THE AMERICAN LABOUR TRIAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8839, 15 June 1907, Page 2

THE AMERICAN LABOUR TRIAL.

Press Association—Copyright. New Yokk, June 14.

Orchard identified Coates, ex-Licuteant-Govemor of Colorado, as the man who suggested to jointly kidnap and hold for ransom for 60,000 dollars the three-year-old son of Pawlson, a banker, of Wallace, Idaho. They co-operated with Jack Simpkins, but the plot failed.

Orchard related that he secured a room in an Idaho hotel, where Steunenberg was stopping, and endeavoured to place a bomb with clockwork under Steunenberg's bed. He admitted being willing, to'kill everybody in the hotel except himself.

Tnerestof the cross-examination referred to his further plots against Steunenberg and his professed religious conversion in gaol. When plied with questions about his conversion Orchard, for the first time during the trial, broke down and wept, montioning'Bible stories that had moved hini to confess.