The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-06

The crowd knew Orchard was to
come, and in keen expectancy watched
the two doors of the room. 1t was to
be realization at last. The prisoner
witness long sequestered at the peni
Tertiary was to be produced.
Haywood's mother, Mrs. Carruthers
of Salt Lake City. and her daughter
sat beside the prisoner and his wife,
they having arrived here yesterday
from Salt Lake City. Mrs. Carruthers
is a handsome woman of middle age,
and her daughter is a pretty. girl of 20.
The prisoners two daughters were alb
sent Haywood held a notebook and at
intervals took notes of the proceedings.
None of the Haywood group could see
either door without turning In their
seats, and while they steadily faced
front, they showed their expectancy
for the appearance of the man whose
testimony may mean so much to them.
Horsley had spent the night and
morning at the office of James H. Haw-
ley. and was brought to the court house
in q carriage with three armed guards.
In the chambers of the judge he was
turned over to Deputy Sheriff Ras Bea-
mer, who rs to be his special guard at
the trial. Strangers entering the court
room during the morning were searched
for weapons, and when Orchard reached
the building the doors of the trial room
were locked and extra deputies posted
outside the rail. Sheriff Shad Hodgin
cleared an aisle back of the seats of
the Haywood party. and when he got a
signal from the judges chambers that
all was ready, nodded his head TO Mr..
Hawley.
call Harry Orchard said the states
leading counsel, in a loud tone.
The chambers door swung open and
out marched Orchard, led by Ras Bea-
mer, and followed by two penitentiary
guards and two detectives, all armed.
| They walled him ON the march around
the rail. and then faced the crowd while
he climbed to the witness chair. Far
back in the room a man stood up to get
better view, and deputy shouted,
sit down" The other deputies in
stantly started forward. and if the man
had not taken his seat quickly they
would have jumped for him.
A woman inside the rail dropped her
parasol. It's clatter drew all the at
tention of the nervous crowd. and the
gun-fghting men who were there to
shield Horsley until they understood
what was happening.\
Details of Terrible Crime.
Haywood leaned down between his
counsel SO that he might get A clear,
unObstructed view of the witness stand,
and for fully five minutes he gazed
steadily at Horsley. The latter was,
however, giving his attention to the
states counsel on the other side of the
room, and it was not until the first in
terruption came from the defense that
the two saw each other. There were a
few preliminaries as to Horsley's birth
place and real name, and his first days
in the north Idaho country, and then
HaWley led him down to the destruc-
ton Of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
mine. He was telling of the meeting of
the Burke union of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners when the defense
made its first strong attack Attorney
Richardson objected to the testimony
on the ground the events occurred
years before Haywood was a member
of the central body of the federation,
and that he in no way could be con-
nected with it.
Senator Borah contended that the
state had right to prove the facts
about the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
mine for the purpose of showing why
the Western Federation of Miners had
taken umbrage at Governor Steunen-
berg. Judge Wood ruled that the gen.
eral facts were admissible, but put
limitation on the amount of details that
could be shown. Horsley then told the
story of the blowing up of the prop
erty in which he said that W. F. Davis,
later the president of the union of the
Western Federation of Miners at Grip
pie Creek. had command of the mob.
He told of the seizure of the train, the
theft of the giant powder. the attack
upon the mine and, concluding, said:
Il lit one of the fuses myself"
HOrsley then told OF his flight into
Montana and of various journeyings in
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