The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
History of MOysr-HaIUOOd and PettibOne Case Most Remark
 able in American Courts
STEUNENBERG MURDERER
 WILL MAKE CONFESSION
At Trial of Haywood on Thursday Harry Orchard Will Tell of Grimes Which Have Terrorized Idaho
 for Fifteen Years.

Boise, Idaho, May 4-Wiliiam D. Hay wood. secretary and treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, will on Thursday next be placed on trial charged with the murder of ex-Gov Frank Steun- enberg. In all four men are in custody charged with the same offense. They are William D. Hayw jod, Charles H. Mover, president of the Western Federation of Miners; George A. Pettlbone, former member of the executive board, and Harry Orchard, a member of the federa- lion
 Of these men Orchard, it is alleged, has made d confession in which he admits that he killed the former governor, and in the same confesson it is alleged, im- plicates the other men under arrest, to- gether with others as being accessories before tho fact. Under the laws of Idaho, while it is admitted that Haywood, Mover and Pettibone were not in the state at the time of the murder, they are charged with the actual murder, the contention under the statutes being that they were tho spot in spirit, that they planned and therefore compassed the death of Governor Steunenberg
 History of Case.
 In it's main and lateral branches the s.s.aeoinplete history of the case extends back to the early period of conflict between union and non-urion miners in the Couer d'Alene district of Idaho, that narrow strip of mountainous country rich in lead and silver ore, under the shadow of the great divide between Idaho and Montana. The background to the Steunenberg case is the momentous struggles in the Couer dAlene extending as it did over period of seven years and involving the calling out of the state militia and finally the dispatch of United States troops by President Mckinley to the scene, centering around the towns of Wallace Gemm and Wardner
 To the part that the dead governor played in these days, furnishing as he did an example followed later by the gover- nor of Colorado, the prosecution goes for motive charged against the accused. It is alleged that for the purpose of revenge an evidence of unrelenting determination to carry on a campaign of terrorism, to impress with their power, daring and loyalty on and retain the moral and financial support of some g 900 followers, the members of an 'anner circle' of the Western Federation planned and executed a series of murders and acts of violence, medieval in conception, and Neapolstic in execution. It is charged that Harry Orchard and Steve Adams now under ar rest and charged with the commission of otier murders, were the hired agents and actual executors of many of these plots.
 Last Fifteen Years.
 These crimes, 1t is alleged, can be traced down through the last fifteen years through the days of the bull pen stockade in which several union miners were imprisoned in 1899 under guard of United States troops, again to the great Cripple Creek strike, and the more re- cent struggle in Colorado. Geographically, the action is confined chiefly to Colorado and Idaho, but Montana, Utah. Nevada and California are also states in which were enacted portions of the tragedy.
 Orchard has made a confession, it is said, and lies in the Idaho pen ready to take the stand against Haywood It Is ai- legged that Orchard will repeat his con- fession upon the stand, and as the chief witness for the state will relate story filled with plot and counterplots startling in development and execution.
 Steve Adams also made a confession, and it is expected he will be one of the witnesses for the prosecution, although Adams later under pressure of relatives, it is said, repudiated portions of his state- nlent.
 Frank Steuenberg, who came from hum be, masterful stock, began life as a printer joined the Typographical union, and throughout the greater part of his life was in strong sympathy with the
 
 gives ground for an important conten- ton of the case. On the one hand it was argued because Steunenberg refused to countenance as governor or permit vio- lence in behalf of the union he was stricken down as traitor by a mind that never forgets and an arm that can reach through years to strike when least ex- pected. Upon the other hand it is con- tended that his well known advocacy of union principles made it at once improb- able that his death was procured by union men.
 Most Remarkable Case.
 The murder is a pivotal point in the history of this the most remarkable case in American jurisprudence. for the events develop backward and forward from his assassination.
 steunenberg was blown to death on the evening of December 30. 1905. In the gath erng gloom of a stormy evening he en- tered the side gate of his residence at Cadwl. where, retired from politics, he lived the simple life of a sheep farmer A bomb of peculiar manufacture with a string attached was sunk in the snow be- side the gate. the string, piece of fish line, being fastened to the gate. As Steuenberg enetred the opening of the gate he sprang the trigger of the bomb He was terribly mangled. being blown nearly fifteen feet from the gate. He lived nearly an hour, was conscious and spoke. but his ruptured eardrums were dead to sound. and he died without know ing what had killed him.
 The explosion aroused not only the town of Caldwell, but the whole state Before the day was over it was suspected that Orchard had murdered Steunenberg- He had gone to Caldwell fropr Denver as Thomas Hogan, and variously claimed to be an insurance man. a buyer of sheep and a gambler. A search of his room in the hotel revealed the first definite evil