THE AMERICAN SENSATION.
Received June 11, 8.15 a.m. LONDON, June 10.
The Times' New York correspondent quotes statements made by leaders of organised labour, affirming that if Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone, the officials of the Western Miners' Federation who are charged with being accessories to the murder of Governor Steunonberg, are convicted, it will be through an unfair trial, and adding: "The whole affair is a put-up job, and a low-down murderous attack by unscrupulous capitalists against the workers." The cablegram declares that the situation is one of great gravity, and is full of menace. No one can foresee the result if the prisoners are sentenced to death. ACCUSER'S EVIDENCE. MORE CRIMES. Received June 11, 8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, June 10. The evidence of Orchard, who has confessed to eighteeri murders, and who alleges that the Miners' Federation officials, Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, paid him for murder, was unshaken under two days' cross-ex-imaiation. to other crimes, including arson and shooting Detective Gregory at the instigation of the Federation leaders.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8462, 12 June 1907, Page 5
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169THE AMERICAN SENSATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8462, 12 June 1907, Page 5
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