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ORCHARD CONFESSES OBIE, ASSASSIN OF STEUNEXBEKG OX THE WITNESS STAND. Makes a Public Confession o? a Long Chain of Revolting Crimes Committed at. the Inspiration and for Pay of Western Federation of Miners* Leaders. Eoise. Idaho, T>me "..-Alfred Ho. ley, ahas Harry Orchard, the actual assassin of Franst Steunenberg, went on the stand today as a witness against William D. Haywood and made a public confession of a long chain of brutal crimes, committed, he said, at the inspiration and for the pay of the leaders of che WesteVn Federation of Miners. An understanding by the prosecut? ors for the State that they would by later proof and connection make his - testimony legitimate, opened the way , like a floodgate to the whole diaboli? cal story and throughout the - entire day Orchard went on rfoosa crime re? cital to crime recital, each succeeding one seemingly.- m-re revolting than the one that preceded. . Orchard confessed that as a mem? ber of . the mob that wrecked the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mill in the Coeur D'Alenes. he lit \ one of the fuses that carried fire to the giant p powder explosive; confessed that he set the death trap in the Vindicator Mine at Cripple Creek that blew out the lives of Superintendent McCor? mick and Foreman Beck. rf's confess? ed that because he had n >een paid for his first attempt at violence in the Vindicator Mine, he had been treach- j erous to his associates by warning; managers of the Florence and Crip? ple Creek Railway that there veas a plot to blow up their trains; confessed1 that he cruelly fired three charges of j buskshot into the body of Detective ! Lyte Gregory, of Denver, killing him j instantly: confessed that for days he . x stalked Governor Peabody, of Colo? rado, about Denver, waiting a chance to kill him; confessed that he and Steve Adams set and discharged the mine under the station at Independ? ence, that instantly killed 14 men, and confessed that, failing in a:i at? tempt to poison Fred Bradley, of San Francisco, he blew him and his house up with a bomb of gelatine powder. Orchard has more brutal crimes to - tell that will bring his bloody career down to its end at Caldwell, where, with a great bomb, he killed former Governor Frank Steunenberg. These will come tomorrow, for he is to re? sume the stand when the district court sits again. Orchard retained control of him? self almost from the moment he took the stand. His eyes were bloodshot and his face mottled when he came into the room to confront the man whose life he jeopardized. vHe was plainly nervous and walked unsteadily to the witness.stand. Orchard quick? ly steadied himself and was soon talk? ing in the soft, easy tones that char? acterize his speech. His manner was ! easy and his gaze steady in any direc? tion whence a question claimed his attention. Orchard's eyes met those of Hay? wood several times, and the two gazed steadily at each other, with honors even in the test. Strong Attack by Defense. Horsley was telling of the meeting of the Burke, Idaho. Union, of the Webern Federation of Miners, when the defense made its first strong at? tack by Attorney Richardson to the te.-timony. on the ground thar the ; events occurred years before Hay? wood was a member of the Central body of the Federation, and that he was in no way connected with it. Senator Borah contended that the State had a right to prove the facts J about the Fumier Hill and Sullivan mine for the purpose of showing why the Western Federation of Miners had taken umbrage at Gt? vernor St( ' enberg. Judge Wood ruled that thc general facts were admissible, but put ? hmitatio-.i cn the amount of details that could be shown. Horsley then told the story of the blowing up of the ^property in which he said, W. F. Davis, later president of the Union of the Western Federa? tion of Miners at Cripple Creek had command of ; nob He told of the seizure of a train, the theft of giant powder, the attack on the mines, and. ccncluding -aid: .*I lit one bi the fuses myself." Horsley then told of his flight into Montana and of various journeys ia the Western country until he turned up in Cripple Creek in ?M2, went to v.