| Show HARRY ORCHARD TELLS HIS STOR Claims He Was a Paid Assassin in the Employ E ploy of Inner Circle of Federation x of Miners Details of Outrages in Western Mining Camps Beginning With he Trouble in the Coeur d Cripple Creek Cola Colo June 5 Six prominent citizens of this district left today for Boise to appear as state wit witnesses I nesses in the cases I includes A E Carlton Canton president of the First National bank anki I Austin Holman of the Western Investment company L L A I Arnold secretary of the Mine Owners association Major H A Naylor marshal marshai of Victor and D O I l Scott j I II I II I Boise Ida June 5 Alfred Horsley Horsle tUIas ilIas Harry Orchard the actual assas assassin assassin sin ln of or Frank went on the stand today toda as a witness against Wil Wll William liam jiam D Haywood and made public con confession confession of a long chain chalp of brutal revolt revoltIng revolting Ing crimes done he said at the Inspiration Inspiration tion lion and for the pay of the leaders of the Western Federation of or Miners tUners An undertaking by the special pros prosT KAn T tutors e for the state that they would by later proof and connection legitimize legitimize mize Is testimony opened the way like a floodgate to the whole diabolical story tory and throughout the entire day da I Orchard went on from crime recital to rime crime recital each succeeding one seemingly more revolting than those that had come before re Sickening Story of Crime Orchard confessed that hat as a member of the mob that wrecked the Bunker Hill t Sullivan mill mm in the Coeur he lighted one of ot the fuses that carried fire to 0 the giant explosion confessed that he set the deathtrap In Inthe the th Vindicator mine at Cripple Creek that blew out the lives ot of Superintendent dent McCormick J and Foreman oreman Beck confessed that because lIe he had not been paid for his first attempt at violence In the Vindicator mine he had been treacherous to his associates by warn warning warnIng ing lug the managers of the tle Florence Cripple Crek Cr ck railway that there was a plot to blow up thela trains confessed o that he cruelly fired three charges charge o of buckshot Into the body of Detective Lyte Gregory of or Denver killing him instantly confessed that trat for days he stalked Governor Peabody about Den Denser Dener ser er waiting a eh nce to kill him con confessed confessed confessed that he and Steve Adams set and di discharged the th mine under the de depot depot depot pot at Independence that instantly killed fourteen men and confessed confess d that falling tailing in an attempt to poison polson Fred Bradley Bradle of or San Francisco he blew up him and his house with a bomb of ot gelatin gelati And he has ha more brutal crimes to tell teU about that will bring his bloody blood career down to its end at Caldwell where with witha a great bomb he killed Governor enberg These will wUl come comb tomorrow for he is to 10 resume the stand when the district court sits again Listens Horrified to Recital The story was told to a rigid crowd that watched with staring eyes for every move and word of or the confessing witness a crowd that was sickened and weary of ot its disgusting details long before bt fore James JamesH H Hawley pleading Illness of or himself himsel at 3 in the afternoon a secured adjournment for the day da Orchard retained control cf himself almost from the moment he heA 1 took the stand and if it he suffered much muche A he e did not show it His eyes were bloodshot and his face mottled in color when hen he came into the room to con confront confront confront front the man whose life he jeopardizes He Ho was plainly very nervous He seemed at first to lose a little of or his physical control for he walked un unsteadily unsteadily unsteadily steadily as he neared the stand and I reached In an indefinite way for the theann arm ann of or the chair He had trouble in I finding voice for a few minutes but i ionly only for a few moments He quickly steadied himself and was soon talking In the soft easy tones that characterize his Jis speech His manner was easy and his gaze steady in any direction that thata a question questOn claimed his attention His Ills eyes blinked a little when he told how h lv trailed and murdered Lyte Gregory but his voice altered nue iri intone tone His 15 met that of ot Harwood several times and ard the two fixedly fixed I at one r in tests with honors even Intense interest Shown Orchards entry to the court room after a dramatis pause was itself it elf in intensely intensely intensely tensely dramatic Five witnesses who traced Horsley and Jack Jaek Simpkins at various times timeR prior to the murder at Caldwell Nampa and Silver Sliver C City and further fixed their move movements movements ments by Identifying hotel registers I where they the had signed their names consumed the first h ur of the morning session and then Senator Borah look looking lookin lookIng ing in toward tow rd the bench said in a quiet tOne t ne It will be bo a few ca moments be bc before before I fore the th next witness arrives I The crowd knew Orchard was to come and in keen expectancy watched the two