New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-25
DARROW'S ARGUMENT.
STORM OF VTTUPERITION
FIayS Prosecution an Remarkable
Speech at Boise.


hundred miles from home into community and
before jury which docs not view life industry
as the men accused OF the murder of former Gov
eTnor Steunenberg have been taught look at
them
Imagine yourselves men, said Mr. barrow
taken from yoGr farms and set down before a
Jury in Chicago TO be tried for your lives, then
you in some way feel this does in this
case. believe that under these circumstances
you VIII hesitate TO act on the rotten testimony
given in this TO take away the life of a fellow
citizen But of you will say, perhaps that
while there Is not enough here 10 warrant sending
man to death. there is. perhaps. enough evidence
as 10 crimes having been committed in the West
eEn country vote to pat Bill Haywood in Jail
20 compromise on verdict for manslaughter or
murder in the second degree. You have that right
gentlemeu of the jury, but I TO say that
whatever else you are, do not believe you are
towards And 1 want TO say that. whatever else
BIT Haywood may be he IS not a coward.
would not thank this Jury returned a verdict
OF assault and battery and assessed fine of s.
against this defendant
This murder was soold-blooded, deliberate and
cowardly in the extreme. Ii this man sitting in
his Office in Denver, 1509 miles away, employed an
assassin to do this cowardly act then YOU ought
10 hang him by the neck until he is dead For
Gods sake men. do not compromise. II you be-
heve the story that has been against this man
beyond all reasonable doubt, then take him and
hang him He has fought many a fight against the
prosecutors who gre bounding him into this court.
He has fought them the open battlefield and
he is not coward II ne has to die. he viii die
as he has lived. with his face the foe. Bill
Haywood Is either innocent or guilty II he be
nothing
Is case OF Orchard from beginning to end. There
Is nothing AT all left in the evidence without him"
LONG DENUNCIATION OF HAWLEY
Ny. Darrow here launched into a bitter vituper-
ative cenunCaton Of James II. Hawley. the lead
ing counsel for the state He assaiIed him az a
hired man aCtuated by 40 other motive than 10 get
the money Of the state OF Idaho that he might
build another addition his house. He denounced
MN as bughOUse,' and said that he had been a
hIeha OF labor organizations. as he proclaimed.
only when they got their cash TO his office first
II is TOO bad the old man could not have ended
fool things he has told this jury What was there
ACCORDING TO his theory everybody lies that that
scoundrel may be believed. Hawley has got
'Orcharditis,' or -OrchaTditch' would be better
term
barrow dismissed Senator Borah. associate coun-
sci for the state with a few words.
I don't mean 10 insinuate.' he declared. that
but I do believe he is slicker'
Nr. DarTow said he did not believe Senator Borah
was as overcome with the truthfulness Of Orchard
story Hawley. IN fact he went on. =
inclined 10 think that If Senator Borah believed
Orchard going 10 Heaven he'd want 10 go the
other way
Turning 10 the question Of whether The butcher
had motive for butchering Steunenberg, MI
harrow said there We're many witnesses VINO
showed Orchard was trying TO sell his interest IN
the Hercules Mine UP 10 the time he was driven
from the Coeur d'Alenes There wfxe others VINO
we're 11ncontradicted and unlmpeached in testifying
as TO the threats they heard Orchard make against
Governor SteunenbeTg-
.rIavley would have you believe that Orchard
cannot lie since he got religion. I shall have some
thing 10 say that religion later on but what
7 y-en+ 10 saw now is that if 9awley has got
religion now he had better 90 and get II Il 'heTe
was any left after Orchard got his
CONTRADICTIONS OF ORCHARDS STORY.
Nj barrow declared that Orchard had been so
oontradcted by witnesses that there was no truth
left IN his story
why" ne said ''!f George Washington, with all
his great reputation for veracty. had come here as
a witness and had been contradicted as Orchard
has been the Father Of His Country would nav
Of
the greatest Ananias Of The age. But If you men
car ccnv1ct Bill Haywood on Orchards testimony
why go ahead and do X. i have sat mere with
YOU men for two or three months, and have tried
TO resd you. have lain awake at nights thinking
Of yoG. There may be some hideous plan deep
down in your souls cannot see but some
how or another have never felt that there was
any danger 81 your bel:e"ing that perJuring mon
ster. But, & you do believe him, II am 50 mis-
taken az 10 that Il you have the life Of this
man ssuch testimony this. why. gentlemen Of
the jury, VIII furnish you the victim with
glad and cheeerful heart"
Reviewing tho crimes confessed by Orchard. Mr.
Darrow said that each one Of them showed the
TO be a sueakng. craven coward. who had
never taken chance mat woulc endanger MS
miserable hide. II logical believe, he argued
that Orchard now had turned to lying TO save his
neck He said no immunity whatever had been
promised TO him. but neither Governor Cooling nor
Detective MCFARLAND had taken the stand 10 cor
Toborate him
Darrow turned his attention 10 those sickly,
eobbering idiots who talk about Orchards religion
and regeneration" and declared that before Dean
Kinks his religious adviser, had persuaded him
10 lay his Jesus. Father MCFARLAND the
detective, had persuaded him to lay his crimes on
HAYWOOD Meyer and PettibOre.
D5rrow declared that once before in his life Or
chard had been conyerted-had become supern-
tendent OF Sunday schooI-and he could not say
The second dose would be any better than tie first
Through years of crime Orchard had protected
the name OF hts family from infamy and disgrace
II was the one spark Of goodness in his criminal
breast Other criminals had shot through the trap
door dangle at the end OF a rope. but they kept
locked within them the secrets Of their family
name protect those whom they left behind Il
remained for Orchard, after his conversion,
veal 70 the world his name. then TO send back 10
the Horsley family in Ontario stories OF his wild
that people driving by the graves or TWO
old Quaker parents might point TO them and say
There lies the father and mother Of the greatest
monster Of modern times
Orchard, Darrow claimed had been told by q
miserable Pinkerton detective that If he told his
zeal name his story would have greater weight
upon the jury and would help 10 tie the rope about
the neck Of BIZ Haywood
NO man, Hawley-I might say.
man. declared The attorney, can ever think Of
Harry Orchard with anything but loathing-' In d
burst OF oTatory barrow said:
THE DEATHLESS LABOR MOVEMENT
You men Of the prosecution. you OF the
Mine Owners Association. you men who are seek
ing the life Of BIZ Haywood not because he is
Haywood but because he represents class. don't
he so shortsighted foolish believe that
Won Will strangle the Western Federation Of Miners
when you tie rope around BIZ Haywoods neck.
Don't be blind 70 believe that when you make
three fresh graves here in Idaho you have
killed the labor movement IN TINS world NJ Ileh
.FiP Haywood is gone millions OF other willing
hands viii carry his work victory in the end
barrow described MCFARLAND a lying de-
ceitful scoundrel. The very life Of a detective, he
declared living lie
This man. has spent his life in bounding
down las fellow men, suddenly turns evangelist
and would have you believe tlat Orchafd is
Iniraculousy transformed into new man. Or
card tells you how he talked 10 him about King
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