Arizona republican., 1906-01-31
IDENTIFIER
 OF ORCHARD
Sheriff Bell of Colorado
 in Phoenix Yesterday
He Says There is NO Doubt of the Hanging Of Ex-Governor Stunen- bers'S Assassin.

Sheriff Edward Bell, of Cripple Creek, Colo. a square-jlwed gentle
 man, arrived in the city yesterday morning with a requisition for James Marsh. who is wanted at Cripple
 Creek for assault with intent to com
 init murder. Marsh is in jail at Bis
 bee. The acquisition was honored by Governor Kibbey, and the sheriff left last night for Bisbee after his man. Marsh is a miner. On ihe night of December 26 he cut a man at Cripple Creek so dangerously that for a time IL was thought he would die.
 Sheriff Bell has come into a great deal of prominence lately by his iden- tificatin of Harry Orchard, the al legged assassin of former Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho. On the nignt Of December 30 the former governor was entering the gate in front Of his residence at Caldwell, Idaho, when a
 bomb, which had been placed inside of the gate, was exploded. Both legs of Steunenb6rg were blown off and he died within a few minutes without be- ing able to speak.
 Among several suspects arrested the day following the assassination was one Thomas Hogan. He had been in lie CDulinu unity dDOuI IlINeeH udyS- anu he represented that he had come there for the purpose of buying land. though he did not leave the town at any time or talk to any one on the subject of buying land. There was found in his room at the hotel where he was ar rested pieces of fisn line similar to other which had been found in the vi cinity of the Steunenberg residence and by means of which the bomb had evidently been exploded. There was other material in Hogans room which might have been used in the construc- ton of a bomb.
 The first theory of the authorities. and is still their theory, was that the assassination was in revenge Of the official acts of the governor at the time of the Occur d'Alene troubles. six years before, and it was surmised that the assassin was probably one of the inmates of the bull pen" at that time. Sheriff Bell had for d long time been in search Of a man by the name of Harry Orcaard. who was implicated in the explosion at Independence, Colo. in which several non union miners were killed a year ago last June. That explosion. by the way, occurred on the day that Sheriff Bell went into office
 On his arrival at Caldwell, Sheriff Bell at once identified the suspect HO- gan as Harry Orchard. and soon after that he admitted that he vas Orchard
 Sheriff Bell. speaking yesterday of the case. said that there could be no doubt of the guilt of Orchard. Neither was there any doubt that he was the man who planned and carried out the massacre. There is suf- fcient proof of his guilt of the latter crime to hang him, but the sheriff said that the Colorado authorities will nev- ar get hold of him. He is bound to hang for the Steunenberg murder.
 Orchard, the sheriff said. has wife living at Independence but he long ago deserted her. After the Independ- ence crime Orchard for a time found refuge in Denver under the name of John Dempsey. Tn other parts of the he was known as O'Flaherty. | 1t has been proved that he was in the Occur d'Alene country at the time of .he trouble there and that he had been l confined in the bull pen"
 Regarding the attitude of the West ern Federation of Miners in this case. he sheriff said that i1 the first place | he officers of the Federation deny hat Orchard is a member of the or sanization. They say that they are in&iOuS 10 see the dSSeiSSillr -WiO-NeA l le may be. punished. but at the same ime the funds of the Federation are | being used for the defense of Orchard. l
 The sheriff related one circum stance which has not hitherto appear | ed in print, or at any rate in the dis patches relating to the affair. On the l night of December 30. when the news | ,f the assassination was sent out by |