The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-06

Boise, Ida. June 5.-Alfred Horsley,
alias Harry Orchard, the actual assas-
sin of Frank SteUnenberg. went on the
stand today as a witness against Will
liam D. Haywood and made public con-
fession of a long chain Of brutal, revolt
ing crimes done, he said, at the inspira-
ton and for the pay of the leaders of
the Western Federation of Miners.
- An undertaking by the special pros
ecutors for the state that they would
by later proof and connection legiti-
mize ais testimony opened the way
like a fioodgate to the whole diabolical
story and throughout the entire day
Orchard went on from crime recital to
crime recital. each succeeding one
seemingly more revolving than those
that had come before.
siekening Story of Crime.
Orchard confessed that as member
of the mob that wrecked the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mill in the Occur
d'Alenes. he lighted one of the fuses
that carried fire 20 the giant explosion;
confessed that he set the deathtrap in
the Vindicator mine at Cripple Creek
that blew out the lives of Superinten-
dent Mccormick and Foreman Beck;
confessed that because he had not been
paid for his first attempt at violence
in the Vindicator mine he had been
trcacherous to his associates by warn
ing the managers of the Florence &
Cripple Creek railway that there was a
plot 10 blow up their trains; confessed
that he cruelty fired three charges of
buckshot into the body of Detective
Lyle Gregory of Denver, killing him
instantly; confessed that for days he
stalked Governor Peabody about Den
YER, waiting a chance to kill MIN; con-
fessed that he and Steve Adams set
and discharged the mine under the de-
pot at Independence that instantly
killed fourteen men, and confessed that,
failing in an attempt to poison Fred
Bradley of San Francisco he blew up
him and his house with a bomb of
gelatin.
And he has more brutal crimes to tell
about that will bring his bloody career
down TO its end at Caldwell, where with
a great bomb he killed Governor Steun-
enberg. These will come tomorrow,
for he is TO resume the stand when the
district court sits again.
Listens Mortified to Recital.
The story was told to a tense-nerved,
rigid crowd that watched with staring
eyes for every move and word of the
confessing witness, a crowd that was
sickened and weary of it's disgusting
y
pleading Illness of himself at o'clock
in the afternoon secured adjournment
for the day. Orchard retained control
Of himself almost from the moment he
4 took the stand and if he suffered much
= he did not show it. His eyes were
boodshOt and his face notified in color
when he came into the room to con-
front the man whose life ne jeopardizes
He was plainly very nervous. He
seemed at first to lose a little of his
physical control. for he walked I'M
steadily as he neared the stand and
reached in an indefinite way for the
arm of the chair. He had trouble in
finding voice for a few minutes, but
only for q few moments. He quickly
steadied himself and was soon talking
IN the soft, easy tones that characterize
his speech. His manner was easy and
his gaze steady in any direction that
a question claimed his attention. His
eyes blinked little when he told how
he trailed and murdered Lyle Gregory,
but ais voice altered mere in tone. His
eyes met that Of Haywood several
times. ard the two Gazed fixedly at one
another in tests with hOnors even.
Intense Interest Shown.
Orchards entry to the court room,
after a dramatic pause, was itself in
tenseiy dramatic. Five witnesses who
traced Horsley and Jack Simpkins at
various times prior to the SteUnenberg
murder at Caldwell Nampa and Silver
CITY. and further fixed their move
ments by Identifying hotel registers
where they had signed their names,
consumed the first hour OF the morning
session, and then Senator Borah, look
ing toward the bench. said in a quiet
tone: 1T will be a few moments be-
fore the next witness arrives"