VERDICT A COMPLETE SURPRISE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8498, 30 July 1907, Page 5

VERDICT A COMPLETE SURPRISE.

Received July 29,10.30 p.m. LONDON, July 28. The Times' New York correspondent. says that doubtless Orchard will be tried and made to pay the penalty of bis crimes. The correspondent adds that Haywood's exoneration implies the exoneration of the entire inner circle of the Western Miners' Federation. The verdict was a complete surprise. (In 1906, Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, William I). Haywood, secretary, and George A. Pettibone, an exmember of the Executive Board, were arrested at Denver as accessories to the dynamiting and murdering of Mr Frank Steunenberg, ex-Gover-nor of Idaho. It was alleged that revenge for former prosecutions prompted the murder. Shortly afterwards a man named Harry Orchard was arrested in connection with the murder. He declared that he received from Moyer and another official of the Federation £760 for the murder of Steunenberg. After much delay the accused persons were put on trial. Harry Orchard confessed that he was promised three thousand dollars to kill Governor Steunenberg. He tied a bomb to Steunenberg's gate, and it exploded with fatal results. He had planned twenty-six murders for the inner circle of the Western Federation of Miners.)