The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-21
ESCAPED MURDER
AS BY MIRACLES
Western Judges and a Governor
Were Marked for Death
by Dynamiters.

Denver, Feb 21.-Evidence laid be.
! fore Governor Mcdonald to secure the
Secretary Haywood of the Western
Federation of Miners shows that bombs
We're laid for Justices Goddard and Cab
bert of the state supreme court.
Harry Orchard S confession in the
! Boise Jail told where these bombs were
placed, and General Wells dug up one
in Goddard IS yard. The other was ex
ploded by another man by accident the
day Judge Gabbert took a new route
| downtown, thus missing death.
! Governor Peabody failed to take
carriage one day when these three men
were lying in wait for him, but walked
to the depot, and the assassins did not
see him. -. 81: T.. ~: a.
The bomb placed at Goddard IS gate
wa, to be exploded BY a string ggG at,
without igniting the bomb. =
The bomb laid for Justice Gabbert
was to be fred by string attached to
lady's handbag left lying near it,
but the judge failed to see the handbag
when he passed it twice. Once a string
was stretched across his path, but he
took another route and another man
was killed by that bomb. ..
Various traps were evaded by Gov
ernor Peabody, who seems to bear a
charmed life, but he was finally pois-
oned by arsenic put in milk.
Career Of Orchard.
The Denver Times says:
"Harry Orchard, who is under arrest
in Idaho charged with assassinating
former Governor steunenberg, and who
has made a confession charging the
leaders of the Western Federation of
Miners with instigating number of
dynamite outrages and murders, was
in the employ of the Cripple Creek Mine
Owners association as a detective dur
ing the great strike in the Cripple Creek
district. This will be used in the de-
tense of. the accused labor leaders when
they are brought to trail in the courts
of Idaho.
"The following facts have come to
the Times from most reliable source
and have been carefully verified.
Orchard a Miner.
"Orchard was member of the West
, ern Federation Of Miners and employed
in the Cripple Creek district when the
Der, 1903, he approached conductor,
named Jones, on the Florence & Cripple
+ Creek railway, and introduced himself
! as a brother Mason. Il am member of
. the miners union;' said Orchard, Eand
last night [ heard some of the members
of the union planning to wreck a train
9 on this road. I do not believe in such
f you and tell Of the plot. l picked you
| out, because you are Mason
Clones Immediately took Orchard to
Scott and Sterling, the detectives fol
the mine owners association: He re-
peated his story and Scott and Sterling
Immediately employed him as a detect
\ i've to work for the mine owners asso
citation. He was instructed to attend
the meetings j.of thestunion and report
daily.
:. Disappeared After Tragedy.
f "Orchard.:continued in, the employ Of
: 1.-THE mine owners association unit
t June, 1904. The day Before the ex
5. plosion which wrecked the Independ
l. ence station he collected some life in
V surance due him because Of the deatl
e of relative.
g "Then came the. explosion of the In
V dependence station on June g. and Or
t chard disappeared: A mob took posses
d sion of Cripple Creek and Victor an
- attempts were, made to force comics
sions. from many suspected persons.
- young man was suspended by nj
thumbs and he finally agreed to tel
who had caused the explosion. Whel
he was lowered to the ground he said
l" Harry Orchard did it, Il.
t'The pursuit of Orchard was take
. up, bloodhounds being employed. o.
chard and a companion named Neville
% imme diately after the Independence e,
2 plosion, secured a rig and drove out Q
Cripple Creek. They went across tn
T country, avoiding the more importar
4 towns When they reached Greeley the
disposed of their rig and took a trai
O for Cheyenne, where Orchard received
considerable sum of money from friene
" in Colorado, and disappeared.
3 Returned to Denver.
g =. s'He. returned to Denver last Apri
~ visited the headquarters of the FEEDER;
y tion Of Miners in this city. He said /
. feared arrest because Of the charge
made against him in connection wit
- the Independence explosion, and ha
!. therefore changed his name to Hoga
For "a time he worked for various con
= panies in this city, and last April lie:
Colorado, saying he was going to Ne
- York. The next heard of him he ha
= been arrested in Idaho charged with tt
= assassination of Steunenberg. -
I "Neville was arrested in Wyomir
{ and taken back to Cripple Creek, but I
serious attempt was ever made i
, prosecute him. Sheriff Bell of Cripp
! Creek claims that Neville confessed
him that he and Orchard dynamited IL
! I station. 1t is said that Neville is no
dead. This latter statement the Tim
!, has been unable to verify.'
s Denial of Story. =
Representatives Of the Cripple Cree
I Mine Owners association positive
deny that Harry Orchard who is sa
!, to have confessed the assassination
L former Governor Frank Steunenberg
!, I Idaho, and to have reported that he W;
). { hired by the elmer circle' of II
) Western Federation Of Miners to COZ
! nit the crime, was ever employed /
the association or any Of it's agents
s. a detective or spy. They say that @
) chard offered to sell information to Il
; mine owners agents concerning pl
& to wreck a train on the Florence
5 Cripple Creek railroad, but that he W
regarded with suspicion and his prof
was rejected. After the Independent
81 depot disaster, it is asserted, detectiv