Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-13
PETT|BONE TRIAL
 0M NEXT WEEK Man Indicted With Hay wood and Mover Broken in Health-Still Suffers From Recent Illness.
ATTORNEYS READY
Believed That Prosecution Will Fall Down in Its Efforts to Make Case-HaywOOd Attorney to Head Pettib0ne Defense.

BOlSe, ld., OCt., l2.-BrOken Tn health by his long confinement and illness, George A. Pettibone, indict- ed with Haywood and Mover for the murder of ex-Governor Steunen-
 berg will be placed on trial next week. The date has been fixed for Tuesday, and both prosecution and defense have announced that they
 will be ready at that time Petti- bone is still suffering from the eff fleets of the recent illness that at one time threatened to cause hil death, but maintains the hopeful and cheerful spirit that has animat. ed him since he was brought to brought to Boise from Denver ot answer the charge of murder. Nat. urally a huorist and an optimist, he apparently does not realize the gray ity of the charge against him, or dismisses it with a shrug of the shoulders and an airy witticism. When the condition of his health al- lows, he spend his abundant leisure in making clever sketches and py- rographic work, which he gravely assures his visitors will become highly valuable as souvenirs after he is hanged.
 Little popular interest is mani tested in the case, the general be- lief being that the prosecution will fail to prove it's case. Those who formerly sympathized with the state officials in their efforts to secure the conviction of the Western Fed. eratlOn leaders are critical of the of the attitude the state has taken toward Pettibone who was reius- ed his liberty despite the failure of the Haywood prosecution and the release of Mover on bail. Persons not intimately connected with the who are, neverthe- less, against the defendants, think this actiun has savored of prosecu- tion toward Pettibone, whose life has been endangered by confine- ment, and who is not Socialist nor an active member of the Wes- tern Federation of Miners Petit bone himself has been philos ,phi- cal. He says the state needed goat and that he is it.
 Clarence Darrow, who defended William D. Haywood, will head the Pettibone defense, and will be as- sisted by several able attorneys, in- K. I. Perky, former circuit judge of Boise county, who mas ai- so been retained by the miners. E. N. Richardson, who played an im- pOrtant part in the Haywood de- fense, will not take part in the Pettibone case. Tn, Denver attorney is still employed by the Western Federation of miners. but friction between him and Darrow has causd him to decline to take part in the defense of Pettibone. James Il. Hawley and Senator William E. Borah will again represent the state.
 As in the trial of Haywood, Har- ry Orchard will likely be the prin- cipal witness for the prosecution, and will again repeat his grisly story of multitudinous murders committed, he alleges at the insti- gation of the Western Federation's inner circle" Pettibone, Orchard alleges, was a member of this band of conspirators and took a proml- nent part in planning the murders which he and other hired assassirs committed So far as is known, the state has no new evidence to intro duce, and the only hope for a con viction is apparently in securing a jury that will be more inclined to believe the tale told by Orchard than was the Haywood ir"y.
 Although it is believed that the finding of a sufficient number of qualified jurymen will be even more difficult than in the Haywood trial, +ba takinp of testimOny is IOI eX- pected to occupy nearly IS much time. The trial began on May 3
 and it was not until nearly July 2S
 that the jury returned it's verdict
 not guilty. Nearly mont"
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