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More Infamies Coolly Confessed, But They Do
Not Help the Defence.
Says Mrs. Steve Adams Acted a's, a Blind in Stalk -
inn Judge Goddard.
Boise; Iaho, June 17.—To-day's de-
velopments in the cross-examination of
rHarry Orchard will hardly be of any
service to the .defence in its efforts to
save William D. Haywood from the
;gallows for procuring the murder of
iforuner Governor Frank Steunenberg.
;Lawyer Richardson put in. four and a
`half hours with the witness without
getting any results of value to his side,
:so far as could be seen by one not as-
sociated with the defence.
On the contrary, he did bring out
,one or two replies that were decidedly
'unwelcome, and, on the whole, strength-
ened rather than weakened the story
Orchard has been telling.
Defence's Plea.
Boise, Idaho, June 17.—(.A.. P. de-
patch,l—The derelict: in the Haywood
ease made an extended effort to -day to
show that Orchard had practically no
communication with the leaders of the
:Federation during his criminal expedi-
'tions, that he received no pay for the
Bradley crime or anything else, and that
;with ;jteve Adapts in a period of ex-
treme poverty, extending over several
anonths, he was reduced to the necessity
of stealing a sheep from the (Jlobeville
stockyards that he might have food.
Orchard, to a laughing court room,
confessed that he stole the sheep, but
stoutly denied that it was because of
,want. Ile insisted that all through
'that supposedly hard winter and sprtug
;ite continued to draw money from letti-
'bone through Adams, and explained that
:if he did not see the Federation leaders
it was because he was -lying low to
avoid capture."
Plot Against Non -Unionists.
This Glabeville inquiry developed an-
3ither shocking crime. At this Denver
suburb there was a diabolical plot—
'Orchard whore it Was inspired by Max
'Mauch; the defence claimed that
Orchard was its author—to dy nainite a
boarding house where 150 non-union
men lived, and itt preparation for the
fl. murder en bloc Orchard, Adams and a
man named Joe Mahalich broke into
Y two magazines stud stole 600 pounds of
h dynamite, which they lugged home at
night and• buried in their cellars. The
aa. crime was abandoned, Orchard said, be-
;& cause Haywood intervened and forbade
him to have anything to do with it. He
ee next told of returning to Denver after
receiving more money from Pettibone,
#4 He disguised himself as a soldier and
wore glasses.
Had Plenty of Money.
After his return he went to live with
• Steve Adams and stayed with him from
• Christmas, 1004, till February, 1905.
Richardson endeavored to show that
• both Orchard and Petii'.>ne had been
3l poverty-stricken all v-i,tter, but the.
witness insisted that 1 • t.h had been kept
ys well supplied with to ley by Pettibone.
All He Did T; as Cowardly.
'eta
atg
' Richardson asked the witness if he
sent any money he received for the
1,0X Bradley affair to either of his wives.
He said he had not. He supposed Petti-
est bone was looking out for his Cripple
Greek wife.
"But nobody was caring for your Can-
adian wife?" "No."
"Haywood said he. wanted us to shoot
Gabbert, because be felt the use of
dynamite would get everybody in
trouble." said Orchard. His idea in
continuing to kill was to get the ranch,
he said, Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone
<nF 'r• om sed him.
"' "And you were ready to kill every-
body in Colorado for an l$00 ranch?"
ele "I don't know about that."
Richardson reverted to Orchard's
gambling proclivities, asking what sort
of games Orchard played. He said he
yed faro, bank, draw poker, stud-
ker and black jack. He denied that
o had ever run a ga.nie, and insisted
eeel ;that he lost at gambling more often
than he won..
Orehard said he lurked about Judge
' t Gabbert's house several nights, hoping
for a chance to shoot him.
"Why didn't you go up and ring the
tee
alet door bell and pump it into him?"
talking about Orchard's accepting "re-
lief" or help front the Federation while
the Cripple Creek strike was on in 1903.
Orehard said it was true that he ae-
eepted it. He gat free supplies from the
Federation's. store.
"Oh, you did;' exclaimed the lawyer,
in the accents of triumph, "Well, will
you tell this jury why it was that you
were accepting- this relief when all you
had to do to get more money, as you
testified, was to ask Haywood or Moyer
and you could get it whenever you Want-
ed it?"
"Yes, sir, I will," answered Orchard.
"Well, then, tell them."
"1 took the relief;" said Orchard, "tee
cause
te-
cause Pettibone and Haywood said it'
would look queer if f were spending
money around there and not drawing
relief like the rest of the union men."
Richardson changed the subject with
some haste.
Capital and Labor in Orch'ard's Book.
