The Elbert County tribune., 1907-07-18
DEFENSE CLOSES
STATE COMMENCES RERuTTAL M
HAYWOOD MURDER TRIAL.
SPRINGS GREAT SENSATION
Arrest Of Prominent Witnesses On
Charge Of Perjury Put New Life
into the Trial.

| nounced that with the ending OF Hay
woods testimony 1t would rest thJ
case. The state at once began its re-
| buttal, and created a sensation when
| one witness on the stand confessed To-
participation in a labor riot resulting
| in the death of two men. the record Of
conviction of murder in the second de-
gree of witness for the defense was
| introduced and the proof of another
having been sent to the insane asylum
upon the information of his neighbors
| vac offered, and its admissibility was
| argued. Finally, shortly after court ad-
| Journed for the day, information was
cworn and a warrant for perjury is.
sued in a magistrate court against DR..
L. MCGEE, a physician, OF Wallace,
Idaho, who was one of the witnesses
| for the defense in the discrediting Of
Orchard. Sheriff ]. w. Bailey of Sho-
shone county, who swore to tho in.
formation against McGee, left for Wal
lace and will arrest MCGEE on arrival
there.
A crowded courtroom. somewhat
bored by legal commonplace, sprang to :,
strained attention at the close of the
second session of the Haywood trial
when William Dewey. a witness in re-
outtal for the state, confessed to active,
armed participation i'm the destruction
OF the Bunker Hill and Sullivan con-
centrator at Wardner on April 90 1899,
when two men were killed and a mob
of 1000 men participated in the riot.
Harry Orchard commenced his series
| CT great crimes at Wardner. He con-
| fessed to lighting one of the fuses that
started the explosion, and he swore
| that William F. Davis, known among
his fellows as Big Bill" Davis, led
| the mob.
Witnesses for the defense have
sworn that Orchard was not at Ward
| ner on April 29th. Davis himself has
sworn to having been elsewhere and
| positively denied any connection with
| the crime for completely in which Paul
| Corcoran was tried and convicted, and
| some ten or a dozen men, including
| Davis himself. were indicted by the
| grand Jury. Davis on the stand ad.
| mitted that he went into hiding imm9-
| ciately after the rioting.
| Dewey swore that not only did big
| Bill accompany the mob to Wardner,
| EuL lIdL lie StTNtu Oul Ilncb hhN
ammunition to the union men gathered
| in the Union hall at Burke before they
went to Wardner, and was one OF the
| leaders of the column that advanced
| On the concentrator before the work oil
| destruction commenced.
Eight years have now elapsed since
| that day of meeting, the consequences
| CT which was the calling out of the
| United States troops at the request OF
| Governor SteuRenberg, the establish
inent of the military bullpen and the
| foundation was laid. according to the
| prosecution in the present trials, for
| the animus on the part of the Western
| federation of miners against Steunen'
berg, resulting in his assassination by
| Orchard in 1905. From that time no
witness except Orchard has been found
| to tell the story or incriminate him.
| self until this afternoon, when Dewey,
now a resident of Goldfield, Colorado.
made his confession.
With eyes downcast and fingers
nervously picking at the Draining
around the rim of a gray sombrero,
Dewey told it all. Repeatedly he was
requested to raise his voice, and with
quick glance at counsel he complied.
| only tc sink back into an almost maud
ible tone. Under the provocation of
| sneering cross-examination by E. F.
| Richardson, he rallied and even be-
came combative, but throughout tho
trial he gave evidence of a certain re-
| morse.
| Under the same cross-examination
| fe told why he had come to Boise to
confess at this time after eight years
| of silence. He had been a miner Ia
| Colorado for seven years, he said, and
had even risen sufficiently in the re-
! gard of other men to be elected town
marshal of Goldfield.
What promise of immunity from
| punishment was given you, before You
| decided to make this confession OF
| crime?"
What reward will you receiver"
What induced you to make this
| statement after all these years?" were
some of Richardson's questions.
None" was the laconic reply to the
| first two questions. but to the last ono
| the witness answered:
II read Orchards confession"
| You saw how well he was treated
here and decided to get little of it?"
sneered Richardson.
| 1T was nothing of the kind" re-
sponded Dewey. quietly. Il thonght I
ought to help along the doing of JUS
| tice"
| Dewey left the stand a few minutes
| before the regular hour of adjourn
ment. He is tall, loose-jointed man,
| with deep set eyes and great Roman
nose, dogged and determined in man
| ner, but with sense of humor that
! came out occasionally while he was on
| the stand. Mr.. Hawley who is conduct
Ing the rebuttal examination, blunt and
| straightforward himself, does not
spare one of his own witnesses any
| more than those of the other side.
| When Dewey dropped his voice at one
| period of the examination by the nrnse.