The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-05
SuCh Is the Declaration of the
Warden at the Idaho Peni-
tertiary Where Haywood
Case Witness Is Confined.
DELAY is EXPERIENCED
IN HEARING TESTIMONY.
IA Broad Statement Was Made
BY Attorney HaWIey Charg-
ing Many Crimes to the
Federation of Miners.

Boise, Idaho, June 5.-Guarded by {
half dozen men Tarry Orchard spent
last night in the office of James r
!Iawley, one of the attorneys for the
state. Orchard would have begun his
tale of crime this morning in the Hay
wood case but for technical objections
that have ODE cleared away. When
Orchard appeared in court he passed
near Haywood, but there was no recog
milton.
The warden at the penitentiary said
this morning. Orchard is ready to pay
the last penalty for his crime and ex-
poets nothing else at the hands of the
state. Singular though this may be,
] know it to be true
The court room was filled when
court convened today Introduction
of evidence began.
Opening Statement Broad.
The opening statement made on
Tuesday by Attorney Hawley was a
broad and sweeping arraignment of the
leaders of the Western Federation of
Miners. who were charged with plot
ting wholesale murder and hiring as
sassins, all in a giant conspiracy of
vengeance upon those who obstructed
their sway. to destroy opposition by
terrorism, to control the political des-
TIMES of the communities covered by
their organization and TO perpetuate
their own power within organization.
The statement charged a widespread
conspiracy dating in inception from
the north Idaho disturbance. fifteen
years ago, reaching down to the muir
der of Frank Steunenberg. and whose
murdered victims by bullet and bomb,
he said. numbered scores. Hawley de-
clared that wherever in the mining sec
tions of the coast states the federation
had been in control. there had been
left a trail of blood to mark its opera
tions. OF the hired aSsassins. he
cried: ITO them murder became trade
and assassination a means of living"
Orchard to Be Tried Later.
Haywood will be tried for the MUIR
der of Steunenberg. The state of Ida
no has yet to reckon with the actual
murderer-the man who laid the bomb
at the gate of the residence of the gov
ernor. who had retired from politics
and was pursuing his way as a sheep
farmer, but who, when the chief exec
utive of the state. in spite of his allie
glance TO union labor throughout a
Woodworking life. had by word and
deed shown that he stood first and last
for the law and its observance within
the borders of Idaho. 1t was the muir
der of Steunenberg and the confession
of the assassin, Orchard. that laid bare
the alleged plots and counterplots that
led TO the arrest of Haywood together
with Moyer. the president of the
Western Federation and Pettibone. one
of the 15.oGo members.
The case has been discussed every
where in this country for more than a
year. But the side of the prosecution
has never been revealed. and even now.
it is said. much will be left TO the evil
dence. and that from the start the case
will be full of surprises.
Plots of Large Dimensions
Counsel for the defense assert that
the development of the case will show
plots of much larger dimensions than
those limited at by the prosecution. +
They assert in behalf of their clients
that the ''capitalistic class hopes by
the arrest of these heads of a powerful /
labor union to arouse sentiment
against labor unions. and by the con-
vietion of Haywood crush out the cause |
of union labor They charge at the I
outset. and without revealing their de- i
fense. that the whole confession of Or
chard, who they admit is the murderer I
and the case outlined by the state is a
fabrication cleverly built up by the aid /
of detectives. that their clients are in
nocent of wrong doing or of any COM
plieity in the murder or series of mur-
ders charged by the state against Hay
wood. Mover and Pettihone
The case of the state il is said By
counsel will show that no fewer than
twenty-six murders. each one of them
as dastardly as that of Steunenberg.
We're conceived by what is known as
the Inner circle of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners. This inner cir
Gle" it is declared. acted independently
and without knowledge of the men,
bers. and at no stage of the proceed
ings will an effort be made TO show
that more than score of men had any
knowledge of what was going on.