LABOUR DYNAMITE OUTRAGES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 27 April 1906, Page 3

LABOUR DYNAMITE OUTRAGES.

The New York Tribune, in recording the arrest of officers of the Western Federation of Miners on a charge of marder prints some extraordinary details regarding the mode of aasas' Binatiju followed in the mining reginns. It says:— "The present arrests are due to the confession of one Harry Orchard, a mem hereof the Union, who acknowledges murdering ex-Governor Steuneoberg, of Idaho, recently, and DYNAMITING FOURTEEN non-Union miners at a railway station at Independence, Col., seven years ago. Orchard's method, typical* of this drama of crime, deserves description. A bomb was p'anted under the gate of the Governor's house. A little screw was attached to the gate, and means supplied for making a quick connection with a stung from the GATE TO THE BOMB. One end of this string was tied to the cork of a bottle containing salphurio acid, hidden underground. This bottle wna placed on the top of a bomb, by the opeuing of the gate the string jerked the cork out of the bottle. With the cork drawn, the acid in the bottlo ran out upon ONE HUNDRED GIANT CAPS, which had been saturated with bicarbonate of potash and sugar. The mfxturo of the chemicals started a spark, and caused tbe explosion of the bomb, which consisted of many pounds of dynamite. Precisely the same sort of bomb was planted by Orchard, according to his confession, under the gate of Justice Gabbert, of the Supreme Court of Colorado, who had ventured to vindicate tbe dignity of the law against miners' dynamite. It failed to work, but the police have, since the confession, dug it up as corroborative evidence, Another machine was planted in a vacant lot in Denver usually crosse 1 d,pily by •Justice Goddard, of the Supreme Court. In this case the string was tied to a purse. It was planned that the Justice' should pick up the purse, and thus spring the trap. Another man did it, aud died."