The San Francisco call., 1907-06-05
HaWley Describes Great Plot
in Statement to the jury

circle" he said. 1t was because of the
stand he took then in favor of law
and order and decency and good gov
eernment that he was murdered
This was over Darrow's objection,
and so was Hawley's next assertion,
that it was not for personal revenge
that Orchard killed the former gov
ernor.
orchard and Steve Adams were paid
for their crimes by Haywood and the
others of the inner circle" the prosecu-
tor declared. There was a regular
scale of wages paid by the inner circle
for crimes of all sorts. Orchard was
to have been. paid for the murder Of
Steunenberg by direction and under the
Authority of the defendant Haywood"
AS he said that Hawley turned
squarely toward the defendant For Il
moment Haywood met the gaze fully,
then his eyes fell and he turned away.
FIRST BOMB FOUND
Then Hawley brought out the Sec
ond new incident He told how Steve
Adams was first selected to kill Steu-
nenberg and went to Wardner to con-
suit with Jack Simpkins, member of
the inner circle and indicted with Hay
wood. Meyer and Pettibone. Adams, he
said, failed to receive money as he
expected and went back to Denver
Then Orchard was sent out. He had a
bomb prepared, which weighed about
so pounds. He took it up to Wardner
for Caldwell and showed it to Simp-
kins. Simpkins objected that it was
too big and heavy and they threw it
away. THAT bomb has been recovered" ,"
cried Hawley, and will be produced
here in evidence"
1t has been known to a few men in
the confidence of the prosecution for
some time that this evidence was in
the hands of the state, but this was
the first time the fact had been per-
mitted to become public. The bomb was
found by Sheriff Sutherland of Sho-
shone county shortly after Orchard in
his confession gave the tip as to It's
whereabouts.
Hawley proceeded to tell how Or
chard and Simpkins bought the ma
terial for the new bomb with which
Steunenberg was finally murdered
From that point the attorney covered
the killing of the former governor and
the arrest of Orchard told of the cou-
fession of Orchard and of the work OF
Mcfarland, the Pinkerton detective
who has been largely instrumental m
the preparation of the case. Hawley
referred to MCFARLAND as "the terror
of evil doers whom you .(speaking 10
Darrow and Richardson) have had oc-
casion to meet before in defending your
clients"
COUNSEL IN TILT
1t was during this reference to Or
chard that Darrow got In his sneer on
the use of the word gentleman" and
brought forth a. sally of Hawley's in
swift retort that caused a burst of
laughter from all over the courtroom
With a final declaration that the state
oh boI
to the perpetrators of crimes by the
inner circle and how many crimes had
been committed by suck agents, "acS-
ing under the direction and control
by the advice and at the wish of the
leaders of the inner circle" Hawley
concluded his speech and sat down
AS soon as the chief prosecutor had
made his speech to the jury the ex-
animation of witnesses began. The first
was shock headed young man who
had been doing chores at the Steunen-
berg place on the evening Of the
murder and who was the first man to
go to the assistance of the victim of
the bomb. He had left the gate where
Steunenberg met his death but a few
minutes before. Eight other witnesses
followed this man during the day. They
told simply the facts about the ex-
plosion, the finding of the body of
Steunenberg and his death. They were
examined by Senator Borah and most
of them were not cross examined.
sIMPKINs WITH ORCHARD
When the fact of the murder had
been established Borah began to couple
Orchard and Simpkins up with it. He
showed how Orchard had been in Cald-
well at intervals from early September
of 1905, how he had manifested inter
est in the Steunenberg house and how
he had been arrested after the crime
Borah proved this by guests at the ho-
tel where Orchard had stayed and by
it's proprietor with the register BY
the same witnesses he proved the pres
ence with Orchard of q man calling
himself Simmons. whom he will subse-
quently show to have been Jack Simp-
kins. photograph of this man was
identified as the picture of Simmons.
Subsequently witnesses will identify
1t as the picture of Simpkins. Court
adjourned at o'clock owing to the
absence of other witnesses whose tes-
timory will be along this line
Tho introduction Of the hotel regis
ter with the signatures of Orchard and
Simmons-Simpkins greatly interested
Haywood Richardson took the book
from Borah and he and Haywood
looked it over a long time with close
scrutiny. They were studying the sig
nature of Simmons, II to see
whether Haywood could or could not
swear that 1t was not the hand writing
OF Jack Simpkins.
VICTIMS SON ON STAND
One of tho witnesses at the after
noon session was Julian Steunenbere.
son of the murdered man. He is q
square shouldered fair haired, blue
eyed young man, who had only a small
part of the case against his fathers
murderers to take. He was at home
on the night of the killing, but was
not examined as to that event He had
noticed Orchard in the streets In Cald-
well for several days prior to the mur-
der, and on one occasion had talked
with him at the railroad station Or
chard had said that his name was
Hogan, and had asked where the gov
ernor was, saying that he had had 8
sheep deal with him and was expecting
| to have another On the night of the
murder the boy walked home by the
road taken by his father, but was about
two blocks behind and so escaped.
BY his questioning Of the few wit
nesses who were cross examined Rich
ardson gave line on the defense. He