Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-03-06
PROSECUTION
Of ADAMS
SINCERE
STATE HONESTLY BELIEVES
HE IS GUILTYl0F MURDER
District Attorney in Idaho Trial
Replies to Charge That Case
Is InStigated for Purpose OF
Attacking Miners Federation
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Wallace. Ida. March 5.-"Counsel
for the state are better friends to Steve
Adams than are attorneys for the
defense. The latter are lin the case
simply for the purpose Of. getting evi-
dence i'm favor of Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone and they do not give a jack
straw for Steve Adams or what hap
pens to him.
With these words States Attorney j.
II. Hawley today started a sharp at
tack on the defense in the case of the
state against Steve Adams for the
murder of Fred Tyler.
"The state does no, wish to see am
innocent man hanged continued Mr.
Hawley. but the defense does not
care We believe Adams is guilty of
the murder We are trying this case
upon its merits and not for the pur-
pose of finally convicting the officers
of the Western Federation of Miners
of another crime.
The defense talks nonsense" said
Mr.. Hawley, when it states that the
prosecution is not being carried on in
good faith. Governor Goodings visit
to Steve Adams at the penitentniary
was made in good faith apd not for
the purpose of injuring the prison
er's chances. There was nothing about
the confession that was Illegal and no
pressure was brought to bear upon
him to make him give that confess
sion"
In his address to the Jury Clarence
s. DarrOW, speaking for the defense
said:
"The state of Idaho never prose-
cuted man as they are prosecuting
this poor unimpOTtant laborer. They
have gone to the capital and employed
the greatest lawyer there is in Idaho,
and months of the time Of the great
est detectives of the west have been
given to bring him TO the gallOWs.
They are simply gambling with the
life of Steve Adams, not that his life
will be taken; they do not value that
more than they value that of a fly"
Mr.. Darrow argued that the real pur-
pose of the prosecution was to pre-
pare the way for the real struggle
when Meyer Haywood and PettibOne
would be put on trias in an effort TO
destroy them and ~ Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. He said that ii was
unfair on the part of the state to
make Adams the scaDegoat for a
crime for which probably every set
tier in the district was to blame. No
notice had been taken OF the uedth
of either Tyler or Boule until a great
man had been killed in southern
Idaho when the remains of Tyler had
been dug up with the object of im-
pliCating the Western Federation OF
Miners. Mr. Darrow took up the con-
fession point by point, and endeavored
to trace the hand of Detective Nc
Partland all through the answers and
corrections, and tried to show how 1t
was given under fear Of death on one
hand and hope of q quiet farm life
on the other He said the Western
Federation of Miners had been re-
ferred to all through the confession
with the sole object of duplicating
them, and dwelt sarcastically on
Adams entertainment of Gooding
Hawley, Borah, Whitney, Mcfarland
and Thiele, while keeping house in the
Boise pcnitentiary. He referred at
length to McPartlands and Thiele's
connections with labor unions. how
they had been admitted and had be-
trayed those bodies, saying that it was
impossible that men who could lie
under these circumstances could tell
the whole truth from the witness
stand.