The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-05
FINAL PLEA MADE
FOR STEVE ADAMS
Attorney Richardson Followed
by Clarence barrow for the
Accused Man.
ROAST FOR DETECTIVES
PROSECUTION WILL PROBABLY
CLOSE TODAY.

Wallace, Ida. March 4.--'SteVe Adams
IS only paw in the great game that IS
being played. When Governor Gooding.
the leader OF this great state. pressed his
lips 10 those Of Adams innocent babe
did he believe that he was kissing the
child Of criminsi-the child of one of
The grossest criminals IN all the world ?
The prosecutors In this case do not be-
lieve Adams Is guilty. They never did
believe IT, That they ever should have
believed il IS incredible
So declared Judge +. +, Richardson
this morning in his plea 10 the jury to
acquit Steve Adams of the crime OF kill
ing Fred Tyler. lie based his plea upon
the theory that the state is only max
ing use Of Adams for the purpose of
cOnvictine others-that this trial is but
the side play IN the great battle between
the Mine Owners association and the
Western Federation of Miners
Detectives Denounced.
feature Of Judge Richardson's ad-
dress this morning was his severe denun-
citation of detectives in general and the
Plnkertons agency as represented BY Nc
Partland in particular.
THE Pinkerton detective agency" he
declared. lis not an organization that Is
est working for private ends. or perhaps
obeying the behest of some one holding
II private position. who employs it.
A detective generally speaking, IS a
fnclination-a man who likes the dark
and devious walks Of life-a man who Is
TOO lazy TO work at any trade that re-
uuires an intellect and a great amount
of labor-a man who is viewed with sus-
picion-a man who cannot be believed.
He comes to the trial to testify in favor
of the man who employs him. His sue
cess depends upon the success of those
who employ him, in securing their objects
and their object in this case is the con-
Viction of Adams.
Richardson denounced the methods
used by Mcfarland in obtaining the con-
fession by working on Adams feelings
and affection for his wife and young
babe. Supporting his asserting that the
prosecution did not believe Adams gully,
he said:
airy to take a self-convicted victim from
his cell the moment his confession has
been made. place him in a nice room and
send for his wife and family.
Clarence DarrOw next spoke for the de-
Tense. He said.
Clarence Darrow's Plea.
..The state of Idaho never prosecuted a
man as they are prosecuting this poor
unimpOrtant labOrer. They have gone to
the capital and employed the. grtStest
lawyers there is in Idaho. and months
of the time of the greatest detectives of
the west have been given to bring him
to the gallows. They are simply gam
bling with the life OF Steve Adams; not
that his life will be taken: they do not
value that more than they value that of
a fly.
MIR barrow argued that the real pur-
nose of the prosecution was to prepare
the way for the real struggle when Moy-
err Haywood and Pettibone would be put
on trial in an effort to destroy them and
the Western Federation OF Miners. He
said that il was unfair on the part of the
state to make Adams the scapegOat for a
crime for which probably every settler
in the district was to blame. No notice
had been taken Of the death of either
TYLER or Boule until a great man had
been killed in southern Idaho. when the
remains of Tyler had been dug up with
the object of duplicating the Western
Federation of Miners
Mr. barrow took up the confession
point by point and endeavored TO trace
the hand of Detective Mcfarland all
through the answers and corrections. and
tried TO show how it was given under
fear Of death on one hand and hope OF a
quiet farm life on the other. He said the
Western Federation of Miners had been
referred to all through the confession
with the sole object of in plicating them.
and dwelt sarcastically on Adams enter
taiument IF iGoOding. Hawley. BOran,
Whitney. Mcfarland and Thiele. while
keeping house in the Boise penitentiary.
He referred at length to McPariand's and
Thiele's connections with labor unions,
how they had been admitted and had be-
trayed those bodies. saying that II was
impossible that man who could lie under
these circumstances could tell the whole
truth from the witness stand