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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.
Orchard's career as a paid union terrorist began in 1903 when he blew up the Vindicator mine in Colorado, again killing two men, for a fee of $500. Six months later a bomb planted by Orchard at an Independence, Colorado train depot exploded, killing 13 non-union miners.
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.
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.
ORCHARD, Harry (real name Alfred E. Horsley), American assassin: b. Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, 18 March 1866. He killed ex-Governor Steunenberg of Idaho with a bomb in December 1905, was arrested, brought to trial, sentenced to death and later received commutation to life imprisonment.
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.
