Albert Horsley
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Albert Edward Horsley, 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 sen
"Harry Orchard from a photograph taken in January 1906, shortly after his arrest for the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg."
Miners playing faro in a saloon in 1895
Harry Orchard c. 1907
Idaho's ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, victim of a bomb blast at his home in 1905
Pinkerton (detective agency)
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Pinkerton is an American private investigation agency and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Ruc
Albert Horsley
…had surmised the device was wire-tripped by the assassin and used nitroglycerin. Facing the death penalty by hanging, Orchard made a confession to Pinkerton detective James McParland in the Frank Steunenberg assassination, confessing as well to the murders of at least sixteen other people. Orchard testified…
Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884
Frick's letter describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkertons arrive to confront the strikers in Homestead