Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-25
DARRoW ADVISES THE JURY TO
CLEAR OR HANG
COMPROMISE NOT ACCEPTABLE
TO PEOPLE
Attorney startIes Hearers by Violent
Denunciation of Orchard and Other
Witnesses Whose Testimony
Incriminates Defendant
By Associated Press.

row of Chicago for two hours and a half
of the morning session of the Haywood
| trial today proclaimed the innocence of
his client and the impossibility of his
conviction upon the uncorroborated evil
dence of Harry Orchard.
| j. II. Hawley, leading counsel for the
state, and Orchard, were the figures
| around whom most of the storm of the
| morning centered. Throughout the ten
! weeks of testimony taking Hawley and
| Darrow have clashed almost daily. and
there have been frequent exchanges of
| angry words until during Hawleys argu-
ment the lie was passed.
This morning Darrow vented his ac-
| cumulated wrath. There was no ATTEMPT
| at refinement of attack; 1t was straight
vituperation and angry denunciation.
| For two hours and a half Darrow rang
the changes ON Orchards past his pres
| ent and his future, and on Orchard he
! heaped every word of abuse and con-
tempt that the least possible show of re-
| spect for the court would permit
| Inc court room, crowded to its limit
was hot and the atmosphere heavy, but
tne Chlcago lawyer held his audience to
| close attention throughout the morning
| He pleaded with voice and gesture NOT
| quiescent for moment he paced to and
| 1ro before the box addressing each of the
Jurymen in turn, and always pleading
that an Idaho jury should never find a
Ne AGAINST haywood on the testi-
| mony OF orchard, who, he said, was cor
roborated only by dog, wall-eyed
| horse and James H. Hawley.
MI barrow in closing the argument of
tne morning said that If the Jury Of
Idaho men sheuld "hang Bill Haywood.
one million willing hands will seize the
banner of liberty by the open grave and
pear 1t on to victory"
Darrow Pleads with Jury
THE defendant in this case and the
men in the Jail below" declared Mr..
! Darrow, "have been brought to trial in
| the home of man who was killed in the
most cowardly, the most brutal way that
any man was ever sent to death. Many
of you men on this jury voted for Gov
ernor Steunenberg. One of you had busi-
ness relations with him, while in the
mouse of another of you he made his
home for two years. You are almost t,e
Iamlly circle of the murdered man, and
none or you has ever had any community
OF interest with these defendants.
Under these circumstances 1 can but
ASK you to lay aside as much of the pas
sion and prejudice as you can and look
at us as If we were one of you.
fGiYe us the fair and s,.;isi
you would give If you had not known the
deceased ~ lag
You men for more than a wear mas
nave had your minds poisoned bv lies 4,
the local newspapers. but now that W., ~
nave sat here for more than two
! months and have heard the testin,onv
and lies NpoA PolSon
Lay aside as much as you can of this
s poisoilous stur; try to get your mind free
and be guided only by the evidence
Inc prosecution in this case knows IL
cannot convict on the exact evidence. but
1t relies upon the strained. forced cjrcu,,-
stances to get verdict from you This
detendant was taken by force from his
home, brought 1900 miles and SET doun
before hostile jury to be tried for his
| life. ~ .iiS
| Imagine yourselves, men, taken from
your farms and set down before a iurv
In Chicago to be tried for your lives andN
then you can in some way feel as this
man does in this case. 1 believe that
under these circumstances you will hest
tate to act on the rotten testimony given
in this case to take away the life of a
| fellow citizen
But some of you will say, perhaps
| that while there is not enough here 70
warrant sending man to death there is
perhaps enough of evidence as to crimes
having been committed in the western
country to vote to put Bill Haywood in
jail-to compromise on verdict for man
slaughter or murder in the second degree
| You have that right, gentlemen of the
jury, but I want to say that whatever
else you are I do not believe you are
towards And l want to saw that what
ever else Bill Haywood may be he is not
coward. would not thank this jury
| If it returned verdict of assault and
battery and assessed a fine of S. against
this defendant.
Demands Liberty or Death
''This murder was cold-blooded, delib-
crate and cowardly in the extreme II
this man sitting in his office in Denver
1900 miles away, employed an assassin to
do this cowardly act. then you ought to
hang him by the neck until he is dead
For Gods sake, men, do not compro-
mise. If you believe the story that has
been told against this man beyond all
| reasonable doubt, then take him and
hang him.
"He has fought many fight against
the prosecutors who are bounding him
into this court. He has fought them on
the open battlefield and he is not cow
ard. If he has to die he will die as he
lived, with his face to the foe. Bill
Haywood is either innocent or guilty. II
he be guilty have nothing to say. But,
men, this case is a case of Orchard from
beginning to end. There is nothing at
all left in the evidence without him.
Darrow dismissed Senator Borah, asso-
ciate counsel for the state, with few
words.
'T do not mean to insinuate," he de-
clared. "that Senator Borah is any more
honest than Hawley, but do believe he
is slicker,"
Mr.. Darrow said that he did not be-
lieve Senator Borah was as overcome
with the truthfulness Of Orchards story
as was Hawley.
I'm fact" he went on, 'I am inclined to
think that If Senator Borah believed
Harry Orchard was going to heaven, he'd
want to go the other way
But he must be saved till Bill Hay
wood and Meyer and Pettibone have been
sent to the gallows and their bodies
eaten up by quicklime.
If One Is Criminal All Are
Then there are 10000 members Of the
Western Federation of Miners-40,000
criminals yet to be dealt with to save
Orchard for. So long as there is a neck
to hang why should we kin Orchard?
Jack Simpkins is yet to be caught, yet to
be hanged and Orchard must not be done
away with ''till Jack is dealt with"
Darrow next turned his attention to
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