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
Idaho's ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, victim of a bomb blast at his home in 1905
William Dudley Haywood, nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American labor organizer and founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World and a member of the executive committee of the Socia
Albert Horsley
…assassination, confessing as well to the murders of at least sixteen other people. Orchard testified that the murder of Steunenberg was ordered by William Dudley Haywood, Charles Moyer and George Pettibone, all leaders of the Western Federation of Miners. The prosecution alleged that the union leaders had plotted to…
Industrial Workers of the World stickerette "Thief!"
1907 photo of defendants Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood, and George Pettibone
Haywood was the co-author of a popular exposition of the principles of industrial unionism published by Charles H. Kerr & Co. in 1911.