doors of or the room It was to tobe tobe tobe be realization at list The prisoner witness long sequestered at the peni penitentiary penitentiary was to be produced mother Mrs Carruthers of Salt Lake City and her daughter sat beside the prisoner and his wife the they having arrived here yesterday I from Salt Lake City Mrs Irs Carruthers I is a handsome woman of middle age and her daughter is a pretty girl girt of 20 The prisoners two daughters were ab absent absent absent sent Haywood held a notebook and a d at Intervals took notes of the proceedings None of or the Haywood Hawood group could see either cither door without turning In their seats and md while they steadily faced front they showed their expectancy for the appearance of the man whose I testimony may mean so much to them themI Horsley Horsle had spent the night and I morning at the office of or James Tames H Haw Hawley Icy ley and was brought to the court house housein I in a carriage with three armed guards In the chambers of the judge he was I turned over to Deputy Sheriff Sherif Ras Bea Beamer Beamer mer who is to be his special guard at atthe atthe the trial Strangers entering the court courtroom courtroom I I room during the morning were searched I Ifor for weapons capons and when Orchard reached I the building the doors of or the trial room ro m were locked and extra deputies posted outside the rail Sheriff Sherif Shad Hodgin cleared an aisle back of the scats seats of the Haywood party and when he got a signal from the judges chambers that lilt all was ready re dy nodded his hS head to Mr Hawley t can Call Harry Harr Orchard said Eald the th states leading counsel in a loud tone The chambers door swung open and out marched Orchard led by Ras Has Bea Beamer Beamer Beamer mer and followed by two penitentiary guards and two detectives all an armed They The walled him on the march around the rail ran and then faced the crowd while white he lie climbed to the witness chair Far back in the th room a man stood up to get geta a better view and a n deputy shouted Sit down own The other deputies in instantly Instantly instantly started forward and if it the man had not taken his seat quickly they the would have jumped for him himA A woman Inside the rail dropped her parasol Its clatter drew all the at attention attention attention of jf the th nervous and the men who were there to shield Horsley Horsle until they understood what was happening Details of Terrible Crime I leaned down between his counsel so that he might get a clear unobstructed view of the witness wi ness stand I and for fully full five live minutes he gazed steadily at Horsley Horsle The latter was vas however giving his attention to the states counsel on the other side of the loom zoom and It was not until the tile first In Interruption interruption interruption came from the defense that the two saw each other There were w re a afew afew afew few preliminaries as to Horsleys birth birthplace birthplace birthplace place and real name and his first days das dasIn In the north Idaho country and then Hawley led him down to the destruction destruction tion of the Bunker Hill Sullivan mine He was telling of the meeting of or orthe the Burke union of or the Western Fed Federation Federation Federation of Miners when the defense made its first strong attack Attorney Richardson objected to the testimony on the ground the events en occurred years ears before Haywood vas nas as a member of or the central body of the federation and that he in no way could be con connected connected with it Senator Borah contended that the state had a right to prove the facts about the Bunker Hilt Hill Sullivan mine for the tIme purpose of or showing why the Western Federation of or Miners had Md taken umbrage at Governor berg Judge Wood ruled that the gen general general eral facts acts were admissible but put a limitation on the amount of details that could be shown Horsley then told the story of the tho blowing up of the prop property property erty rt in which he lie said that W Yo F Davis later the president of the union of the I Western Vestern Federation Fc of Miners at Crip Cripple pie pIc Creek had command of or the mob He told of the seizure of the train the theft of or the giant powder the attack I upon the mine and concluding con said saidI I 1 lit one of or the fuses myself Horsley then told of ot oi his flight Into Montana and of various arlous in Continued on n Page 2 it HARRY ORCHARD TELLS HIS STORY from Page 1 the vr sern lt P country o q until 11 Un UI he be ie turned tu i sl 1 up n Gr lm Iq 15 lg 1 2 Went 19 to work Vork ork orkIn in In 1 the ad I w i the h W vestern tern terne p e again firu fIra oi ot o re renewed renewed renewed objection from the defense all allot of ot which was WaB overruled by the court on the tho strength of ot a repeated J by bythe bythe the tat to show the connection of pr the defendant later the tho witness told ef ot the plot to blow up the Vindicator mine He confessed that alter after the strike began he hew went w nt down into the th mine high grad grading gradIng gradIng ing and there discovered dl a quantity of o powder He reported this to Davis