The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-07-30
Borah Begins Last Ad-
dress to the Jury.
WOUND UP FOR HOURS
\ Thousand People Try to Gain Adj
mission After the Court Room
is Crowded to Limit-Dar-
rows Abuse Worse Than

Boise, Idaho, July 25.-The case Of
the State of Idaho against William
D. Haywood, charged with the murder
of Frank Steunenberg, a former gov
ernor of the State, will rest with Judge
and jury by tomorrow night.
Clarence barrow, after speaking for
eleven hours, concluded the final plea
for HayWood's life at 1920 p. m, ana
at ! o'clock this evening United States
Senator Borah opened the closing ar
gument for the prosecution. He Will
speak for three sessions or about
seven hours. Judge Fremont Wood
will instruct and charge the jury on
Saturday morning. At least one thou
sand people were unable to fnd seats
in the court room tonight. Two hours
before the hour set for the third ses-
sion of the day crowds began to ar
rive, and within half an hour the
doors were closed to all but court
officials and newspaper men. 1t was
an audience composed almost en-
tirely of Boise people gathered 10
hear the speech of the young man
who, recently elected by the people o.
Idaho to represent them in the Uni
ted States, has been the assistant
counsel for the prosecution in the
case against Haywood.
Aside from the unaccustomed
crowd in the court room and the large
number of women present, the scene
was much as it has been at each OF
the sessions during the last eleven
weeks. Mrs. ~Steunenberg, the widow
of the murdered governor, appeared
in the court room for the first time
since the trial opened. She occupied
a seat inside the railing beside he1
Youngest son, Julian. Governor
Goodin. with a lumber of the execu-
tive staff and a large representation
IF 4La Ctata iJIdipjarV and bar were
among the audience. Haywood was
surrounded by mis- counsel, and his
wife. in her invalid chair, was as usual
by his side.
At the prosecutions table, when
Senator Borah rose to speak, were
seated two associate counsel bu1
James H. Hawley, leading counsel for
the State, was not in his place. OWING
to serious illness.
Darrow.s Final Effort.
Attorney barrow in his final plea
for the acquittal of William d. Hay
wood confined himself more closely
to a review of the evidence, but
throughout there continued the strong
note of abuse of Orchard and con.
~demnation of the Pinkertons. Extreme
hoarseness at first interfered some
with the speakers flights of oratory'
but a liberal use of lozenges afforded
some relief and by the time Mr.. Oar.
row SdcileO the iaDOr CfOuDl6 IN Coz
orado he threw all restraint aside an6
in spite of a reminder from h court
he rose to even greater heights thar
yesterday in his assault upon the eX
listing order, past and present. H
would speak. he said. upon the subjec
of d~eportations to the jury later.
Mr.. barrow defended the action o
Jack Simpkins in disappearing. He ar
sued to the jury that at the time o
S~teunenberg's death no man accuse
of the murder would have been givel
a fair trial. He commended Simpkin
for remaining in hiding during tn
present trial and brought a bold ac
~cusation against the jury he was ad
dressing when he said: Possibly
yea hence every man who has no
been hanged can get a fair trial il
Boise"
He explained the action OF the West
ern Federation OF Miners in re-electiEi
SimpkinS a lembe of the eXecutiv
board on the ground hat as bray
men and brothers, we should stan,
by him until he is tried and convicted.