The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-13
ORCHARD TELLS
STORY OF CRIMES
TAKES STAND AND TEETIFIES
AGAINST HAYWOOD.
MANY ATR0CIOUS DEEDS
Murdered Eighteen Men and Com
mitted Many Social Crimes Acts
Committed at Inspiration and for
Pay of Western Federation Of
Miners.

Boise, Idaho. ALFRED Horseley,
alias Harry Orchard, the actual as
sassin of Frank Steunenberg, went on
the stand witness against William
D. Haywood, and made public confes-
sion of long chain of brutal, revolt
ing crimes done, he said, at the in
spiration and for the pay of the
leaders of the Western Federation
of Miners.
The promise by the special prose
cutors for the State that they would,
by later proof and connections, legit,
innate his testimony, opened the way
like flood gate to the whole diaboll-
cal story, and throughout the entire
day Orchard went on from crime
recital to crime recital, each succeed
ing one seemingly more revolving
than those that came before.
Orchard confessed that as men,
Der of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mill In the
Occur d'Alene he lighted one OF the
fuses that carried fire to the giant
explosives; confessed that he set the
death trap in the Vindicator mine at
Cripple Creek that blew out the lives
of Superintendent Mccormick and
Foreman Beck; confessed that be-
cause he had not been paid for his
first attempt at violence In the Vim.
dicator mine he had been treach-
erous to his associates by warming
the managers Of the Florence and
Cripple Creek Railway that there
was a plot to blow up their trains;
confessed that he cruelty fired three
charges Of buckshot int the body OF
Detective Lite Gregory, OF Denver,
killing him instantly; confessed that
for days he stalked Governor Pea
body about Denver, waiting chance
to kill him; confessed that he and
Steve Adams discharged the mine un-
der the depot at Independence that
killed fourteen men, and confessed
failing an attempt to poison Fred
Bradley, of San Francisco, he blew
him and his house up with bomb,
and he has more brutal crimes to
tell that will bring his bloody career
down to its end at Caldwell, where,
with a great bomb, he killed Cover
nor Steunenberg.
The story was told to a tense
nerved, rigid crowd that watched
with staring eyes for every move and
word of the confessing witness;
crowd that was sickened and weary
of It's disgusting details. Orchard
retained control of himself almost
from the moment he took the stand:
and if he suffered much he did not
show it. His manner was easy and
his gaze steady in any direction that
a question claimed his attention. HIS
ewes blinked little when he told
how he trailed and murdered Late
Gregory, but his voice altered none
In tone. His eyes met those OF Hay
wood several times, and the two men
gazed fxedly at each other IN tests:
with honors even.
He crowned his admission Of grave
crimes when he made an explicit de-
tailed confession of the murder OF
Frank Steunenberg by an internal
machine that directly opens the way
for his own conviction and execution
for the mortal offense. lie swore
that the assassination Of Steunen.
berg was first suggested by Hay
wood, was jointly plotted by Hay
wood, Meyer, Pettibone and himself;
was financed by Haywood and was
executed by himself, after the failure
of an attempt in which jack Slmp-
kins had participated.
Orchard lifted the total of his own
murder victims to eighteen, detailed
the circumstances under which he
tried to murder former Gov. Peabody,
Judge Goddard, Judge Gabbert, Cen
Sherman Bell, D. H. Moffatt and
Frank Hearne. Incidentally he con-
fessed to plan to kidnap the child
of one of his former associates.
Then under cross examination by
the defense Orchard confessed guilt
of the sordid social crimes Of desert
ing his young child and wife in On
tario, fleeing to British Columbia
with Hattie Simpson the wife OF an
other man and committing bigamy
|, by marrying a third woman at Grip
pile Greek.
Through the shocking details OF
murder. plots, stories of secret bomb
making. and details Of man hunts
with sawed off shotgun and infer
nal machines as weapons, the witness
went on in the same quiet OF hand
manner. His voice dropped lower
kew as the pitiful story OF the long
hunt for Steunenberg narrowed down
to the aast day, and he told OF the
race from the hotel to the home to
heat his victim with the death trap
and the meeting in the evening IN
the gloom as the victim walked I'M
consciously TO his doom.
Gives Up the Fight.
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