Albert Horsley

Okay.

So, the first person I will talk about is a man named Harry Orchard.

Harry Orchard was actually born Albert Edward Horsley, and he was born in 1866 in Ontario, Canada.

During his life, he uses multiple aliases, including Harry Orchard, Thomas Hogan, Thomas Logan, which is literally like you just kind of swap some...

He probably forgot one day and called it the wrong

thing.

Bye, bitch.

Yeah, like, meep, meep.

The sodden lords of Misrule trembled in their stolen finery, and then the word went forth that they must get the vagabond who had stirred up the people against them.

The prototypes of Peabody, McPartland, Harry Orchard, et al., were all ready for their base and treacherous performance in their thirty pieces of blood-stained silver.

The priest of the mammon worshippers gave it out that the Nazarene was spreading a false religion, and that his pernicious teachings would corrupt the people, destroy the church, uproot the old faith, disrupt the family, break up the home, and overthrow society.

The lineal descendants of Caiaphas and Judas, and the Pharisees and money-changers of old, are still parroting the same miserable falsehood to serve the same miserable ends the only difference being that the brood of pious perverts now practice their degeneracy in the name of the christ they betrayed and sold into crucifixion twenty centuries ago jesus after the most farcical trial and the most shocking travesty upon justice was spiked to the cross at the gates of Jerusalem, and his followers subjected to persecution, torture, exile, and death.

Bounties are a great way to just kind of systematically rank people, and this episode may be the largest bounty ever paid in Idaho.

It's not as big as Harry Orchard's.

No one will ever top Harry Orchard here in Idaho.

But his bounty wasn't paid.

It was used in the prosecution fund and the trial to follow.

While the Bill Matthews gang made headlines throughout the Northwest, the United States was far more focused on a drama unfolding right here in Boise.

On December 30th, 1905, former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg opened his gate in Caldwell, Idaho, only for an explosion to tear through the night air.

Just two days later, authorities arrested Albert Edward Horsley, better known as Harry Orchard, for the crime.