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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.
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 ...
Cross-examined for 26 hours about his killings, bigamy, heavy drinking, compulsive gambling and womanizing, Orchard stood up to his grilling in a way that amazed even veteran reporters. Harry Orchard was born Albert Horsley in 1867, one of eight sons of an Ontario farmer.
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.
1 maj 2007 · On June 5, 1904, 13 men were killed and 20 hurt when a bomb targeting replacement mine workers was set off by Harry Orchard at the Independence, Colorado, depot (front of depot shown above). The incident was the high (or low) point of the strike against mine operations in Cripple Creek and Victor.
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.
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.
