TRADES UNION MURDERS.
United Pross Association—Copyright NEW YOUR, June 13. In tlio Borso City murder trial Orchard testified that lie planned ,to blow up a boarding-house at Clobeville, where 150 unionists wore living, but Haywood discountenanced it. The plan was dropped. Received June 14, 10 p.m. NEW YORK, June 14. Orchard identified Contes, ex-Lieu-tenant-Governor of Colorado, as the man who suggested they should ointly kidnap and hold for a ransom of 00,000 dollars, the three-veur-old son of Paulson, a banker, of W allace, Idaho. They co-operated with Jack Simpkins, but the plot tailed. O - chard related bow he secured a loom at tlie Idaho ' hotel where feteunenberg was stopping and endeavored to place a bomb with clockwork under Stc-unenberg’s bed. He admitted that he was willing to kill o*eiybody in the hotel, ox-cept himself. lhe rest of the cross-examination referred t.l bis further plots against Stounen-bc-rg, and he professed religious convtision in gaol. When plied with questions about Ins . conversation Orchard, for the first time during the trial, broke down and wept, mentioning that the Bible stories had moved him to confess. _____
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2107, 15 June 1907, Page 2
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182TRADES UNION MURDERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2107, 15 June 1907, Page 2
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