As the examination has progressed it
has become more and more apparent
that Orchard has not been putting in his
time in the penitentiary reading what
the newspapers have had to say about
him or his story, but has been bard at
work on his own task, not paying any
attention to current affairs. And he
has written his hook in accordance with
his own ideas of how such a story should
be told. Its purpose was not at all to
prepare hint for this examination, but
ta set forth his experience for an entire-
ly different reason. A considerable part
of it is devr.tctl'to a discussion of labor
and capital from his point of view as a
working man.
tins
'Because I was too cowardly.'
"You never allowed anybody else to
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eall you a coward, did you, in those
did
daya?"
titer' "I don't know about that"
1 "You considered yourself a brave man,
Ila, didn't you?"
vet `I call all the things I've done cow -
cast, ardly.'
3o Mrs. Adams Aided.
ver; Orchard said that Mrs. Steve Adams
cies accompanied him and her husband+ when
a they stalked Judge Goddard at his home.
"How was she armed?" he was asked.
the: "She wasn't armed, she went along as
,els,F. a, blind."
tat' • ,Before he could "get' Goddard, Or-
eI
a chard said that Moyer, Haywood and
Wig; Pettibone all three told him to go down
'.tan to Canyon City to continue his attempts
on Peabody. The arrangement was made
at. Mover's home in.the Aberdeen flats,
e' This was the first time Orchard hod
esu brought Moyer into the ease for a long
while.
i ' Why He Took Relief.
• Orebara got in one or two good hard
rapes on his own account. They were
MURK
IN TORONTO.
Hotel Washer Shoots Down a
Restaurateur.
•
Crime the Result of a Wrangle Be- A ing in the other grooms:
tween Parties. "We asked him what he wanted, and
told him to go away, but he would give
and the wo bort rushed for the ataiprs to
call the police '
Boyd calmly walked down the stairs,
out to the doorway, where he paused to
roll a cigarette,Ott into the street he
went, towards a' lane.
�'he Nsarder.
1\';ludic was stints: in the neck, just
above the collar -bone, and was instantly
killed . Be fell in the doorway. Another
bullet' lodged in the wall to the left of
the doorway.
Mrs. Hawkins Called to Policemen Tur-
ner and;TMccrae who were on a car. Tho
officers'jell/mod off and arrested Boyd
at York and Richmond streets,
"11ave you a revolver?" asked Tur-
ner:
"Yes;" replied. Boyd.
Turner then took the weapon, a 38 -
calibre, from Boyd's hip pocket.
At the detective office Boyd would
give no address. He admitted that the
cause:: of the shooting was the woman
with whom he had been Living. Eo'.;would
not'give her name.
"I do not wane to disgrace her,"• he
said.
Little is known of Boyd, except -'that
he issaid to have come from Indianapolis
three or four years ago.
Vietiin of Good Character.)
Windle was a man of good character.
Fie' came to the city with his wife; from
Whitby • more than twenty years 'ago.
He, was • a waiter at the Queen's Hotel
.for ten years, and since leaving that
employment he had eonducted the res-
taurant on York street, He attended
Beverley Street Baptist Church.
Upon Boyd, when he was .searched,
was found a Crown Bank book, show-
ing a balance to his credit of %U".50, and
a withdrawal yesterday of $10.
Second -Hand Revolver.
Boyd purchased the revolver with
which the shooting was done at Singer's
secondhand shop, at Queen and York
streets, for $3, going from there to the
Warren Sporting Goods store, where
he purchased a box of cartridges. He
asked the clerk wlio waited ori hint to
load the revolver, which was not done.
All chambers of the revolver, a cheap
German five -shooter, were fouled, but
no empty shells were found.
The Woman's Story.
Mrs. Jacob Isaac's explains the firing
of the five shots, and tells the most
lucid story of the shooting. She said:
"1 was standing at the back of the
hall with Mrs. Hawkins, who lives two
doors down the hall from me. I heard
two shots in the hallway below, and
then Mr. Wandle rushed up and into
my. room, slamming the door. I was
about to go to see why he entered when
Boyd rushed upstairs, the smoking re-
volver in his hand, and passed me.
Mrs. Hawkins stood across her door-
way, but be ;brushed. her aside, and,
`forcing the door, went in.
"He searched under the bed arid be-
hind the cur*_,i ie and, finds
•
went out an on down the h' all l . o k
ho answer.
Toronto despatch: Following a quarrel "Then ha returned to my room and
with Edward Wandle over a woman, tried the door.
