The Death Of The Haywood Trial

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For three hours and a half in a courtroom at Boise, Ohio, Harry Orchard assembled in the witness chair at the Haywood trial and recounted a record of offenses, slaughter, and murder… the like of which no individual in the overcrowded courtroom had ever thought of. Not in the entire scope of "Bloody Gulch" literature will there be exposed anything that approaches an equivalent to the atrocious narrative so motionlessly, coolly, and composedly voiced by this audacious, disimpassioned man-slaughterer.
For on his very first day of the trial, Orchard narrated the specifics of his wrongdoings without hesitation.
Just last year, 1906, he with another fellow had implanted an explosive in the Vindicator Mine at Cripple Creek, Colorado, that shattered and exterminated two innocent workers. Later he notified the administrators of the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad of a conspiracy of the Western Federation to below up one of their tracks, as he had not been paid for his efforts at the federation. He observed the residence of Gov. Peabody of Colorado and premeditated his killing by gunfi...

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