countrymen, which, in our opinion, is fully as black, damnable and dangerous, il not more so, than the treason which cost Benedict Arnold so dearly, but which, in the case of James McParland and Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, has yielded them both, name, fame, wealth and power.
And as Manager McParland and the Messrs. Pinkerton would undoubtedly feel hurt to hear such things as we have charged, without corroborative data, we shall proceed to complete the comparison between Benedict Arnold and the pack of heartless, conscienceless knaves who, in our day, under the title of Pinkerton's Agency, outrival in lawless acts and treacherous
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deeds against the people, the ill-starred traitor of the Revolution.
Manager McParland, as everyone knows, is the backbone of the prosecution in the Moyer-HaywoodPettibone case ; it would appear that it is solely due to his ingenious work that the State has been enabled to make a case against the union leaders. Manager McParland claims to have secured a confession from one Harry Orchard, in which confession Orchard charges himself with the assassination of ex-Governor Steunenberg, at the instigation and solicitation of Messrs. Moyer, Ha)rwood and Pettibone of the .Western Federation of Miners. In this confession Orchard also accuses Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone of a large number of other criminal acts.
Under the laws of Idaho, a person found guilty of being accessory to a murder is sentenced to death. That Manager James McParland knew of this law and was more dian anxious to avail himself of it, -can be gathered from the following statement which he gave out to the press a few days after Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone had been arrested: