The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-16
HARRY ORCHARD TODAY
AMENDS FOR GRIMES
FAMOUS CRIMINAL NOW AN EX-
PERT SHOEMAKER IN IDA
HO PENlTENTlARY.

the Idaho state penitentiary is a
flower garden. Innumerable flowers
present a vivid mass of color. Clean
sanded walks lined with cobblestones
divide the different beds. The gar
den itself surrounds a neatly painted
shop where Harry Orchard, the slay
er of Governor Frank Steunenberg,
sits at his cobbler's work, says the
Boise Statesman.
Harry Orchards name is almost
forgotten. It was once known from
coast to coast. on the 18th of De
cember, in 1906. Governor Steunen-
berg was killed by a bomb which was
exploded as he opened his gate in
Caldwell The bomb had been placed
by Orchard.
The summer that followed was
probably the most exciting that Boise
has ever known Haywood. Meyer
Pettibone and Orchard were brought
to trial charged with being implicated
in the outrage. Orchard turned
states evidence and told his CHASTITY
story from beginning to end, declar-
ing that he was the paid hireling Of
the other men,
Shrewd defense lawyers secured a
separate trial for the prisoners. Moy-
er. Pettibone and Haywood were ac-
quitted-Orchard was sentenced to
Imprisonment for life.
Sensation Of the Hour.
The case attracted nation wide in
terest Newspaper men flocked to
Boise by the dozen. Magazine feat
ure writer's penned their thousands of
words relative to every side of the
affair laying stress on the human, the
personal side
And Harry Orchard was sent to the
Idaho state penitentiary for life. The
interest tagged although few mag
azines and papers still featured the
case and one succeeded in securing a |
serial written by Orchard himself i'm |
which he gave an account of his en-
tire life. In the prison he was put to !
work as a cobbler, shut from. and soon |
forgotten by the outside world.
The other day he was visited by |
reporter Orchard looked up from his
work as the scribe entered and greet
ed him with a pleasant smile. The
reporter saw pleasant-faced man, a
face bearing a few wrinkles, face
wreathed in smiles and a rather large
body with just a hint of rotundity.
His eyes flashed with humor. he
cleverly kept to his end of a CONVEX
sation which led through subjects
which any man might discuss with
trrI, of
living. public characters information
al questions, even the homely wea-
Their As a conversationalist Orchard /
is brilliant His general fund of in
formation appeared to be amending.
He carried off the honors in a friend
Iy argument because he had facts to
back his claims.
Shuts Up Like a Clam.
Only when the reporter made refer
ance to the famous murder case did
MIS- eyes lose their CLEAN and he APP
oeared nom committal OF publicity +
ne declared he had already received /,
90 much. When the subject was {
changed he was his former self good
witty clever apparently
,arefree d
The shoes that Orchard makes are 4
rood shoes. In his well lighted shop
which he constructed some time ago +,
With his own hands is approximately /
1000 worth of modern machinery.
lie buys the raw material and builds
very part of the shoe 5
His work shows the effects Of care
al effort. Every stitch is put in d
With the idea that it is to stay Prom
nent Boise people have their shoes
made by him.
Harry Orchard is a man reborn a
ccording to Dan Ackley. who has O.
cen associated with the penitentiary u
since Orchard was I
In place of the torturing .
emorse which haunted him after his 5
rhine has come over him a spirit of /
which would be hard to 1
uplicate in a person outside of the
alls.
BY this is not meant that he is not A
eeply sorry for the crime which he
ommitted The writer presumes
nat he still regrets with all his heart
is black record of crime His sin
Gritty of manner proves this. Perhaps M
is philosophy of life agrees with p
mar when he says: @
"The moving finger writes, and ),
lving writ moves ON nor D.
your tears wash out q word of it," ST
Perhaps he has drawn the conclu- o
on that past mistakes may be rec
fed only by present and future ac- $
ms and has determined to take life
he finds it, confident that even its -
cary future holds many things
)rth striving for.
And so the once famous murderer -
Dves in his little world. busy during
e day with his trade, working at
SIX in his garden. Later he per IN
es current news reviews that he q,
~ keep in touch with a world that al
Is cruel to him; that had once pc
own him and has now forgotten ~
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