John Boyd bought a revolver and, fore- "I rushed to him and grasped his
ing his wayinto an upper room of Wan- hand, the one that held the revolver.
die's restaurant; on York street, where "I asked him what he wanted, and
told him to go away. He did not answer,
Wandle was hiding, deliberately shot but put his shoulder to .the door and
him. The tragedy occurred about 2.15. went in.
Boyd. left the place and was arrested a "I Beard several shots, but no cur
few minutes later in York street, when erwaslterr terribly afraid."downstairs rushed for the pollee.
•
he quietly handed the revolver over to It was in au inner compartment of
the police. He is charged with murder. Mrs. Isaac's room . that Wandle was
Coroner G. W. Graham will open an in- shot. Two shots took effect in the
quest this morning. body and one struck the 'wall
The trouble, which culminated in the At 100 Hayter street, the address
shooting, is said to have been brewing given and afterwards denied•by the pris-
for some days. Yesterday morning, oner, it was said. that Boyd lived there
about 11 o'clock, Boyd went to the res- "off end on.'
taurant looking for the woman in the Boyd Sends a Message.
ease. She is white, but has been living Boyd sent a message through the To
with Boyd for two or three years. Boyd, y g g
To -
got into an altercation with \Candle; ronto Messenger Agency at the Grand
and was ejected. \Vandle followed rim tjnion hotel, to Annie -Fletcher, 145
on his wheel, and, hailing P. C. Litre- West Adelaide street. He instructed
niouille, told him that Boyd was annoy- the messenger to say that it was froln
ing him. The constable offered to arrest a woman, and to ask for a verbal an-
swer. but Wandle would not press the saver. This was given, "All right."
matter. At the Fletcher house all knowledge
"If that man wasn't with you, I'd fix of the recent doings of Boyd was dfs=
„ claimed. It was said that he had
you, said Boyd to Wandle.
Boyd was again at the restauatnt worked for the elder Fletcher, but'had
shortly after noon. not been seen for months.
Several people had dropped into the Bears Marks of Scuffle,
place. Wandle was busy with dinner
when Boyd walked hurriedly into the Boyd bears marks of the scuffle which
store looked around, and called out: occurred in the morning. There is a
"Where is my wife?" large lump on bis forehead and- an
With that Wandle came from behind abrasion under his right eye.
a curtain in the rear, but immediately Maud Leonia is Bald. to be the woman
went back. Boyd followed and had hot over whom the trouble arose, and her
words with the proprietor for fully 10 or address 'is given as 64 West Adelaide
15 minutes. He then left in anger. street, about which place she was
At 2 o'clock, or thereabouts, he re- known as "Mrs, Boyd." • She has .tot
turned. Wandle saw him and dashed been seen about for several' clays, rind
the room which had been hers is lacked.
•tl, ,W. Curry, H. 0., is retained as
counsel for the defence. It is' under-
stood that he is employed by friends of
Boyd. He has not yet seen the prix
oner,
'WITH GUNS TO GET A DEPOt.
AU6 T[R
GOES T'
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To Prevent Vanderbilt's New Wife
Plucking Him.
Alleges Spiritualists Played Upon
His Weakness.
Some of "Bright Eyes" Spiirit Letters
in it.
NewYork, June 17.—Edward Ward
Vanderbilt, the lumber merchant who
got himself talked ,about in Brooklyn
,and elsewhere a week ago by marrying
"Bishop' Mary Ann Scannell, better
known. as Mrs. Mary S. Pepper, high
priestess of the Brooklyn Spiritualist
Church, laid aside the joys of the honey-
moon long enough yesterday to go be-
fore Justice Maddox in the Special Term
of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn to
contest an action brought to have him
declared incompetent to manage his af-
fairs and to prevent Mrs. Scannell -Pep-
per -Vanderbilt from getting most of his
property to the exclusion of his chil-
dren.
In her affidavit, which tells in great
detail how Mrs. Pepper gained cfontrol
over her father, Miss Vanderbilt ac-
cused "Little Bright Eyes," Mrs. Pepper
Vanderbilt's favorite spirit in the other
world, of having aided the medium in
making a dupe of her father.
Not only did he purchase the hand-
some home ih which he and his bride
are living, at 587 St. Mark's avenue,
Brooklyn, says the daughter, but he has
also given her large sums of money and
has recently drawn up a will in which
he leaves practically everything to his
wife and the Spiritualist Church.
"Before the death of my mother two
and a half years ago my father was one
of the best parents in the world," Miss
Vanderbilt said, "but shortly after that
he began to go to the Spiritualist
Church, and then his whole manner
changed. We lived at 170 Waverly av-
enue, which he owns. He did a large
business as a wholesale lumber mer-
chant.
