Charles Moyer
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Charles Moyer was president of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) during the Colorado Labor Wars. He was implicated in the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho, by a confession and testimony coerced from Harry Orchard by James McParland, a Pinkerton agent hired to conduct the investigation. Moyer was the last to be tried, after WFM general secretary Bill Haywood and fellow union activist George Pettibone. Haywood was represented by Clarence Darrow, the most renowned defense lawyer of the day, who obtained an acquittal. Pettibone was then tried and was defended by Judge Hilton of Denver. Pettibone was also acquitted.
Charges against Moyer were dropped.[1]
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- ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 141.
