The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-12
TALE OF HORROR
Orchard, the Assassin of steun-
nenburg, Reviews His Crime.
ON WITNESS STAND

He Makes a Public Confession of a |
Long Chain of Revolving Murders
Committed at the inspiration and
For Pay of Western Federation Of
Miners Leaders, Who Are Now On
Trial for Their Lives.
At Boise, Idaho, Alfred Horsley,
alias Harry Orchard, the actual as
sassin Of Frank Steunenburg went on
the stand Wednesday as a witness
against William d. Haywood and
made a public confession Of long
! chain of brutal crimes, committed,
he said, at the inspiration and for
the pay of the leaders of the West
ern Federation of Miners.
An understanding by the prosecu.
tors for the State that they would
by later proof and connection make
his testimony legitimate, opened
the way like f1oodgate to the
whole diabolical story and through
out the entire day Orchard went on
from crime recital to crime recital,
each succeeding one seemingly more
revolving than the one that proceed
ed.
Orchard confessed that as men,
Der of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mill in the
Coeur D'Alenes, he lit ore Of the
fuses that carried fire to the giant
powder explosive; confessed that ne
set the death trap in the Vindlcator
Mine at Cripple Creek that blew
out the lives Of superintendent Nc
Cormick and Foreman Beck. He
confessed that because he had not
been paid for his first attempt at
violence in the Vindicator Mine, he
had been treacherous to his asso-
ciates by warning the managers Of
the Florence and Cripple Creek Rail
way that there was a plot to blow
up their trains; confessed that he
cruelty fired three charges of buck
shot into the body Of Detective Lyte
Gregory, of Denver, killing him in
stantly; confessed that for days he
stalked Governor Peabody, of Colo
rado, about Denver, waiting a
chance to kill him; confessed that
he and Steve Adams set and dis
charged the mine under the station
at Independence, that instantly kill
ed fourteen men, and confessed that
failing in an attempt to poison Fred
Bradley, of San Francisco, he blew
him and his house up with a bomb
of gelatine powder. Orchard has
more brutal crimes to tell that will
bring his bloody career down to its
end at Caldwell, where with great
bomb, he killed former Governor
Frank Steunenberg. These will come
tomorrow, for he is to resume the
stand when the District Court sits
again.
| Orchard retained control Of him
| self almost from the moment ne
took the stand. His eyes were
bloodshot and his face mottled when
he came into the room to confront
the man whose life he jeopardized:
| He was plainly nervous and walked
unsteadily to the witness stand. Or
chard 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 whence a
question claimed his attention.
| Orchards eyes met those OF Hay
Iwood several times, and the two gaz-
ed steadily at each other, with hon
ors even in the test.
Horsley was telling of the meeting
of the Burke, Idaho, Union, Of the
Western Federation Of Miners, when
the defense made its first strong at
tack by Attorney Richardson to the
testimony, on the ground that the
events occurred years before Hay
wood was a member Of the Central
body of the Federation, and that he
was in no way connected with it.
Senator Borah contended that
the State had right to prove the
facts about the Bunker Hill and Sui
livan mine for the purpose Of show
ing why the Western Federation of
Miners had taken umbrage at Gov
ernor Steunenberg. Judge Wood
ruled that the general facts were ad-
missible, but put limitation on the
amount of details that could be
shown.
Horsley then told the story of the
blowing up of the property, in which
he said, w. F. Davis, later president
of the Union of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners at Cripple Creek had
command of the mob. He told Of
the seizure of a train, the theft of
giant powder, the attack on the
mines. and, concluding said:
81 lit one Of the fuses myself:
Horsley then told of his flight in
to Montana and of various journeys
in the Western country until he
turned up in Cripple Creek in 1902,
went to work in the mines and join
ed the Western F Federation of Miners
again, under the fire of renewed OBJ
lection from the defense, all Of
which was overruled by the Court,
on the strength of a repeated prom
ise by the State to show the connec-
ton Of the defendant later.
vINDICAToR MINE PLOT.
The witness then told Of the plot
to blow up the Vindicator mine. He
confessed that after the strike be-
gan he went into the mine high
grading and there discovered a
quantity Of powder. He reported
this to Davis, and there. he said, be-
gan the plot to do violence in the
mine. He said that the first attempt
was failure, because the cagemen
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