"Hc. tried to induce me to attend the
Fraternity of the Soul Communion
Church, but after I had been there once
and met Mrs. Pepper I refused to go
again. It did not take me long to see
that he was rapidly becoming a changed
man as a result of the woman's influ-
ence.
"His business suffered, until to -clay
he Handles only a few commission trans-
actions. I soon learned that he was
squandering money on Mrs. Pepper and
that she had him completely in her pow-
er. Ire would receive letters from the
spirit `Little Bright Eyes,' and was con-
vinced that they were written by that
person, although the handwriting strong-
ly resembled that of Mrs.•Pepper.
"Through these letters I learned that
be had paid the expenses of her trips
abroad. Finally he purchased the St.
Mark's avenue house for her. Mrs. Pep-
per may deny that my father bought
that house, but I saw the papers. My
father paid $11,000 for the property, giv-
ing a mortgage of $5,000.
"Finally, last February, he told me
that he was going to leave the Waverly
avenue house and move to the home of
Mrs. Pepper. I asked him if he was go-
ing to marry her, and he said he was
not. He told me that I could have a
room in the new home, but I refused to
go with him. I left his house last April
and have been living with friends at 17
St. James Place since then.
"When my mother died father made a
will leaving everything to niy sister and
myself. Last winter he destroyed that
ttaill and drew up another, in which all
his property, with the exception of a few
thousand dollars, will become the posses-
sion of Mrs. Pepper. The few thousand
that he has left for his children is to be
managed by Mrs. Pepper, who may let
us have it or not, justas she sees fit.
"Mrs. Pepper gained her control over
my father by making him believe that
he could communicate through her with
my mother.
"I doubt that my father and Mrs. Pep-
per were married by an authorized per-
son. It would be easy for her to de-
ceive him into thinking that he was her
husband in his present state of mind."
At the home of Mrs. Pepper -Vander-
bilt, in St. Mark's avenue, it was said
last night that she is out of town, hav-
ing left Brooklyn on Saturday.
The alleged letter from Mr. Vander-
bilt's dead wife follows:
Dear Papa,—I am glad this is the last
letter we will have to write from this
'country—because it takes so long before
you receive it. The oneness of life in
the physical needs an expression, and
this is the only way I have of express-
ing myself to you. The trees, crops,
flowers can speak plainer to your con-
sciousness than I can without this me-
dium, for you see the manifestation of
them, and mine has returned to Mother
Nature. However, I am as real and my
influence greater in your spiritual be-
ing. We have much to tell you when
once more we can talk face to face. I
ant sure she will return to Lake Pleas-
ant the 19th, so as to be ready for Sun-
day, and so we will see you then. I
hope Bright Eyes will write you ail
about it. And now in the spiritual con-
sciousness of this eternal oneness, 1 am,
MAM1tfA.
Bright Eyes was certainly on the job
when it came to writing Papa Vanderbilt
all about it, as the following shows:
Dear Friend,--/ have had an awful
had the officials si�N+. muelawanted pa• tune to get a. tieket for my medy, got
through the door leading to the hallway,
just south of his place of business. He.
ran to the top of the first floor stairs,
turned, and went up the stairs leading
to the second flat.
At the first open door, where Mrs,
Isaacs has three rooms, he took refuge
in an inner apartment, crouching under
a table. Boyd came up to the top floor
excitedly. At the farther end of the
hall stood Mrs. Isaacs conversing with
Mrs. Hawkins, another occupant of the
flat.
Boyd rushed toward them, holding an
ugly looking weapon. Not a word did he
speak. He grasped the handles of two
doors, and, finding both locked, he hur-
ried to the other one, close to the top of
the stairs. '
In the meantime Mrs. Isa,aes followed,
"What do you want there?" she
screamed. "That is my place, and you
must not go in."
She grabbed the hand that held the
revolver, and started to pull him back,
but he broke away front her and jumped
across the narrow passage -way to the in-
ner room, where his victim. crouched,
trembling with fear. There was a shot,
Farmer, His Wife aztd D.aughtr Hold Up
,a Trolley Car.
Butler, Pa., ane 17.—Armed, with
shotguns and an axe, •William' J. Pofxe,
his wife and daughter, held up a Pitts-
burg and .Butler trolley car with 4 pas-
sengers at Wildwood this morning and
prevented the crew from proceeding un-
til a,speeial car with company officers
arrived on the Beene.; -
Poffe had placed' s. barricade across
the track and threatened to shoot any of
the crew or passengers who would dare
to try to remove it, He lead been prom-
ised a depot when the eontpnny crested
his farm, and got tired of the delay.
