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Essay / The Death of the Haywood Trial - 605
For three and a half hours in a courtroom in Boise, Ohio, Harry Orchard sat in the witness chair at the Haywood trial and recounted a log of offenses , massacres and murders... a situation that no individual in a crowded courtroom had ever thought of. In the whole extent of the literature of "Bloody Gulch" one will find nothing approaching an equivalent to the atrocious tale expressed with such stillness, composure and composure by this daring and dispassionate. Because from his very first day of trial, Orchard recounted the details of his wrongdoing without hesitation. Last year, 1906, he and another man planted an explosive in the Vindicator Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, which shattered and exterminated two innocent workers. He later informed the directors of the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad of a Western Federation conspiracy to sink one of their tracks because he had not been paid for his efforts with the federation. He observed the residence of Colorado Governor Peabody and premeditated his shooting....