.. LET THE 'NATION OWN THE TRUSTS" WILSHIRE'S MAGAZINE r, GAYLORD WILSHIRE, Editor .. Is the leading Socialist Magazine in the world. Has a circulation in excess of 300,000. I . Finely illustrated. Published monthly. If you wish to keep up to date 011 this most impor'tant subject, subscribe to­ day-or better still, get a half dozen or so of your neighbors to subscribe with you. Subscription Price: 25 Cents for a Whole Year SAMPLE FREE WILSHIRE'S MAGAZINE 200 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK p ._-, .1.. r r r (' ~ ~ " ,~ r:. p r'" " r e 5c. a Copy Postpaid 1')u Copies $2.50 I THE"' I ~AYWOOD-MOYER • OUT·~AGE I ! he Story of Their Illegal Arrest and Deportation from Colorado to Idaho By. JOSEPH WANHOPE Special Correspondent for Wilshire's Magazine, New York \ I CHAS. MOYER . WM. D. HAYWOOD / President Western Federation of Miners Secretary Western Federation of Miners '\ i \ \ Published by the WILSHIRE BOOK COMPANY 200 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK i l'./ , JOSEPlI WAtlHOP~ 'i'i Special Correspondent for Wilshire=s Mamazine I ,I ( 1 The Story of the Haywood-Moyer Outrage By JOS. WANHOPE Special Correspondent Wilshire's Magazine N the night of December 30th, of The Fecleratiol1 attorney, Mr. Richard­ 1905, ex-Governor Frank Ste.unen­ son, who attempted to secure the release O berg of Idaho was assasslllated of the prisoners on a writ of habeas at the front yard gate of his home in corpus, based on the unlawfulness of the Caldwell, Idaho. A bomb, placed in such arrest, describes the history of the trans­ a position that when the gate was opened action as foJlows: an explosion was inevitahle, was the in­ "It reads like one of the raids of Dick strument used. Steunenberg died in a Turpin or of Robin Hood. It was gen­ few hours without speaking. There is tlemanly in the extreme, but it was das­ little doubt but,that the crime was per­ tardly in the execution." petrated by some miner who had suffered That the writ of habeas corpus was de­ from his cruelty in the "bnll pen" in 1899. nied was to be expected. It was not At least this theory is far more probable probable that the conspirators would than one now in circulation that his death permit any such foolishness to rob them was due to the vengeance of cattle breed­ even temporarily of tneir prey. Posses­ ers who were angered against him on ac­ sion was more than nine points of the count of his connection with the sheep law in this case, and it prove.9 to be all industry. While there is and has been of it. The Federation attorneys have for years a feud between the cattle and ~,j)pealed to the U nitec1 States Supreme sheep raisers, and many murders have re­ Court. sulted therefrom. all of these so· far have been through the medium of firearms, Then came the opportunity. of the bombs never being used in this particular. press to play its part. The guilt of the warfare. prisoners was at once assumed. A tor­ rent ;of lies, rUl11ors, reports and alleged This was the' chance the mine owners confessions .poured forth through the were looking for." If this crime could colul11ns of the press almost hourly, to be charged to the officials of the Western be contradicted in the succeeding issues, Federation of Miners, it might be pos­ and new stories fabricated. sible to destroy them under that pretext. So, on the night of February 17th, a One Harry Orchard had confessed the sudden coup was decidec} on, and put entire plot and clearly implicated the into operation. prisoners. It was upon this alleged con­ fession that the complaisant governor of Charles Moyer, President of the. Fed­ Colorado was induced to secretly issue eration, was arrested in Denver, while on warrants for the extradition of the ac­ the point of leaving for an organizing cused men. Next day this was denied tour in South Dakota. William Hay­ by a detective named McParland, who wood, Secr~tary-Treasurer, wa's placed evide'ntly desired· to monopolize the under- arrest near the he: iquarters of the credit of the arrest to himself and the union, and George Pettibone, formerly Pinkerton agency, with which he was an official of the organization, was also connected. There was no Orchard con­ arrested in his home. fession. He, McParland, all alone, had The arrest was secretly and illegally. worked out the case. He had evidence carried out. The wives and families of not only of the complicity of the prison­ the IT en were given 110 intimation of ers in the Steunenberg murder, but had what had happened. Tpeprisoners were also connected them with thirty odd mur­ held a few hours in the county jail, and ders -in other places not named. But '"),"1' -ushed by specialttraib into Idaho., the repqrt of the Orchard confession, ,I . though denied daily, and agaIn asse~ted, SOl11e years before he had dug up a suit still persisted. And then McParland.de­ of clothes on the banks of a Kansas termined to assimilate it. Yes, there was river, in order to acquit a notorious crim­ an Orchard confession, and he was the \nal of a charge of murder, the finding of one who secured it. He had worked' on the clothes being evidence that' the de­ the sentimental side of Orchard; remind­ ceased had committed suicide. Two wit­ ed him of his childhood days and 'the nesses employed by him, who swore to godly training he had received from a the digging, went to the penitentiary for pious mother, and extracted a full cpn­ perjury, though the murderer was ac­ fession. The fact that Orchard's mother quitted. This incident occurred in Par­ had died when he was two years ,old sons, Kansas, between 1881 and 1885, and might seem to discredit this narratIVe is a matter of court record. somewhat, but little discrepancies of this sort are of no particular importance. Several days later Orchard's confession was substantiated by that of one Adams -in the newspapers at any rate, if no­ where else. 'More, no dOUbt, will be forthcoming in the future. In the mean­ time the astute McPar1and has assured the public that "Moyer and Haywood will never leave Idaho alive," that noth':' ing more is needed in the way of evi­ dence to complete thf'~l Jestruction. The accused meJ~ on their arrival in Iclaho,were placed in the penitentiary at Boise. Though waiting trial, they were assigned to the quarters of prisoners al­ read" convicted. Moyer and Haywood occupied separate' cells, one between them being occupied . v a convict-or 1110re likely a detective assuming that character. The rules applied to them were those for cOllvicts. Their corre­ snondcnce was limited to one letter every two weeks. Mrs. Haywood. a help­ less invalid, assured me that she had re­ ceived but.olle letter from he'r husband since his arrest. Detcctive James McPartlan(1 is first presented to the readers .of WILSIIIRE'S MAGAZINE. HENRY ORCHARD, I regret to say that it wasn't possible to secure a photograph, but it seems The Man Who Alleges He was Paid by that McP. has a rooted objection to Moyer and Haywood to Assassinate posing-at least for that purpose. I Stel1nenberg. have had a photographer laying for him for a week-olle can have the most re­ pulsive objects portrayed for money­ There possibly is something purport­ but this old fox is both wary and irri­ " ing to be an Orchard confession. At table. and as my man has so far failed to j ..; least there is such a person. He "'as at "get" him, a pen picture must perforce one time a member of the Federation,. suffice. and was deported from Cripple Creek. came to Denver, anel for a time hung McParland.-A Sketch around the headquarters of the Federa­ tion. Nothing much was known of" him. T was quite falniliar with that heavy, Amongst a crowd of refugees. he was slow-moving figure, with its legs slightly no more conspicuous than any other. bowed, the right hand grasping a bone­ Yet this unknown' individual had pene­ handled "blackthorn" stick with which trated the "inner circle" of the Feder­ it tanped the pa,"ement'--:for McParland ation, and, under their direction and in-' is nearing three-score and. ten. and the stigatioIl, had placed anel exploded the infirmities of age require the support of Lomb that destroyed Steunenberg. a staff-hat pulled well down over the eyes, and a thin' plaster of silver hair Then Detective :M cParland began to showing under the brim. I had seen dig. He discovered bombs placecl here him, too. uncovered, at closer range, and and there and everywhere bv the "inner noted the large. round. knobby head. the circle," and began to dig them up. heavy jowl overhung by a droopirig gray 4 <, mustache-rather a venerable looking in general, at times essays the task of personage at first glance--;-the substan­ writing theapotheosi$ of McParland by tial citizen type-there bemg always a calling attention to the purity of his certain impression of respectability at­ motives, his unblemished record and re­ tached to gray hairs, especially when in markable love of justice, but with little conjunction with a portly frame and apparent success. Local "respectability," well tailored garments. The gold­ which pretends to regard him as a savior, rimmed spectacles serve to heighten the is curiously shy in accepting him in any impression, but a still close~ inspection other relation.