The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-11
ORCHARD S ST. DRIES OF
MURDERS VERIFIED.
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home, and after looking at the screw
/ eye and measuring the distance accord
3 ing to Orchard s diagram, General
1 Buckley Wells volunteered to find out
whether the bomb was still there.
The others retired to safe distance,
Il the judge and Mrs. Goddard watching
from the window of the house. #
Taking his penknife, Wells scratched
along the earth until he found the fish
hook attached to the wire. Then with
til he came to the sacking, which
Orchard, in Idaho, 500 miles away, said
would be found over the explosive. IA
81 have. it, he called, and the
others came, and saw and went. Now,
with the utmost precautions not to jar
tho treaeherous bomb and in any way
get the cork out of the bottle of acid,
the intrepid Wells took the thing out
of the earth, and guarded by his fright
ened companions. carried it to the CAPT
tol, where it was placed in the big
vaults
Governor Acted Promptly.
Governor Jesse A. Mcdonald heard
3 the confession, or the vital parts of
! 1t, read, heard corroborations and made
], some himself . over the long distance
telephone and telegraph, looked curl
ously at the bomb, consulted the at
torney general of the state and other
legal advisers, and granted the requisi-
tions for President Meyer of the West
ern Federation Of Miners, Secretary
Haywood and Executive Officer Petit
bone. Orchard said he acted under the
80 90 s~11 s4o1
4 that the order to assassinate Judges
i Gabbert and Goddard was given him
! by Haywood. :, =. 49,
A few points in Orchard IS confessions
4 have been made public, but the full
s details are now published for the first
time.
Sleuth on the Trail.
Three days after the assassination of
former Governor Steunenberg of Idaho,
the case was turned over to Mcfarland.
His suspicious from the first were di-
.rected toward Orchard, and within a
short time he had sufficient evidence
to warrant his arrest. go.
After Orchard had been taken a care
full search was made Of his effects. A
suspicious white powder On the floor
and a few letters in the closet were all
that the detectives found in the room
at the hotel to reward their search; but
in trunk at the railroad station in
which he was paying storage, was found
cipher code and letters from various
federation officers containing advice
and orders which have since been
found to tally exactly with Orchard s
statements.
for. the making Of bombs-materials
that needed only to be skilfully COM
bined to work disastrous results.
Confession Obtained. ...
With these evidences in their posses
sion the next step was to obtain a con-
fession from the prisoner. By Nc
Parland s orders Orchard was taken to
the Boise penitentiary for safe keeping
and placed in solitary confinement in
one of the death cells. A condemned
murderer occupied the next one.
The ordinary cot was taken from the
cell and q good bed brought in. The
best meals that could be obtained were
sent in three times a day, and three
men, in shifts Of eight hours each, sat
outside the door. Everything was to
be done for his luxurious comfort ex-
cept that he could not have the daily
papers, and under no circumstances, no
matter what happened, was he to hear
the sound of the human voice. The
death corridor was still as the grave,
the men outside the door sat like tomb
stones, the man who brought his meals
came and went without word.
The first day or two Orchard did not
appear to mind it, but amused himself
hv Gle ivy,
then to speak to the men by the door.
Dead silence met him.. Finally he be-
gan to get nervous and jump at the
sound Of footsteps in the distant CORR
dor. He became irritable and moody.
The third day he could not eat and
was very restless. The fifth day
brought nothing new until late in the
evening, when the warden went into
the cell and said gruf1y: Got every
thing you wants' r--'' T..
s.,.%-e Prisoner Was Worried.
eyes, said Orchard, who was
plainly worried, everything bang up.
But what is the matter with the stiffs
by the door?'
They know their business, respond
~
his heel and left him. ~, .
Two more days passed. Orchard was
eating next to nothing and getting DIES.
perate with nervousness. The silence
and anxiety were telling on him badly
Then MCFARLAND went in To his sur
prise, Orchard recognized him, and evi,
IDENTIFY glad of any human being to
speak to, greeted him with: ~ ~
II know you; you re old man Mac
1 We've got your picture
TT know you, too,' said Mcfarland
stsNice box you've got yourself into-a
]. a boy with as good a mother as you we
Il got.
sss4'.What do you know about my
mothere" demanded Orchard, startled
81 know all about you, from your
home in Canada up to today. I know
the people who took you in and brought
you, up like their own son. I know
that no boy in your town started ont
with better chances in lifS than did
you. Now look what you We brought
up against. Nice lot of ducks you re
in with, leaving you to do your own
swimming 7
ssBy God, they better not" .ex.
claimed Orchard, .fercely. g. :, ia =
sWell," said MCFARLAND, ri hope
they are taking care of you,' and then
! he went away and left the doomed man
9 to his memories. T. & r. =.