The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-06
ORCHARDS CONFESSIONS
OF His BRUTAL MURDERS
Recited Tale After Tale of Crimes that
We're of Most Revolving
Nature

his guard at the trial. All strangers
entering the court room during the
morning were searched for weapons
and when Orchard reached the build
ing the doors of trial room were
locked and extra deputies posted out
side the rail. Sheriff Hodgin cleared
an aisle back of the seats of the
Haywood party, and when he got a
signal from the judges chambers
that all weas ready, nodded his head
to Mr.. Hawley.
Call Harry Orchard" said the
states leading counsel In loud tone.
The chamber door swung open and
out marched Orchard, led by Ras
Beamer and followed by two peniten-
tiary guards and two detectives, all
the crowd while he climbed to the
march around the rail and then faced
the crowd while he climed to the
witness chair. Far back In the room
man stood up to get better view
and a deputy shouted "Sit down."
The other deputies instantly started
forward and If the man hadn't taken
his seat quickly they would have
jumped for him.
A woman inside the rail dropped
her parasol. Its clatter drew all the
attention of the nervous crowd and
the guards who were there to shield
Horseley, until they knew what
caused the excitement.
Haywood leaned towards his coun-
sci so that he might get clear, un-
obstructed view of the witness stand
and for fully five minutes he gazed
steadily at Horeseley. The latter
was, however, giving his attention to
the states counsel on the other side
of the room and 1t was not until the
first interruption came from the de-
Tense that they saw each other. There
were a few preliminaries as to Horse
ley's birthplace and real name and
his first days In the north Idaho
country; then Hawley led him down
to the destruction of the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan mines. He was telling
of the meeting OF the Burke union of
the Western Federation of Miners.
when the defense made its first
strong attack. Attorney Richardson
objected to the testimony on the
ground that the events occurred
years before Haywood was a member
of the central body of the federation
and that he In no way could be con-
nected with it.
Senator Borah contended that the
state had a right to prove the facts
about the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine for the purpose of showing why
the Western Federation of Miners
had taken umbrage at Governor
Steunenberg. Judge Wood ruled
that the general facts were admissa-
BILE, but put limitation upon the
amount of details that could be
shown. Horseley then told the story
of the blowing up of the property, In
which he said that w. F. Davis, la
ter the president of the union of the
Western Federation of Miners at
Cripple Creek, had come from the
mob. He told of the seizure of the
train, the theft of the giant powder,
the attack upon the mine, and con-
cluding, said:
"I LIT ONE OF THE FUSES MY
SELF"
Horseley 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 Joined
the Western Federation again. I'm
der fire of renewed objections from
the defense, all of which was over
ruled by the court on the strength
of a repeated promise by the state to
show the connection of the defendant
later, the witness told of the plot to
blow up the indicator mine. He
confessed that after the strike be-
gan he went down into the mine
high grading" and there discov-
cred quantity of powder He re-
ported this to Davis and there he
said began the plot to do violence in
the mine. He said the first attempt
was failure because the cage man
discovered him and his pals drew
his fire, but later contrivance was
successfully fixed up by which a dis
charged pistol set off bomb and
killed Superintendent Mccormick
and Foreman Beck. Five hundred
dollars, he said, was the reward for
the murder. Then came the Journey
to Denver, where the witness said he
met Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone,
and entered their employ as an as
sassin. He swore that Haywood paid
$500 for blowing up the Vindicator
mine.
Then came the making of two
bombs that were to be sent into the
coal heap at the Vindicator mine,
but were never heard from again,
and then depression to confess that
before the successful attempt at the
Vindicator mine he had informed
the railway management of plot to
blow up its trains carrying non-union
men. Next the prisoner related how
he journeyed to southern Colorado,
as a guard to Meyer, and here the
narrative which had been attacked
from every side by the defense at
every material point, halted for the
noon recess.
Word that Horseley was on the
stand spread through the city and
few moments after the doors of the
court room were opened in the afteri
noon every available seat for the
public was taken and squad of dep
uties had to force the doors shut and
clear away clamoring crowd that
jammed the stairway and landing.
Horseley spent the noon recess under
guard at Hawley's Office and at 1870
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