With the gone Poffe talked business and
for the Deutchland and she had an acci-
dent, so my medy had to change them I
got your check and had it all fixed now
she may have to go by the way of Bos-
ton she has telegraphed to England and
leaves here to -night., Anyway I will
have her at Lake Pleasant for the 20th
and I have much to tell you she is bet-
ter and I have told them she must go
home so 1 wont leave her till she is on
the steamer you can come over here
easy and cheap enough; but to go home
is 900 or 1.,000 marks and everything
crowded. I will be glad to see you and
tell you of all the things she did. See
you at Lake Pleasant sure. Yours,
BRIGHT EYES.
Judge Thomas will hear the arguments
on the application for a commission on
'Thursday,
THOUGHT HI DRUNK.
PUT SICK DOCTOR IN A CELL AND
. CAUSED HIS DEATH.
Police of New :"Cork Make a Bad Blunder,
and the Judge Censures Them for It
—Life Might Have Been Saved.
New York, June 17.—A coroner's jury
which to -day investigated the death of
Dr. Chas. A. Foster. the noted alienist,
tet ifirmed the result of an autopsy
by a coroner's physician that the doctor
died from uraemia. At the same time
the judge censured the police for having
placed Dr. Foster in a cell when he was
found acting strangely on the street
on the night of May 17. In effect, the
verdict was that the police had made a
blunder in the arrest of Dr. Foster, and
the jury recommended that whenever a
prisoner is brought before the police
officials charged with intoxication a.
proper medical examination should be
made to ascertain whether the condition
of the person is not due to physical
causes other than inebriety.
Friends of Dr. Foster who demanded
the investigation of his death claimed.
that his life might have ben saved had
the police called an ambulance.
SHIRT FOR ROPE.
Assailant of a Little Girl Hangs
Himself.
New York, June 17.—Arrested as a.
suspicious person as he was seen coming
out of a tenement hoose at 102 'Washing-
ton street at four o'clock yesterday
morning, a man who said he was Henry
P. Randolph, 26 years old, employed as
a driver for the Borden Condensed Milk
Company, committed suicide by hanging
himself in a cell in the Church street
police station.
He had torn his shirt into strips and
made a rope, which he attached to a ven-
tilating pipe, The police had already re-
fused to let him have a bottle. contain',
ing a white powder supposed to be pfo-
son which was found in his clothing.
Sergeant Ttilly, who made the arrest,
afterward took to the police station
Rose Asher, 12 years old, who lives in
the Washington street house.
She said that she had awakened at
daylight to find Rudolph in her room,.
and when she cried out he threatened to
kill her. The child was given into the
custody of the Children's Society and
will be arraigned with her mother this
morning, -
p
ers. • °; late folks to change I wrote you about
RIOT IN GALWAY.
Police and People in Conflict Over Raid
on Cattle.
Dublin, June 17.—The grazing war
is spreading rapidly and ,becoming
popular. The most serious alffair
thus far was near Athexrry, 'Galway,
at midnight yesterday. A large posse
of police opposed a crowd of persons
�s'ho were driving cattle off a farm.
The people stoned the officers. Several
of the latter were badly hurt, and
the sergeant in command ordered thee
posse to fire. The latter fired [repeat-
ed volleys at the crowd, and the raiders
returned the fire, finally oompetling the
officers to retreat, when the graziers
finished their raid.
Two or three farm houses have been -
fired into at night decently. The gen-
eral sympathy of the masses is with the
people, even in the case of many public
officials, which fact ties the Govern-
ments handis.
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DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.
Telegrapher Was Worried Because He -
Wouldn't Join Union.
Chicago, June 17.—Driven out of work
because of his refusal to join a labor
union, and preferring death to disloyalty
to his employers, Thomas Stack, a tele-
grapher, who resided with his mother at.
24 Division street, committed suicide
early yesterday morning by leaping from
a window in the apartments of his sweet-
heart, Miss Rose Brown, on the third'.
floor of a building at 112 Chicago avenue..
Miss Brown, who is a bookkeeper in a
cigar box factory, insisted that there was
no other cause for Stack's act.
"We were engaged, and might have- ,
been married b,efore this had not the
labor agitators annoyed him so much,"
he said, "Their actions drove him to,'
desperation."
TIMBER LANDS FIRE SWEPT.
Two Townships on C. A., D. & W. Rail --
way Ravaged.
Word was received yesterday by the
provincial lands department that bar-
est fires had broken out in the Town-
ships of Seeble and Papoonge, on the
Port Arthur, Duluth and Western
Railway. These townships are partly
settled, but the greater part is covered
with jackpino. Deputy Minister White •
had no information as to how verbena,
the fires are, but expects more ne1413 key
cloy. iJ