TRIAL OF ORCHARD.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13313, 15 June 1907, Page 5

TRIAL OF ORCHARD.

,'SOME STARTLING CONFESSIONS. '"" ' ■ NEW YORK.' June 13. Orchard testified, that-he planned to blowup a boarding-house at. Globeville. where 150 unionists" were living, but Haywood discontinued it, and the plan was dropped. Received 10 .p.m., June 14th. -, . NEW YORK, June 14. Orchard identified Coates, ev-Lieutenaivt-Gover.nor of Colorada, as. the man who suggested to jointly kidnap and hold for ransom for 60,000 * dollars the three-year-old son .''of Mr Pawlson. a banker of Wallace,' Idaho: They, co-operated with Jack Simkin*. but the "plot failed. Orchard related that he secured a. room in a. Idaho, hotel where Mr Steunenberg was stopping, and that he endeavoured to place a- bomb with clockwork under Mr Steunenberg's bed. He admitted that he was willing to kill everybody in the -Hotel" except Himself. The rest of the cross-examination referred, to his further plots against Mr Steunenberg and his professed religions conversion in gaol. When plied with questions about liis%onversion, Orchard for the first time during the trial broke down and wept, mentioning that it was Bible stories that moved him to cnofess.