The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-06-12
CONFESSES MANY CRIMES.
Orchard Gives Sensational Testimony
In Haywood Case.

BOISE, June 5.-Harry Orchard. the
self-confessed assassin of q score OF
more of his fellowmen. sat in the wit
ness chair in Judge Woods court for
hours today and told a story of car.
mage and brutal, %cowardly murders,
without q parallel in the annals of
American criminology.
Without even q trace of emotion,
and at times with q repulsive non.
chalance, he recited in detail his
blood.curdling crimes. If he betrayed
any feeling, 1t was n Of satisfaction
in telling the incidents leading up to
the crimes and in connecting the men
he alleges were the instigators and
accomplices in the carnival of blood.
Orchard entered the court room sur
rounded by . dozen guards, among
them Buckley Wells, Bob Meldrum
and several other we'll known gun men
of Colorado. These formed . semi
circle behind him as he walked into
the court room.
In giving his testimony the witness
said he had been known 90 Orchard
for IL years. His real name is Albert
E. Horsley. He came to the United
States in 1896 TO Spokane; then he
vent 10 Wallace, Idaho, where he
drove q milk wagon for q few months
and also worked at Burke, Idaho.
Orchard confessed that, a q mem.
Der OF the mob that wrecked the Bun.
ker Hill & Sullivan mill in the Occur
d'Alenes, he lighted one of the fuses
that carried fire to the giant explo.
sion.
Confessed that he set the death trap
in the Vindicator mine at Cripple
Creek that blew out the lives of Su.
perintendent Mccormick and Foreman
Beck.
Confessed that, because he had not
been paid for his first attempt at vic.
lence in the Vindicator mine, he had
been treacherous to his associates by
warning the managers of the Florence
T. Cripple Creek railroad that there
was a plot to blow up their trains.
Confessed that he cruelty fired three
charges of buckshot into the body of
Detective Lyle Gregory, of Denver,
killing him instantly.
Confessed that, for days, he stalked
Governor Peabody about Denver,
waiting for a chance to kill him.
Confessed that he and Steve Adams
set and discharged the mine under the
depot at Independence that instantly
killed IA men.
Confessed that, failing in an attempt
to poison Fred Brady, Of San Fran.
cisco, he blew him INC his house up
with a bomb of gelatin.
And he said he had other brutal
crimes to tell about that will bring his
bloody career down to its end at Cald.
we'll, where with a great bomb, be
killed Governor Steunenberg These
will come tomorrow, for he is to re-
sumo the stand when the dirtrict cour,
sets again.
Word that Horsley was on the stand
spread through the city. and a few
moments after the doors of the cour,
were opened in the afternoon every
available seat for the public was TAX
en-, and a squad Of deputies had tc
force the doors shut and clear away a
clamoring crowd that jammed the
stairway and landing. Horsley spent
the noon recess under guard at Haw'
ley's Office, and at 1870 o'clock wa:
driven back to the court house to re
sume his story. There was no delay
this time and within a few minutes the
witness was on the stand telling of hi:
journey with Meyer and his return t
Denver, where it vas suggested. he
said, that he kill Governor Peabody
He said he picked Steve Adams to aid
him, and together they stalked thu
governor between the capitol building
and his home, trying for a shot at hin
with cutoff shotguns.
Haywood and Pettibone were in tn
plot, and furnished the witness will
money from time to time. The plo
failed because Horsley and Adams
followed q carriage containing tire
women, to the Peabody home and ex
cited suspicion. Next came a plot tt
dynamite Peabody, and Horsley sai'
they made a bomb, but gave the pla1
up at the suggestion of Haywood, VIII
was in fear that they would all be ar
rested. He said he and Adams wer'
told to lay off for a time, but mean
while, Pcttibone suggested that the!
kill Lyle Gregory, who had been
deputy sheriff and had given testi
mony against some OF the members o
the federation. The witness then de
tailed the relentless trailing of Gre
CORY, and his final murder.
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