nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqm58jv90ntqyldhdwgj5n8lkmkznsmg8qmqcraqds0c3ylpdlcauqgk2wkl (nprofile…2wkl) I don't know why Orchard killed Steunenberg. It's hard to know who, if anyone, paid Orchard for the bombing. Haywood had paid for plenty of dynamite teams in the past. But Pinkerton have used plenty of false flag operations.
But Haywood had no ongoing dispute with Steunenberg - maybe it was an old grudge; and while the Pinkertons were still trying to get Haywood into jail, it seems unusual that they'd intentionally murder a former governor, even one from Idaho. Still, Orchard did the deed.
Based on all of that, and Orchard's autobiography, I attribute Orchard's motive to Haywood. But Orchard's confession at the hand of the Pinkertons certainly casts doubt on it.
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