and there he said began the plot to do violence In the mine He said the first attempt was 1 a failure because the discovered him and his pal and drew their fire but later a D con contrivance contrivance was successfully suc fixed by which a discharged art d l set off of a bomb and killed klU d Superintendent Mc Me McCormick Cormick and Foreman For inan Beck FIve hun bun hundred hundred bundred dred dollars he said was the th reward for tor the murder Then came the jour journey journey ney ey to Denver Dener where the witness said he hemet met Moyer Haywood and Pettibone P F and entered their employ as an assas assassin assasSIn sin In He swore that Haywood paid him for blowing up the Vindicator mine Act of Treachery Then camo the th making of or two bombs bomb that were tossed toss d into int the coal heap at atthe atthe atthe the Vindicator mine but were were never heard from again and then a digre digression digression sion sIo to confess that before the success successful successful successful ful attempt at t the Vindicator mine he ne had tM railway management of a n plot to blow up its trains traIn carrying nonunion men Next the prisoner re related related related how he Journeyed to southern Colorado as a guard to Moyer and here the narrative which had been at attacked attacked attacked tacked from every side by the defense at every material point halted for the noon recess I Word Vord that Horsley was on the stand through the city and a few mo moments moments moments ments after the tho doors of ot the court were opened in the afternoon aft moon every available seat for tor the th public wag waa wa taken and a squad of ot deputies had to force torce the doors shut and clear away a clamoring crowd that jammed the stairway and landing Horsley spent the noon re recess recess cess celis under guard at Hawleys office and at was ivas as driven back to the court house to resume his story Tried to Assassinate Peabody There was no delay this time and within a few minutes the witness was wason wason wason on the stand telling of or his journey with Moyer and his hs return to Denver where It Jt was suggested he said that he ho kill Governor Peabody He said he picked Steve Adams to aid him and together they stalked the governor between the capitol capital building and his home trying tr for a shot sho at him Ilm Ith cutoff shot shotguns shotguns guns u s t Q and were in inha Int t ha e plo and the witness with money monay from time tiju to ta time The plot failed because Horsley and Adams fol followed followed followed lowed a u carriage ca lage containing three wo women w women men to the Peabody home and excited suspicion Next came a plot to dynamite Pea Peabody Peabody body bod and Horsley said they made a bomb but gave the plan up at t the sug suggestion suggestion of oC Haywood who was in fear feat that they would all be arrested He lIe said mId he be and Adams Mams were told to tp lay layoff layoff off ort for a time but meantime Pettibone suggested that they kill Lyte Gregory who had been a deputy sheriff and had given testimony te against some of or the members of or the federation Detective Shot Down The witness then thel detailed the relent relentless relentless relentless less trailing of ot Gregory and his final murder Gregory turned and backed up against a fence said the witness as if It to draw a gun and I shot him three times It certainly killed him This tale of ot cowardly brutal man hunting seemed to play with greater Intensity upon the nerves of or the men and women who sat listening to Hors Horsley HorSley Horsley ley than any of ot the others and a per perceptible perceptible perceptible shudder went through the room as ns he ho calmly talked of the shoot shootIng Ing IlIg It was the only place where a vic victim victim victim tim had been actually faced the others having been done to death by mechanical mechanical ical and chemical contrivances Then came the frightful tragedy at Independence followed by the flight to Wyoming and after that the trip to San Francisco for the purpose of oC kill kUl killing kUlIng ing leg Bradley Orchard swore won that after 1 his Is visit to Denver when he got KOt Qt the money for killing Mccormick and Beck he was constantly nUy in i communication and in the pay of either Haywood Moyer Pettibone Simpkins OP or Davis that one or all ail of them suggested his various crimes and that at all aU meet meetings meetings ings Inga held after fter each crime his acts had been warmly commended Objections Were Vain The defense kept up its attack all ll through the afternoon protesting against a the admission of every material statement of the witness but Judge Wood accepting for the tre time the assur assurance assurance assurance ance of the state that it will wll make good the connection everywhere ruled against the defense on all aU points save one He declined to let Horl ley tell the contents of ot a telegram sent to him hini at San Francisco by P while he was engaged In the Ute attempt on the he life of or Bradley When taken taleen from the stand Horsley was at once driven Ien to the penitentiary and he will be brought back to town early In the morning |