-ork in toe mines and joined the Western Federaci?n of Miners again, under fire of renewed ?b*c-?tion from the defence, all bf which was over? ruled by the court, on the strength of a repeated promise by the State to show the connection of the defendant la'er. Vindicator Minc Plot. Tho witness then told of the plot to blow up the Vindicator mine. He confessed that after the ?trike oegan hf went into the mine -high grading;" ami there, he said, began the plot to and there discovered a quantity of powder. He r? .'ported -his to Davis, do violence in the min-. He sadd the first attempt was a failure, because th* cagemen disc-?vere.1 him and his pah and drew their fire, hm later a ce n tri vance was successfully fixed by which a discharge-.! pistol set off a bomb and killed Superintendent 11c . Cormick and Foreman . Beck. Five hundred dellars, he said. was the re? ward for the murder. Then came the journey to Denver, j ?where the witness said he met Moyer. ? Haywood and Pettibone and entered : their employment as an assassin. H I swore Haywood paid him $300 for : blowing up the Vindicator mine. Then came th- malting of th two .'bombs that were tossed Into the coal ? h<-.ap at the Vindicator miine., but they, were never heard of again.: and then a digression to confess that before tile 'successful attempt at the Vindicator-, mine. he. had notified thc railroad ! management of a plo* to blow up its j i 1 trai:ts cammi non-union r. ea. ' I Xexr Horslev related how he jour I . neyed to Southern Colorado as a ! 'guard to Moyer, and here the narra- j [ttive. which had been attacked from] ' every side by the befence at every j . material point, halted for the noon ! recess. j Tr-"..- that . Horsley was on the I ste ni spread through the cit.". and a few moments after the doors of the c :?t were opened in the afternoon everv available seat for the oublie ' hr," " ; i ha ; been taken and the deputies had j to force the doors shut and clear; away a clamoring crowd thai jammed the stair way and landing. Followed Governor Peabody. . Horsley spent: the noon recess un? der guard at Hawley's office, and at ' 1.30 o'clock was driven back to the : ; cour house to resume his story. ' He j j told of his journey with Moyer andi ?his-return to Denver, where it was ; suggested, he said, that he kill Gov? ernor - Peabody, of Colorado. He said j he picked Stove Adams to aid him. I and together they stalked the gov? ernor between the Capitol and his home, trying for a shot at him with shotguns. Haywood and Pettibone ? were in the plot and furnished the j witness with money from time to i time. The plot failed because Hors- j ley and Adams followed a carriage j containing two women to the Pea? body home and excited suspicion. Next came a plot to''dynamite Pea? body. Horsley said they made a bomb, but gave the plan up at the suggestion of Haywood, who was in fear that they would all be arresced. He said that he and Adams were told to ''lay off" for a time: but meantime i Pettibone suggeted that they kill Lyte Gregory, who had been a deputy j she. :ff and had given testimony against some of the members of the j Federation. The witness then detailed the re? lentless tailing of Gregory and his j fm al murder. "Gregory turned and backed up against a fence." said the witness, "as if to draw a gun, and i shot him three times . It certainly killed him." j The Independence Tragedy. Then came the frightful tragedy at Independence, followed by the flight to TVyoming. and afterwards the trip to San Francisco to kill Bradley. Horsely told his story of the Indepen? dence explosion in a low. hundrum cone, displaying not the slightest feel? ing. "Haywoood and the others said they were having trouble in the con? vention and there threatened to be split up." said Horsely. "They thought if something was pulled off in Cripple Creek the excitement i would make everything all , right in the convention, and the "^delegates would go home. We planned then to ?blew up the Independence depot in Colorado. I asked Steve Adams if j he wanted to help and he said he did. i I gave him th?, money to get the ! powder and we took the powder to a cabin near the depot at Independence pi eparatory to using it the next night. The next day Sherman Parker told rn? so nie of the men from the convention were coming up to Independence to make an investigatin of the condi? tions there and he told us to not pull the thing off until they went away. "They went away Sunday morning and the same night we