The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-30
Orchards Comment.

Not the least interesting of the
comments made upon the verdict yes
| terday was that of Harry Orchard.
When told at the state penitentiary
that Haywood had been acquitted Or
chard said:
We'll, 1 have done my duty. i
have told the truth l could do 40
more. / am ready to take any pun
fshment that may be melted out to
me for my crimes, and the sooner it
comes the better
The jury having been at first di-
vided eight to four and then seemed
deadlocked at ten to two, finally came
to an agreement shortly after the
first streaks of the coming day show
ing gray above the giant hills. The
weary Snow-beared old bailiff who
had kept an alLnight vigil before the
door of the jury room, was startled
into action by an imperative knock
from within. Events moved rapidly
after this and when the principal &C.
tors in the trial had been gathered
into the court room at few minutes
before S O'Clock, the white envelope
handed by the foreman to the judge
was torn open and the verdict read.
In the Court.
In court the verdict came as an
electric thrill to the prisoner, to his
counsel, to the attorneys Of the state
and to the small group of newspaper
men and court officers who had been
summoned from beds but lately
sought or from offices where sleep
less waiting had marked the night.
Tears welled to the eyes of the man
who during the eighty days of his
trial had sat with stolid Indifference
written upon his every feature. At
last the icy armOr he had thrown
about himself with the first day of
jury selection had been pierced and
whatever of pent-up feeling had been
contained within was loosed. Hay
woods attorneys were fairly lifted
from their seats, and Judge Wood
made no effort to restrain them as
they surrounded Haywood to shake
his hands and shout aloud their CON
CALCULATIONS.
Counsel for State.
James H. Hawley, leading counsel
for the state. and o. n. Van Duyen,
the prosecuting attorney of the
county in which former Gov. Steu-
nenberg was assassinated sat gloomy
and unspeaking in their places. Sen
atOr Borah. who made the. closing
plea for conviction, was not present.
Of the prisoners counsel those in the
court room were Clarence barrow of
Chicago, E. F. Richardson of Denver,
and John F. Nugent of Boise.
No member Of the prisoners fam
lily, nor any of his friends among the
socialist writer's and the so-called
Labor jury who have been attend
ing the trial, was in the courtroom
at the early hour the verdict was re-
turned. The spectators benches
were empty, but in the doorway
stood Gov. Gooding. There was no
by the attorneys for the defense, and
prisoner had been discharged and the
jury dismissed for the term in less
than three minutes time.
Surprise In Boise.
The news of the verdict was re-
ceived reluctantly in Boise. Extra
editions of the papers carried the It'd
ings far and wide and during the day
there was considerable dissatisfac-
ton expressed in clubs, cafes. hotels
and upon street corners. The sur
prise which had been so manifest in
the court room was prevalent every
where. The long time the jury was
out had conveyed the general impress
sion that there could be no other out
come than a disagreement. The ru-
mors which spread so rapidly and fire.
quently Throughout the night and
which were as unreliable as such ru-
mors always are, were generally to
the effect that majority OF the jul
rors had voted for conviction.