Evidence from the Haywood Trial on display at the Boise Historical Museum.

Comments (6)

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   Time_Traveler (03 May 2009 )

   A picture of the bomb, as reconstructed by Harry Orchard for the Haywood trial, appears in DEBATERS AND DYNAMITERS: The Story of the Haywood Trial by David Grover.
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   Time_Traveler (03 May 2009 )

   The label is incorrect is stating that the damaged revolver parts were the "trigger." They may have been a non-active part of the bomb but the stopper pulled from a vial of sulfuric acid, spilling it on the blasting caps was the triggering device.
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   Time_Traveler (03 May 2009 )

   Justice Byron Johnson noticed the labeling of the trial evidence indicating gun parts as the trigger. A vial of sulfuric acid with a string attached to a stopper at one end and the gov's gate at the other was the trigger, not these gun parts.
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   Time_Traveler (03 May 2009 )

   Orchard described & reconstructed a mock bomb for the trial. Originally intended as a time bomb, he used clocks & gun parts. Later he decided to use a vial of acid with a stopper attached by string to the Gov's gate. Open the gate and.......
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   Time_Traveler (04 May 2009 )

   For more information on all the events related to the assassination of Governor Steunenberg, the Haywood trial and Harry Orchard, go to: http://www.steunenberg.blogspot.com/
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   Time_Traveler (04 May 2009 )

   The Idaho Historical Museum has informed me that this display card has now been updated. See: http://www.steunenberg.blogspot.com/