PINKERTON SPY AND ASSASSIN SEEKS PAROLE
PINKERTON SPY AND ASSASSIN SEEKS PAROLE Attempted to Incriminate Three Union Men in Crime Which He Committed WASHINGTON—-The reported parole application of Harry Orchard, Pinker-ton spy, who is...
...member of the executive board—were secretly arrested in Denver, placed on a special train and rushed to Idaho, where they were charged with being implicated in the death of Steuenberg...
...In both cases the leading witnesses for the prosecution were Harry Orchards...
...The defense forced Harry Orchard, leading state witness, to confess that he threw the bomb...
...Haywood was tried first...
...William D. Haywood, secretary, and George Pettibone...
...The three unionists were imprisoned 15 months...
...The defense alwi claimed that James McFarland, Pinkerton detective, "coached" Orchard, and that the mine owners employed the Pinkertons to destroy the union...
...He was acquitted July 28...
...ARMY OFJOBLESS LARGER IN BRITAIN LONDON, England—The government's unemployment report as of July 28 gave a total of 2,0)1,467...
...Orchard acknowledged he was a gambler, murderer and all-round criminal...
...This was one of the many outrages connected with the Coeur d'Alene and other strikes in those turbulent times...
...Officers of the Western Federation of Miners—Charles H. Moyer, president...
...The Western Federation was not afliliated with the A. F. of L., but the kidnapping aroused trade unionists, and protest meetings were held throughout the country...
...Steuenberg was killed by a bomb placed at his home...
...PINKERTON SPY AND ASSASSIN SEEKS PAROLE Attempted to Incriminate Three Union Men in Crime Which He Committed WASHINGTON—-The reported parole application of Harry Orchard, Pinker-ton spy, who is serving a life sentence in an Idaho penitentiary tor the assassination of former Governor Steu-enberg of that state December 30, 1905, is of special interest because of the agitation for the reelase of Mooney and Billings, who were convicted on perjured testimony...
...The charges against the three men and methods employed to convict them, are similar to those used against Mooney and Billings...
...With the acquittal of Haywood, the other men were not tried and were finally released...
...The case opened May 9, 1907...
...Orchard's attempt to involve the three defendants was not supported, and the state relied, as in the Mooney-Bil-Ilngs cases, to create a public opinion hostile to the defendants by claiming they were radicals...
...Slightly more than a year aRo the number was 857,338...
...Haywood and Pettibone are dead...
...Moyer is living in the West since his retirement, as president of the' International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, affiliated to A. F. of L., and successor of Western Federation of Miners...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
