AN AMERICAN SENSATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 June 1907, Page 5

AN AMERICAN SENSATION.

THE IDAHO MURDER TRIAL. ALLEGED METHODS OF UNION OFFICIALS. A HORRIBLE CONFESSION. Received 7th, 10.42 p.m. New York, June 7. In connection with the Steuncnburg murder trial in Boise City, Idaho, cabled on May 10. Orchard testified how, at Haywood's instance, he and Steve Adams Wrecked the Providence railway station in order to prevent a split of the .Miners' Convention by providing counter excitement. Twelve or fourteen were killed in that explosion. Later he asked Haywood for 300 dollars, and Haywood sent 300 through Pettibone, while Adams reeeived 200. Orchard narrated how the j murder of a detective was planned by Pettibone. who paid him 10(1 sterling Moyer and Haywood paying in connection with the fatal mine wrecking, and I also with Pettibone, paying to kill Sleu- 'I nenburg. They also paid for fruitless i endeavors to kill the public prosecutor i for thwarting the Western Miners' Federation plans v

[On March Ist of last year we were told that Orchard, who was a short time previously arrested in connection with the murder of Steimeiibitrg, formerly Governor of Idaho, had confessed to twenty-six murders. He declared he received from Moyer, President of the Miners' Federation and another oilicial. £760 to murder Steuenburg. Moyer and William Haywood secretary to the j Miners' Federation, are now standing their trial.]