Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-06-15


Boise, Idaho.-Alfred Horsley, alias
Harry Orchard, the actual assassin OF
Frank Steunenberg, went on the stand
Wednesday as witness against Will
liam d. Haywood, and made public
confession of long chain of brutal,
revolving crimes, done, he said. at the
inspiration and for the pay of the
leaders of the Western Federation OF
Miners.
An undertaking by the special pros
ecutors for the state that they would,
by later proof and connection, legiti-
Matte his testimony opened the way
like fioodgate to the whole diaboli-
cal story and throughout the entire
day Orchard went on from crime re-
cital TO crime recital. each succeeding
one seemingly more revolving than
those that had come before.
Tells of Revolving Crimes.
Orchard confessed that as a mem
Der of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill in the
Occur d'Alenes he lighted one of the
fuses that carried fire to the giant
explosion; 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 Vindi-
Gator mine he had been treacherous
to his associates by warning the man
ayers of the Florence & Cripple Creek
railway that there was a plot to
blow up their trains; confessed that
he cruelty fred three charges of
buckshot into the body of Detective
Lyle Gregory, of Denver, killing him
instantly; confessed that for days he
stalked Gov. Peabody about Denver,
waiting a chance to kill him; con-
fessed that he and Steve Adams set
and discharged the mine under the
depot at independence that instantly
killed IA men, and confessed that, fail
Ing in an attempt to poison Fred
bradley, of San Francisco, he blew
him and his house up with bomb of
gelatin.
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 Gov.
Steunenberg. These will come Thurs
day, for he is to resume the stand
when the district court sits again.
Crowd Sickened by Recital.
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 its disgusting details long before
James II. Hawley pleading illness of
himself at three o'clock in the after.
noon, secured adjournment for the
day.
Orchard retained control of himself
almost from the moment he took the
stand, and if he suffered much he did
not show it. His eyes met those of
Haywood several times and the two
gazed fixedly at each other.
There were a few preliminaries as
to Horsley's birthplace and real name
and his first days in the North Idaho
cessful attempt at the indicator mine
country, and then Hawley led him
down to the destruction of the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mine. Horsley said
that w. f. Davis, later the 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 the train, the theft of the
giant powder, the attack upon the
mines, and concluding, said: Il lit
one OF the fuses myself"
rDestruction of indicator Mine.
Horsley then told of his fight into
Montana and Of various journeys in
the western country until he turned
up in Cripple Greek in 1902, went to
work in the mines and joined the
Western Federation of Miners again
The witness told of the plot to blow
I'D the indicator mine. He con-
fessed that after the strike began he
went down into the mine high grad.
ing" and there discovered a quantity
of powder. He reported this to Davis,
and there, he said, began the plot to
do violence I'm the mine. He said the
first attempt was a failure because
the cage man discovered him and his
pal and drew their fire, but later a
contrivance was successfully fixed by
which discharged pistol set off a
bomb and killed Superintendent Nc
Cprmick and Foreman Beck. Five
f&dred dollars, he said, was the re-
ward for the murderer
Then came the journey to Denver,
where the witness said he met Meyer
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