The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-03
REAL BATTLE
WILL Be ON
THE EVIDENCE.
Every Point Will Be Bitterly
Contested State Must
Make Good.
TRIAL WILL LAST
FOR SIXTY DAYS
Brilliant Array Of Counsel Will
Test Endurance of Court
and Jury.
TRIAL WILL LAST
FOR SIXTY DAYS

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Boise, Idaho, June 3.-At 1884,
western time, today the Haywood jury
was completed and is composed as
follows: Thomas B. Geiss, real es-
tate; Finley Mclean, rancher; Samuel
D. Gilman, farmer; Daniel Clark,
farmer; George Powell, rancher; o. v.
Sebern, farmer; H. F. Messecar,
farmer; Leo. F. Scrivener, farmer; ].
A. Robertson, farmer; Levi Smith,
carpenter; A. p. Burns, : retired
rancher, and Samuel F. Russell. farm
er.
When court opened, Haywood came
into court and expressed himself as
completely recovered from his illness.
His attorneys were delayed In coming
into court presumably on account of
an important conference. Shortly be-
fore 1880, the defense exhausted its
premptory challenges and then fol-
lowed the completion Of the jury. w
With a jury secured the case for
the state will be opened by James H.
Hawley, leading counsel. This, the
first gun in the real engagement, will
be a lengthy recital of the position
taken by the state of Idaho in the
effort to prove that Haywood. to-
gether with Meyer, Pettibone, Simp-
kinS and Orchard, were responsible
for the death Of Frank steunenber8 on
the night of Dec. 80, 1905. This open
ing address to the jury will be the
first official outlining of the case of
the prosecution. Ever since the ar
rest of Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone, speculation has been rife and
innumerable statements. more or less
well founded in fact, have been pub
lished. 1t is true. however, that ex-
cept in the most general way no au-
thoritative- statement has been given
out. 1t is now nearly sixteen months
since Harry Orchard. who by his own
confession, 1t Is alleged, is the assas-
made sworn statement duplicating
the Western Federation of Miners in
the plot to murder Steunenberg and
in series of crimes extending over
many years.
Intimation of what Orchard has
stated in his confession has come from
one source and another in the last
year, but it may be stated positively
that very little is known of the con-
teuLS vi Juo COuIeSSlOn
1t is believed the state has in re-
serve much to corroborate Orchards
testimony. Orchard will be witness,
but attorneys for the state do not pro-
pose to rely entirely upon his evil
dence.
Every point bearing on Haywood's
connection with the actual murder of
Steunenberg must, the lawyers openly
state, be corroborated before they can
hope to prove their case. In the work
of securing this corroboration the
Pinkerton detective agency has fig
ured largely.
The best legal talent has been Sc
cured in their behalf and six lawyers
are daily in court actively conducting
the case while two or three others are
in reserve. Counsel for the defense
claim that Orchards implication of
their clients was made out of whole
cloth and that the Western Federation
of Miners had nothing to do with the
Steunenberg assassination.
e. F. Richardson, prominent at
torney of Denver. will open for the
defense, but it Is understood that 1t
has been agreed that the case for the
defense will not be shown until after
the case for the prosecution is all in.e
1t may therefore be several weeks
before Mr.. Richardson delivers his
opening address.
1t is conceded that the introduction
Of evidence for the state, and especial