The revenge killing of an ex-Idaho governor.
December 30, 1905. Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is fatally injured by a bomb that goes off when he opens the gate to his front walk at Caldwell, ID.
Albert Horsley, alias Harry Orchard, later admits to the assassination. He claims that he was hired by officials of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) as revenge for Steunenberg’s actions against striking miners in the 1890s. Three WFM leaders are arrested but not convicted. Orchard spends the rest of his life in prison.
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