The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-06
Dramatic Entrance Into f0urt Room of Star Witness in
 the Haywood Trial
PUBLIC CONFESSION OF
 INNER CIRCLE' WORKINGS
Wrecker of Mines, Trains and Slayer of Men Tells of Hire By Western Federation of Miners
 Officials.

Boise, Idaho, June 5-Alfred Horseley, alias Harry Orchard, the actual assassin of Frank Steunenberg, went on the stand today, a witness against William D. Hay wood, and made public confession of long chain of brutal, revolting crimes, done, he said, at the inspiration and for the pay of the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners.
 The promise by the special prosecutors for the state that they would by later proof and connection legitimate his tes- timony opened the way like a fioodgate to the whole diabolical story, and through out the entire day Orchard went on from crime recital to crime recital, each suo- ceeding one seemingly more revolting than those that had come before.
 Giant Powder Users.
 Orchard confessed that as a member of the mob~that wrecked the Bunkerhill and Sullivan mill in the Occur D'Alene, he lighted one of the fuses that carried fire to the giant explosive; confesser that he set the death trap in the Vlndicator mine at Cripple Creek that blew out the lives of Superintendent Mccormick and Fore man Beck; confessed that because he had not been paid for his first attempt at violence in the Vindicator mine he had been treacherous to his associates by warning the managers of the Florence and Cripple Creek railway that there was a plot to blow up their trains; confessed that he had cruelty fired three charges of buckshot into the body of Detective ,.f l. In stantly; confessed that for days he stalked Governor Peabody about Denver, waiting a chance to kill him. confessed that he and Steve Adams discharged the mine url der the depot at Independence that killed fourteen men, and confessed that failing in an attempt to poison Bradley of San Francisco he blew in the front of hs house with a bomb, seriously injurinS MT. Bradley.
 He is to resume the stand when the district court sits again. The story was told to a tense-nerved rigid crowd that watched with staring eyes for every move.
 Confronts Haywood.
 Orchard retained control of himself al- most from the moment he took the stand, and if he suffered much he did not show it. His eyes were bioodshot and his face mottled in color when he came into the room to confront the man whose life he jeopardizes. He was plainly very ner- vous. He seemed at first to lose little of his physical control, for he walked un- steadily, as he neared the stand and reached in an indefinite way for the arm of the chair. He had trouble in finding his voice for a few minutes, but only for a few moments. He quickly steadied him. self and was soon talking in the soft monotones that characterizes his speech. His manner was easy and his gaze steady in any direction that question claimed his attention. His eyes blinked little when he told how he trailed and murdered Lyte Gregory but his voice altered none in tone. His eyes met those of Haywood several times and the two gazes fixedly at each other.
 Orchard entered the court room, after a pause which was itself intensely dram atc. Five witnesses, who traced Horse ley and Jack Simpkins at various times prior to the Steunenberg murder at Cald- well, Nampa and Silver City, and further fixed their movements by identifying hotel registers, where they had signed their names consumed the first hour of the morning session and then Senator Borah. looking toward the bench, said in a quiet tonei
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 "lt will be d few moments before the next witness arrives.
 The crowd knew that Orchard was to come, and in keen expectation, watched the two doors of the room. 1t was to be a realization at last. The prisoner wit ness, long sequestered at the penitentiary was to be produced. Haywoods mother Mrs Carruthers of Salt Lake City and her daughter sat beside the prisoner and his I, V from Salt Lake City. Mrs. Carruthers is a handsome woman of middle age and her daughter is a pretty girl of 20. The prisoners two daughters are absent. Hay wood had a note book and at intervals took notes of the proceedings. Horseley had spent the night and morning at the office of James H. Hawley and was brought to the court house in carriage with three armed guards. Strangers en- tering the court room during the morning were searched for weapons and when Dr. chard reached the building the doors or the trial room were locked and extra deputies posted outside the rail. Sherin Hodgin stood back of the Haywood party and when he got sign from the judge that all was ready he nodded to MT. flaw ley.
 Guarded By Deputies.
 The chamber door swung open and out marched Orchard, led by Deputy Sheriff Ras Beamer. and followed by two peni- tentiary guards and two detectives, all armed. They walked him on the march around the rail and then faced the crowd, while he climbed to the witness chair. Far in the room man stood up to get a better view and a deputy sheriff shouted, "St down.'
 The other deputies instantly started for ward and if the man had not taken his seat quickly they would have jumped on him.
 There were few prelimnaries as to Horseley's birth place and real name and his first days in the North Dakota coun- try. then Hawley led him down to the destruction of the Bunker Hill and Sulli- van mines. He was telling of the meet ing of the Burke union of the Western
 
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