ORCHARD THE PERJURER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 August 1907, Page 4

ORCHARD THE PERJURER.

Haywood was impeached on the accusation of Harry Orchard, whose testimony Ike jury show by their accmittal that they disbelieve. A recent American paper says: The Haywood trial, at Boise. Idaho, 3UUO miles away, is attracting more interest in this city than did the sensational and rather vulgar Thaw trial, yhicli was held in its very heart. In my last letter 1 outlined the really great issue that rests beneath the apparently simple matter of three officers of a .Miners' Union on trial for the murder of the late Governor Frank Stcuueuberg, of Idaho, who was a bitter foe of unionism throughout his entire term of olliee. Much dilliculty was experienced in securing a jury to sit in the ease of liaywuod, the lirst of the three men accused, to go upon trial, lien were diffident about sitting on a jury to determine a ease where unionism was, in a sense, on trial. It took three weeks and many panels to secure the twelve acceptable jurrors, and then Harry Orchard, who bids fair to'go into history as one of the most remarkable criminals of the age, was placed upon the stand as the principal witness for the prosecution. The name by which On-hanl is now known is not ids own. A story from Canada shows that he is really Alfred llorsley, who early in life became the black sheep of his family, and while only a young man deserted his wife ami ran away with the wile of another man, whom' he also left in the lurch to commit bigamy in the Far West. The revelations in his testimony of the series of murders planned, and many of them perpetrated, are astounding, ami appear incredible unless his statements are corroborated. But the fact remains that the eighteen crimes of which he gave the details' were all committed—at least, the victims are dead—and the cold-blooded maimer in which the witness described these crimes went far to convince those who heard him that he spoke the truth. Orchard plainly stated that the purpose of each of these murders was to perpetuate and carry out the poloeies of the miners' '-inner circle,'' the organisation which aimed to control the labor in Western metal mines. He told on the witness stand of the devilish ingenuity displayed by the heads of The Miners' Federation in conjunction with himself to assassinate the late Governor Peabody, of Colorado, another union hater, to Wow up a camp where fourteen non-union miners were all killed, to kill all the, men working on > single level at another, mine, to poison an old-time enemy and to kill Governor Steunenbcrg. He declared that he worked under the explicit instructions oi Haywood, the secretary of the Millers' Federation, as well as under Mover and l'ettibone.