placed the powder under the station platform, attached a wire to it and then await- ? ed for a train to come in. The trains brought non-union men to Indepen? dence. We used 100 pounds of the j powder. j 'Steve Adams and I both pulled the] string which upset several bottles of j sulphuric acid. This acid ran over a j b--x of giant caps and these set the I powder off. The depot was wrecked : a id nom twelve to fourteen men were killed." Horsely swore that after his visit to j Denver, when he got the money fdr j killing McCormick and Beck, he was constantly in commu-nicati? n ;;n<l in the pay of either Haywood of Moyer or Pettibone, Perkins or-Davis: that j one or all of them sugg-his va? rious crimes, and that at all meei ngs4 ht dd after e-*-h crin." his sets ha ' been warmly comen dod. Detfence Kepi Cn Vitacks. rainst the admission of every nu r- - il statement ?>f the wit ne -s. bet Judge Wood, acci pting for. the tim? the assurances of the State that h *ould make the connection every? where, ruled against the <1 fence on -?.ll points save one. He declined to i let Horsely tell the contents of a tele ! gram sent to him by at .San Francisco ; by Pettibone while Horsely was en , gaged in the attempt on the hie of Bradley; When taken from the stand E< rsely was at -'nee driven to the penitentiary and he will be brought back to town early in the morning. Haywood's mother. Mrs. Car? ruthers, of -alt Lake City, and her daughter, sat beside the prisoner and hi- wife, they having arrived y?sterr day nam salt Salt Lake City. Mrs. p< rruthers is a beautiful woman Of middle age. and brr .daughter is a pretty girl of 20. The prisoner's two daughters were absent. Haywood held a nate b%>k and at intervals cook notes' o ?the proceedings., MURDERED EIGHTEEN MEX. - / poise, Idaho, June G.-Harry Orch? ard crown-. .: his admissions of grave i crin. today when. continuing his case against William G.. Haywood, he made a detailed confession of the \ murder of Frank Steunenberg by an j infernal machine that directly opens { the way for his own conviction and j execution for thc- mortal offense. He { swore that assassination of Steunen- j berg was fust suggested by Haywood, j was plotted by Kaywood. Moyer. Pet- : tibone and himself, was financed by t Haywood and was executed by him- j self after the failure of an attempt ir; ; which Jack Simpkins had partie:- j pated. ! Orchard ?f?.ed the total of his own murdered victims to IS. detailed the circumstances under which he tried to murder former Gov. Peabody. Judge Goodar Judge Gabbart. Gen. Sherman Fell. Dave Moffat and Frank Herne. Incidentally he confessed to a plan to kidnap the child of one of his former associates. Th^n under cross-examination by the defense Orchard confessed guilt of-the sordid social crimes of desert la:; his young child and wife in Onta? rio, feeing to British Columbia with Hattie Simpson, the wife of another man. and committing bigamy by marrying a third woman at Cripple Creek. Through the shocking details of murder plots, stories of social bomb making and tales of man hunts with sawedoff shotguns and infernal , ma? chines as weapons, the witness went cn in the same quiet offhand manner that marked his demeanor yesterday. His voice dropped to lower keys as the pitiful story of the long hunt for SV unenberg narrowed down to the last day and he told of the race from the hotel to the home of his victim with the death trap and the meeting in the evening gloom as the victim walked unconsciously to his doom. Through it ali ho winced but once and that was when the defense made him rame his six sisters and his one brother and give their residence in Ontario and Xew York.' The de? fers.- fought the story with a multi? plicity of objection and succeeded in herding off an attempt to tell the story of the murder of Arthur Collins a: Teliuride and temporarily shut out the contents of a telegram received and a telegram sent by Orchard af? ra his arrest. Except for this the State managed to get in its story in? tact. . The State today began its corrobo? ration of Orchard's crimson tale by producing the lead casing of the Pea? body bomb. Orchard identified it. swore that he brought ii from Can? yon City to Denver and then on to Wallace, where he gave it to a man named Cunningham. It was thrown into the river, and the State promises later to prove its