The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-11
EVIDENCE ALL IN
In the Contempt Proceedings
Against Ceur d'Alene Miners.
LISTENING TO THE ARGUMENTS
Counselor Hepburn Scores Labor Unions in
General-James H. Hawley Makes Mag
terly Argument for th4 Defense.

BOISE CRY, Ida, Aug. 1O.-[Special tele-
gram to THE HERALD. THE trial of the
C@ur d. Alene miners in the United States
circuit court here on the charge of contempt
in disregarding the Injunction of that court
is about ended. Yesterday ali the evidence
was in and today has been consumed in lis
tening to the arguments of Judge Hepburn,
leading counsel for the prosecution, and
James H. Hawley, for the defense.
Hepburn delivered speech of about an
hours duration. 1t was remarkable for the
bitterness of his
DENUNcIATIoN OF LABOR UNIONS
and all union men, He charged that these
organizations are unlawful combinations of
the criminal classes, and are menace and
a great danger to the laws Of this country.
He said the miners unions, while pretend
ing to be charitable ard fraternal or
CARNATIONS, were hotbeds of crime
and anarchy. He declared that
the court should severely punish
every member of Ceur d'Alene Miners
union, as all are equally guilty, in that they
did not protest against the wholesale muir
der and the destruction of property. II
these people are not punished severely now,
property nor life will not be safe In this
country in the future. The mine owners
were determined to work their properties
as best suited their interests, without re-
gard to the desires Of the men whom they
employ. Hepburn said a clear case had
been made out against all these defendants,
and hundreds of others not now before the
court He asked that they be punished as
severely as in the judgment of the court
they deserved. Hepburn, much to the sur
prise OF all in tbs court room,
MADE NO REFERENCE TO THE EVIDENCE
in detail. His address was simply bitter
arraignment of labor unions in general and
the Coeur d'Alene Miners union in partic-
ular.
For the defendants, James H. Hawley
made one of the most elegant and logical
pleas ever heard in a court here. He an
alyzed the evidence in every part, and
showed that many of the principal wit
nesses for the prosecution had contradicted
each other on matters of material moment.
That in no instance had there been sufi-
Gent evidence adduced to hold one of the
defendants He pointed out that three Of
the defendants, Davis, MCGEE and Smith,
had been arrested at their homes in north
ern Idaho, brought to Boise, several hun
dred miles, guarded and
TREATED LIKE DEsPERADoEs,
and locked up here in foul cell during
two weeks Of hot weather. These men
had been charged with awful crimes. They
had been pointed out on the street as muir
derers and criminals, and yet when the
prosecution rested its case and every 1.-THE
of evidence was introduced. the names of
these three men had never been mentioned
inside the court room; not witness had
been called who mentioned these men; not
an effort had been made on the part of the
prosecution to connect these men with the
crime charged in the information.
Hawley then reviewed the evidence as
applied to each one OF tue other defendants
and i'll almost every instance showed that
from the evidence for the prosecution it
was not possible for these men to be guilty
of the crime charged.
he SCORED THE MINE OWNERS
unmercifully; declared the evidence
showed they were the ones who conspired
to cause this trouble. He declared that
they and their hired thugs and assassins
who were called guards, were the real
criminals He declared that all the evil
dence went to show that this tragedy had
been precipitated by the willful intention
of the mine owners. They had prepared
for the fight, had planned to bring it on,
and had succeeded. Citizens of Gem and
Frisco had been fired upon by brutal hired
fighters, and innocent men had been killed,
but the bullets had come from the guns OF
Pinkerton and Sullivan thugs. Hawiey
roasted the spy Allison, alais Siringo, un-
mercifully. He said this fellow had been
caught in perjury before this court. He
had hired himself out to perform the most
contemplate service. He had demon
strated that he was
TRAITOR AND LIAR,
and yet the prosecution relied upon this
fellows evidence to convict honest men
who in many years past had demonstrated
their integrity and uprightness in that
very county.
At the conclusion of Hawley's address,
which occupied two hours, the court ad-
iourned till tomorrow, when United States
Attorney Woods will speak for the prose
cution, and Hon. Pat Reddy will plead for
the defense The case will be concluded
tomorrow by noon.
Today Judge Beatty issued an order
calling special term of the district court
at Ceur d'Alene City, Couteai county,
Aug %, for the trial of the cases arising
out of the Occur d'Alene riots.
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