I want to say to this jury that
before Harry Orchard got religion
he was bad enough,
but it remained to religion
to make him totally depraved.
-Clarence Darrow
Hellraisers Journal, Monday March 23, 1908
Caldwell, Idaho – Judge Wood “Positively Believes Orchard”
From the Boise Idaho Daily Statesman of March 19, 1908:
ORCHARD IS SENTENCED TO BE HANGED
ON FRIDAY, MAY 15“I am more than satisfied that the defendant now at the bar of this court awaiting final sentence has not only acted in good faith in making the disclosures that he did, but that he also testified fully and fairly to the whole truth, withholding nothing that was material, and declaring nothing which had not actually taken place.”-From Judge Wood’s Address.
JUDGE WOOD MAKES RECOMMENDATION
THAT SENTENCE BE COMMUTED
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TALK BY JUDGE WOOD CAUSES SENSATION
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Positively Believes Orchard Told the
Truth Fully, Unreservedly.
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