The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-03

the only occupants OF the carriage WeTe
three women.
After Peabody retired from the executive
chair and returned to Canon City the price
on his head was increased, 1t was there
that the bomb was laid for him. The chief
Of the Inner Circle was i~nsistent that Pea
body should pay the penalty, Orchard.
who had confessed TO the murder Of Steun-
enberg, was sent to Canon City, ~ostensibly
to solicit insurance. He took with him Il
bomb, which was planted for the ex-Gover-
nor and the wires were stretched to ex-
plode It. Peabody was walking along
toward the spot when a coal cart backed
in and started to unload with its wheels
on the wires. BY the time the cart got
away again the former Governor was out
Of the danger zone.
wREcKING A RAILROAD STATION.
Orchard Is said to have confessed that he
was one of the leaders in the plot to blow
up the non-union miners at the Indepen-
dence station. In order to establish an
alibi he got a man named Harry Neville
to leave Cripple Creek with him the day
before the explosion. Before he left,
however, he arranged for the explosion.
The 100 pounds Of dynamite was planted.
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necessary was to connect the wires at "a
central point.
When Orchard and Neville had gone
some distance from the camp the former
said he had forgotten his firearms and
started pack after them. The next morning
the station platform at Independence, on
which stood twenty men waiting for a
train, was blown up. The next afternoon
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Orchard of participation in the crime and
Orchard is said to have admitted to him
that he had pulled the string" which
caused the explosion in which thirteen
men lost their lives.
The two men went up through Wyoming
into Idaho. Neville began to worry and
took to drink. Orchard reported his con-
duct to the Inner Circle and orders we're
given to get rid of him. He was encouraged
TO go to Goldfeld. New, where the fedora
ton was supreme. One night he was
found dead-poisoned by cyanide Of potas-
stun.
The murder OF Lyle Gregory, a private
detective employed in the Southern fields
during the coal strike, is also laid to the
Inner Circle. He was shot to death in
Denver. He had done not a little to break
up the strike and to bring the law breakers
to justice.
II MURDER OF s~TEUNENBERa.
After Orchard confessed to MCFARLAND
he was brought before the Grand Jury at
Caldwell, Idaho, and told the story again
of how he brought about the death of ex-
Gov. Steunenberg. How determined the
Inner Circle was to get rid of him can be
judged by the fact that two attempts were
made on his life before he was murdered.
The bomb that was laid for him was much
like to one that was planted for Justice
Goddard in Denver. The string was at
tached to the gate at the ~Steunenberg
home, and when the Ex-Governor opened 1t
the mine was fired, killing him instantly,
Many other murders are laid at the door
of the federation, or rather the Inner Circle.
Included in the list are the killing Of three
men In the Smuggler-Union mine at Tellu-
ride. the murder Of John Mahoney, a miner
at Telluride; the murder OF Martin Gleason,
mine manage at Cripple Creek; the murder
of Wesley j. Smith of Telluride, who was
first kidnapped, and the assassination OF
Arthur L. Collins. manager of the Smuggler-'
Union mine. They are also charged with hav-
ing attempted twice to wreck an F. & c.
train at Victor, and with having caused
the explosion in the indicator mine at
Cripple Creek, in which two men lost their
lives.
As yet little has been made public Of the
methods employed by Mcfarland to round
up the gang. 1t will all come out proba-
bly, on the trial of the accused, just as his
methods Of getting evidence against the
Molly Maguires were disclosed, when
many Of the malefaotors in that band were
convicted largely through his testimony.
1t is known, however, that MCFARLAND
wormed himself into the confidence Of
some Of the Inner Circle. In an interview
recently he expressed the utmost conf
dence in his ability to bring the guilty per-
sons to justice.
M'PARLAND's STATEMENT.
at is a fact" said he, that the two mem
bers of the Supreme Court mentione d were
on the list Of the murderers. | believe
it is only right that the public should now
the truth, now that so many rumors and
statements have been sent abroad. And
what l nave to say ought to relieve the
tension. We nave the full details Of all the
attempts, nave verified them, and have
found them to be true. There is no cause
for further alarm. The instigators and
their tools have all been arrested and the
bombs have been secured"
In a statement concerning the assassination
of ex-Gov. Steunenberg Mcfarland says:
/ want to state officially that Harry Orchard
has made a full confession as to the manner
and motive of the assassination of ex-GOv.
Steunenberg. telling of the plans made and
giving the names of those making them.
The assassination OF eXLiov. Steunen berg.
which occurred at his own gate on the even
ing of December 80. 1905, was the third at
tempt that Orchard made against his life.
This confession was made to Capt. McPar-
land. 1t included n history of his life from
his early boyhood up to the time Of his arrest.
In that confession Orchard implicated all
those now under arrest and others. including
}. l.. Simpkins. He told the story Of twenty
six murders. the results OF conspiracies in
which all the accused parties were interested.
When this story is given to the public l be-
lleve It will be the greatest narrative of crime
which the world knows,
There has never been any doubt as TO the
truth Of Orchards confession among those
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