recovery. Haywood and his kinfolk listened quietly to the long recital and about their first show of feeling was one of amusement when Attorney Richard? son began his onslaught, and brought out Orchard's domestic crimes. There were the same precautions and the same armed guards today to protect Orchard and the same court room scenes except that among the spectators the women to men were as two TO one. There was another rush for admittance and the doors of tho court had to be closed at both f visions Orchard finished his direct exami? nation at 2..,'" o'clock and the cross examination only reached to the Coeur d'Alene day- of 1S99 when the court rose. The cross examination will be continued at 9 o'clock tomor? row. Hard <>:? Orchard. Pois--. Idaho, June 7.-Tim chief imprest in tb.- trial of the Western Federation of Miners' officials today .-. ).:.?'.-? irs Th-- question vein rh'tr Har? ri Orchard, the obi-; witness for the: ? fion ern stand the strain of j th -examinatiom Though Orch vv&s ?:i(.;...-?.-d ?o only twenty-one :; * cross-examination yesterday ? i : ;::-v -mowed tb- strain and it is ' believed the judge adjourned court] -.-;;> hv Orchard's accusations] is pr nhesied his attorneys;] : tand MUS. STE1 N'EXDEKG TALKS. " she !*<>p;^ !br Unsband's Assassin*; Will Bc Given a Chance j Walla Walla. Wa h.. June 7.-Mrs. Sttunenberg the widow of the former governor of Idaho, says in a state? ment that she hop s Harry Orchard has repented and will be given a chane? to l^ad a good life. Mrs. Steunenberg is attending a earoo rheexing of Seventh Day Adventists near herc She spends most of the time reading the Bible. She says the Hird of the labor leaders is the com? mencement of a nationa: struggle be? tween, the United States government and organized labor and will eventu? ally lead to rebellion. She exp! lined that her husbahd? never beheved his life in danger. ? A DESPERATE G AMP Orchard, the Vialti-Murdcrcr. Playing a Game With His Life os thc Stake. Boise, Idaho. June 5.-.That man is playing the game of his career with his own life as the stak--." declared a noted criminal lawyer in the court room here today, after listening to Karry Orchard, the principal witness for the prosecution recite his shooting men in cold blood, blowing them dp with high explosives, poisoning milk with intent .to kltk, and destroying thousands of dollars worth of proper? ty with bombs. Orchard claims that his sixty murders wore done ipr hire. The direct examination of Orchard is expected tb end tomorrow, v/hen he will -be subjected to as. severe cros? examinatibn as any man has ever un? dergone. 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Schedules of trains arriving and leaving Sumter [subject t?) change without notice.] Tr?iij * 3c-Passenger-Florence to Auguste, lea es Sumter .5 50 ans Train ;" t>*-Passenge -Columbia to V. tlnunjrtt n. leaves Samt?jr 7 30 am Tram ?4-Mixed-Sumter to Dallington, leaves* Sumter S Lo am Tri: n * .r>7-Passenger-Gio on io Sumter, arrives Sumter 5) 25 am Tr hi '* 52 - Passenger-Charleston to Greetrviile, leaves Sumter ?j :;i ?OJ Train 46-Passenger-Orangeburg t > Charleston leaves Sumter y 35 am : rain -- Passender-Sumter ' Lucknow, 5? 45 nos SST- Mixeu- " 4i Hot bin-, *' "~ io 0* mn Train * 79-Passenger-Fayetteville u Oolnmbia, " " 10 .5 am Train i-Passenger-Lucknow " Sumter, arrives M 5 50 pm. Train * 7S -Passenger-Columbia " Fayetteville, leave: " <; io pm '! : :n * 53-Passenger-Greenville " Charleston '* 14 6 4> pi? Train * 32r-Passenger-auguste *' Florence 4i " 6'50 pm Train * 56-Pa?-stngcr-Sumter Gibson " " 6 50 pm Train 4 7 - Passenger-Charleston " Orangeburg " " 6 .0 pm 'Lr .it. : :-xed- Bobbins u Sumter arrives ' 7 40 pm. irani 25-Mixed-Darlington " ** *' ;i 5 30 pm. Tr.-tin * 55-Passenger- W?unrgton ;<> Columbia leaves ** 9 -14 pn? Train 7--rassenger-Camden Sumter arrives *. 9 00 sm Train 71-Mixed- Sumter " Camden leaves u '9 55 am Train 72 - - Wilson Mil? " Sumter arrives " 12 30 pm Train 73- " - Sumter " Wilson's Mill, leaves *. 3 30 par Trail) ?'?.??- '* - <.'a:r?<t-~n 11 S. inter arrives t% 5 45 pm Train 69-Passenger- Sumter " Camden Laves k* 6* SO pm Note-All trains marked * daily. Otheis daily txecpi Sunday. .-.-. -.i Note- No. 32. Augusta to Florence, is through tram ; Stumer to Florance and will DO? sion at Jo'.'a? stations. 4. X. CHINA, Ticker A?ent A. C.