The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-06-14
THE TRIAL AT BOISE
REMARKABLE STORY TOLD BY
HARRY ORCHARD.
ADMITS KILLING EIGHTEEN MEN
Defense Hopes TO Break Down Story
Haywood Has Six Attorneys
and State Four.

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lion OF Harry Orchard. by his own con.
fession the slayer OF Is men by bullet
and bomb is likely TO last through an
entire week.
Orchard has been on the stand in
the trial OF w. d. Haywood for IA
hours in direct aud cross-examination.
The state had him in hand seven and
n half hours. In that time he told
what appeared TO be an incredible
story. spread over the Al years of his
life
BEGINNING with the year 1895. he
unfolded a career in which. TO us the
language OF the leading counsel for
the state. assassination was a trade
and murder a means OF livelihood"
Is States Trump Card.
The state led out with its trump
card by calling to the stand Harry
Orchard. who says his real name is
Albert Horsley, but who passed under
various aliases. and who confesses
that he laid the bomb that killed
Steunenberg. With some leading ques-
tons he was led TO tell in detail a
long story OF various murders and at.
tempted murders, which nefarious
work he says he performed at the in
stigation and in the pay OF the Off
GERS or the federation OF miners who
are now under indictment in connec-
ton with the Steunenberg murder. He
said he was Canadian by birth. and
after moving into the mining region OF
the northwest became member of the
miners union and achieved a reputa-
ton by executing sentence of death
and destruction upon those who CD
posed the purposes OF the union lie
recounted attaching the fuse which
blew up the Bunker Hill mill in 1899.
OF attempting the assassination Of Gov.
Peabody. and recited in detail how he
and his assistant, Steve Adams. blew
up the station at Independence. Col. |
where fourteen non-union miners were
killed. The elimination OF his bloody |
recital came when he told of the muir |
der OF Steunenberg.
Tells Story Calmly.
AT the outset Orchard showed signs
OF embarrassment and had to be en-
copEased to make his answers audible.
but he told his awful story with re-
markable calmness and possession.
while the man he sought TO impli-
cate. Haywood listened intently to
every word and looked directly at him
evidently trying TO catch his eye.
which the witness avoided. The de-
Tense objected 10 the early parts OF
the story on the ground that they did
not appear 10 be connected with Hay
wood in any way, but the court over
ruled this objection. saying that such
parts would be stricken out IL not
proved germane Orchard told Of meet
ng Haywood. Meyer and rettibone al
Inherent times. when. he says. they
Daid him money for the various crimes
he had committed. and praised him
or what he had done. The whole case
hen appeared to turn upon the ability
II the prosecution to establish and cor ;
-oborate this testimony. ,
Hopes to Break Down Story.
Slowly but surely the defense is de- ;
-eloping the lines by which 1t hopes I
% break down the story OF Harry Or '
hard. so far as IL affects Haywood. {
low on trial. or Meyer and Pettibone.
VINO are yet to be tried on the same
barge. II il is possible TO heap fur
her obloquy on the witness they have
lone so by proving him capable OF T
city crimes ,
By his own admission Orchard Is a A
'igamist. thief. a liar and an incen- b
iary- he has played the traitor to his h
Employers. lie has deseyed two wives r
nd his children.
All OF these offenses he has been a
breed 10 confess. but under a Cruel Il
ng examination by Richardson he has d
tuck to his story and given chapter /,
nd verse "a
By their questions they have plainly d
dictated their intention to prove that Z;
richard was ne hired agent OF the
line owners. who. harassed by the
'estern Federation OF Miners. deter
lined TO wipe union labor from the
ines OF Idaho and Colorado. planned =,
train wrecks and mine
rplosions that could be laid 10 the ~
'or OF the Western Federation OF Min ~
s and keep militia on the ground !"
lille non union men worked the ~
ines. ei