j Husband's Whereabouts .test Effort of State to Place Steun- VW enberg Murder at Door of Fed- YMm eratlon Officials Defense Lays IK Foundation to Introduce lm-peaching lm-peaching Testimony. Boiso, Ida. Tho prosecution in tho K" Eteuncnberg murder trial offered ono H' of its most importnnt pieces of cvl mt denco ngnlnst William D. Haywood on Tuesday, when, recalling Harry Orchard for redirect examination, It Introduced and secured tho admission. Df four letters tending to show thnt Haywood, during thu fall of 1905, when Orchard swears ho was engaged-on engaged-on various crimes for the Federation-leaders, Federation-leaders, had participated In n plan to dccelvo Mrs. Orchard, tho second, ol mM Crlpplo Creek, as to tho whereabouts of her husband. Tho defenso attacked tho letters jH and Orchard's story about them when i It got a chanco to cross-cxnmlno thu witness, but Orchard held to the Wt story ho told about them. Tho wit-ncss wit-ncss successively denied that ho had mado an arrangement for tho deliv- cry of tho letters to Plnkorton agents,. MU that tho letters liad only made their ' nppcaranco since- he left tho stand IH last week, or that ho had invented HH tho story becnuso his wlfo had Hay- wood's lotter In her possession. MU At tho opening of tho morning scs- mU slon tho defenso asked Orchard n scries of impeaching questions. They all dealt with conversations In which mU It wns alleged Orchard recited his prlvato grudgo against Frank Steun tH enberg and vowed thnt ho would kill htm if ho hanged for It. Orchard de- nied every query both specifically and generally. Kd Boycc, onco president of tlm Western Federation of Miners, nnd H now ono of tho owners of tho rich mU Hercules mine, enmo nftcr Orchard, H and was still on tho stand when tho- MM court roso for tho day. Ho was called iH to Identify tho Minors' Mngazlno an j tho official organ of tho Federation, H and to pavn tho way for tho use as jflfl cvldenco of n great number of artl- Mm clcs from tho magazine. 'mm To combat tho theory that Orchard H killed Stnuncnborg in rovengo for his 1 H loss of n valuable Interest In tho Her- cules mine, tho stato on redirect ex- lH nmlnatlon obtained from Orchard a H declaration that ho sold his intorcst H In tho Hercules In 1897, two years be- jfl foro the strlko nnd troops came.. Tho defenso nttcmpted to modify this by !UM getting the witness to admit thnt ho JH had not sold bis interest In tho Her- H cules, but had pledged it, and could II havo taken It back any tlmo up to Mm his flight from north Idnho. beforo II tho oncoming of troops, hut Orchard jWI adhered to tho statement thnt ho had HI sold outright. mm |