Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — ORCHARD IS BENT EHOED [ARTICLE]

ORCHARD IS BENT EHOED

Death the Penalty, but the Judge Recommends Prison and Hits the W. F. M. Hard. At Caldwell, Ida., Wednesday Judge Wood, who was the presiding judge In the trials of the W. F. M. officers charged with general assassination of opponents of that branch of organized labor by the testimony of Harry Orchard, sentenced the hitter to death, but recommended him to the mercy of the state pardon board, suggesting the penitentiary Instead of the gallows. In his statement before sentencing Orchard the judge took occasion to hit the W. F. M. a hard blow, declaring that he believed every word of Orchard’s testimony Implicating Haywood et al. in various murders of men who antagonized organized labor. He excused the juries for acquitting the accused men on the ground that the law bars conviction on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.