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Albert Edward Horsley (March 18, 1866 – April 13, 1954), best known by the pseudonym Harry Orchard, was a miner convicted of the 1905 political assassination of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg.
By 1899, Orchard had found work in a Burke, Idaho silver mine and joined the WFM. Orchard was among the thousand miner who hijacked a Northern Pacific train on April 29, 1899 and then blew up the Bunker Hill concentrator, killing two men.
Albert Edward Horsley (born March 18, 1866 – died April 13, 1954), best-known by the pseudonym Harry Orchard, was a miner convicted of the 1905 political assassination of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. The case was one of the most sensational and widely-reported of the first decade of the 20th Century, involving three prominent ...
8 mar 2019 · Albert Horsley, better known as Harry Orchard, was convicted of assassinating former Idaho Governor Frank Stuenenberg, via a bomb outside the Stuenenberg’s home in 1905. Orchard would go on to spend the next five decades behind bars.
26 mar 2018 · Within days, local police had tracked down a WFM man named Harry Orchard and charged him with murder. Meanwhile, the state of Idaho hired the anti-union Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who sent possibly the world’s most famous detective, James McParland, to the Gem State.
18 kwi 2019 · Harry Orchard is best known as an assassin for the Western Federation of Miners; his. bombs killed more than two dozen people in the early 1900s, including former Idaho. Governor Frank Steunenberg. But Orchard had a criminal background before he began killing people. By his own.
Harry Orchard confessed to the assassination of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg and claimed he did so on the orders of Big Bill Haywood and other leaders of the Western Federation of Miners. Orchard was the main prosecution witness against Haywood.
