Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-09
SHIPPED TRUNK
From SALT LAKE
Orchards Movements in This City
Tend to Strengthen Charge
Against Him.
ONE OF HIS FRIENDS SPEAKS.
Tells What He Did Sixteen Days Be-
fore the Murdcr---Was Bomb
Made Here?
ONE OF HIS FRIENDS SPEAKS.

The work OF the Idaho authorities to
locate the murderer of former Gov.
Franz Steunenberg. OF Idaho. and TO
fix the guilt upon him. will probably be
augmented materially by discoveries
made in Salt Lake concerning the rec
ord here OF Harry Orchard. alias
Thomas Hogan. Circumstantial eyi-
dence grouping itself about the sus-
poet now under arrest does not tend to
clear him from connection with the
crime aud on the other hand points de-
cidody to him as one of those con-
nected with It, If hot the perpetrator,
The famous trunk. found in his room
after his arrest, and which contained
materials used In the construction of
bombs. was, II appears. shipped from
salt Lake to Nampa. Idaho. on Dec. IA
OF last year ana on the same day Or
chard left for Idaho, on "A ticket to
Spokane with a IS day stopover at
Nainpu. to which point his trunk was
shipped He was nervous at the ore
gon Short Line depot, when the
train departed. and watched the
trunk carefully as 1t was put aboard.
When Orchard was first arrested tho
dispatches mentioned him as having
come TO Idaho from salt Lake The
problem for the police now IL TO trace
his life here fof the entire time OF his
residence, and particularly for the few
weeks preceding his trip into Idaho.
AN OLD FRIEND SPEAKS.
Some of his friends have already been
! located one OF them is Arthur Doolan
who, vita his wife, was at the depot
when Orchard left for Idaho on the
night of Dec. "a, rs days before the
murder. According to his statement
| Orchard lived az the Cullen hotel for
three weeks before departing. He play
| cd slough In the evening at the hotel,
| and while Doolan was intimate with
| him there, he was never invited TO his
| room. orchard mad another friend who
was with him most OF the time, but who
| did not share ais room with him. This
| man Is now missing and Orchard avoid
ed introducing him 20 any OF his
| friends
! orchard came here this time shortly
before Thanksgiving Prior to that he
| lad been In the city employed at the
| Keystone dairy. and as Is teamster for
| local contractors.
ORCHARD A RAMBLER.
He met Doolan on the street just be-
| fore Thanksgiving day, and as they
were formerly together at Cripple
| Greek. poolan invited him 70 his home
! for Thanksgiving dinner. HE talked
about cripple Creek" said Mr. Doolan,
"and reported that he had been ramb-
| ling about the western mining camps
since he got out OF the Bull PEN"
From the report made to Dooian. II
| Is thought that Orchard went from
| Goldneld over 10 Denver, and II the
miners union ~ implicated the plot
| was Matched there. and Orchard came
| back here with the stranger who disap-
peared with him, to perfect the plot.
| When II was perfected the two men
went TO Idaho, aud there carried 1t into
execution. Orchard was arrested In
connection with the Independence sta
| tion explosion on June 8, 1904 as he
had disappeared from Cripple Creek
| two days before the explosion and WIS
| caught at Cody, Wyo., three days at
| ter Il had occurred He was also ar
| rested IN 1889 for being mixed up In a
| plot through which an explosion oc-
CURED in the Couer dAlene mills.
The detective force IN Salt Lake has
been working on the Orchard case
| quietly for some time, with the hope OF
discovering that the bomb was made
| here, and shipped In the trunk to
| Nampa, and that Orchard was acting
under instructions from parties In Dem
yer, who had employed him.