The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-29
Jury, After Being Out Many
Hours, Refused to Accept
The Story of Orchard as
Sufficient for Conviction.
OVERJOYED DEFENDANT
HURRIES TO MOTHER.
The Charges Against Meyer,
Pettibone and Adams Will
Be Pressed, the Attorneys
For the State Declare.

Boise, July 29-Despite the desire OF
the prosecuting attorneys to call Moy
er and Pettibone to trial, it is not like
ly the state will do SO. The taxpay-
ers are angry over the $240,000 cost of
the Haywood trial and acquittal
Lawyers of the former expect dismiss
al of the cases. Haywood is spending
The day beside his feeble old mother
Boise. Idaho. July 29.-The verdict in
The Haywood case is Not Guilty" AT
ter an all-night battle the jury return
ed this verdict at 7:45 O'Clock Sunday
morning, Western time. Many bal
lots were taken during the long hours
Df the deadlock. 1t seemed certain
that the jury would be unable to agree.
Finally those few who maintained that
The story of Harry Orchard, confessed
assassin. should send the executive of
The Western Federation of Miners to
the gallows, surrendered to the better
Judgment of their conferees.
The man who bore up bravely under
the ordeal of one of the most remark
HDlP ITldIS ever WlIEeSSeu. WeDL With
Joy when he heard the words which
set him free. His wife, his friends and
many who had been only interested
spectators at the long trial, greeted
the verdict with long shouts and
cheers-the decision which branded
Harry Orchard perjurer as well as a
murderer.
The jury sent for Judge Wood at 7:3O
q. m. The judge came Immediately
TO the court room and was followed in
q few minutes by attorneys for Hay
wood and Prosecutor Hawley. The
jury was brought in at 7:45 a. m. and
the verdict, Not guilty" read by the
rIerk.
Lawyers for the defendant grasped
him by the hand and he was led from
the court room Immediately. He
started at once for the hospital to see
his aged mother and then went home
to his family.
State Will Continue Fight.
1t had been freely predicted that in
the event of Haywood's acquittal the
state would abandon the prosecution
of his associates. Charles II. Meyer.
president of the federation, and George
A. Pettibone of Denver Statements
from counsel and from Governor Good
Ing, issued today, dispel this view of
the situation. Governor Gooding
said:
The yer .ict is a great surprise to
me, and believe to all citizens of Ida
no who have heard or read the evil
In, ca hny
duty. have no regret as to any
action l have taken and my conscience
IS clear. AS long as God gives me
strength shall continue my efforts for
government by law and for organized
society.
The state will continue vigorous
prosecution of Meyer and Pettibone
and Adams and of Simpkins, when APP
pretended. There will be neither hes
itation nor retreat"
Application will be made to Judge
Wood tomorrow morning to admit
Meyer and Pettibone to bail, and it was
said last night that in the case of Moy-
er, against whom the state is admitted
TO have its weakest case. a favorable
consideration would not be unexpect-
ed
Not the least interesting of the COM
ments made upon the verdict today was
that of Harry Orchard. When told at
the state penitentiary that Haywood
had been acquitted. Orchard said:
We'll. have done my duty l have
told the truth. | could do no more.
j am ready to take any punishment
that may be meted out to me for my
crimes. and the sooner it comes the
better
Jury Out Twenty-One Hours.
IT was after being out for twenty-one
hours that the jury. which at first had
been divided eight to four and then
seemed deadlocked at ten to two. final
ly came to an agreement shortly after
the first faint streaks of the coming
day showed gray above the giant hills.
The weary, snow-bearded old bailiff
who had kept an all-night 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 act |
ors in the trial had been gathered into |
the court room at a few moments be- |
fore 3 O'Clock the white envelope
handed by the foreman to the judge |
was torn open and the verdict read.
1t came as an electric thrill to the |
prisoner, to his counsel. to the attor- |
neys for the state and to the small |
group OF heavy-eyed newspaper men /
and court officials who had been sum-
moned from beds but lately sought or
from offices where sleepless waiting
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