THE MURDER CONSPIRACY TRIAL.
CONSPIRACY TRIAL. FURTHER CONFESSIONS OF ORCHARD. [United Pees9 Association. — Copykight.] NEW YORK, Friday. In the murder conspiracy case, Orchard identified Mr Coates, ex-Lieuten-ant-Governor of Colorado as the- man who suggested jointly to kidnap and hold for a ransom of 60,000 dollars the three-year-old son of Mr Powlson banker, of Wallace, Idaho. They eo-op- • crated with Jack Simpkins, but the j plot failed. Orchard related that he I secured a room at an Idaho hotel where cx-Govcrnor Stucnsnberg was stopping, , and endeavoured to place a. bomb with , clockwork under Stuenenborg's bed He admitted that he was willing to kill everybody in the hotel except himself. The rest of the cross-examination referred to his further plots against btuenenberg, and to his professed religious conversion in gaol. When plied with questions about his conversion Orchard, fee the first time duririg the j trial, broke down and wept, mentioning i Bible stories that moved him to conI fess.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 June 1907, Page 4
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158THE MURDER CONSPIRACY TRIAL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 June 1907, Page 4
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