THE IDAHO MURDER.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. Received July 3, 8.13 a.m. NEW YORK, July 2. The State Board of Pardons has commuted the sentence of death passed on Harry Orchard, found guilty on 18th March of the m'urder of Mr Steunenberg, ex-Governor of Idaho, in 1899. Orchard, who is a self-confessed assassin, will be imprisoned for life. He was to have been hanged tomorrow morning.
At the, trial of Orchard, the court expressed the conviction that accused narrative of the conspiracy among the officers of the Western Federation of Miners to assassinate Mr Steunenberg was the exact truth, and recommended the Board of Pardons to commute the sentence to one of imprisonment for life. With the tears streaming down his face, Orchard thanked the judge for his recommendation. A cablegram from New York on May 9th stated that Orchard, against his own protest, had been reDrieved till July. Orchard stated that he would pi'efer to be hanged, as even his fellow prisoners shunned him.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9133, 4 July 1908, Page 5
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164THE IDAHO MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9133, 4 July 1908, Page 5
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