The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-22
DEFENSE BEGINS
ITS PLEADING
RICHARDSON AND DARROW
PROBABLY CONSUME THREE
DAYS BEFORE JURY.
VERDICT EXPECTED NEXT SATURDAY
Defense Barred From Going Into
the Matter of a Counter
Conspiracy.
VERDICT EXPECTED NEXT SATURDAY
(By the Associated Press. }

(By the Associated Press.)
BOISE, Idaho, July 21.-Argu-
ment in defense of William ID. Hay
wood will commence tomorrow
morning, and for the next two or
perhaps three days, b. +. Richardson
and Clarence Darrow will plead for
the life of their client, who, they as
sert, is innocent of any connection
with the murder of Frank Steunen-
| berg and falsely accused by the state
of Idaho of conspiracy to kill the
former governor. The Denver law
yer, who, with Clarence Darrow of
Chicago, has taken a large part in
the defense, expects to speak eight
or ten hours. 1t is probable, there
fore, that Mr.. Darrow will not com
mence his closing argument before
Wednesday morning. The last word
will come from Senator Borah, who
will speak probably on Friday, clos
ing up the states side of the case.
Judge Wood will charge the jury on
Friday afternoon or Saturday morn
ing, and a verdict is expected by Sat
urday night. Opinion is divided as
to the probable result.
The decision of Judge Wood, TAX
ing from the jury all evidence relat-
ing to deportations in Colorado, and
the employment of detectives to har-
ass the Western Federation of Min
ers, constituting the showing by the
defense of counter-cOnspiracy, has
necessarily limited the arguments
for the defense to the evidence .n-
troduced by the state corroborative
of Orchard and the impeachment of
Orchard by the defense.
Mr ba rdc will fol. n nnsi-
| ton that his client, Haywood has
not been connected with any of the
crimes to which Orchard has con-
fessed, and that the alleged con-
spirator has not been corroborated
as required by the law on conspiracy
This will involve review of all the
evidence from the period of trouble
in the Occur d d'Alene district of Ida
no in 1899, down to the murder of
| Steunenberg by Orchard in 1905. He
will present the legal side of the po-
sition of the defense at every point
and disassociate Haywood and the
Western Federation from all knowl-
edge or participation in the crimes
by which Orchard earned the title of
Boss Killer" Mr.. Richardson will
argue from the evidence that Or
chard was not present at the blowing
up of the concentration at the Bunker
Hill mine and Sullivan mine in 1899
and that therefore his evidence in
this matter is impeached and worth
| less. He will argue that the explo-
sion at the Vindicator mine in Colo
RADIO and the killing of Beck and
Mccormick, was an accident with
which Orchard had no connection;
that the blowing up of the Independ-
ence depot in Colorado where IA
men were killed, was the result of a
scheme to rate public feeling against
the striking miners, and that the
killing of the non-union miners was
not intentional, that Orchard had no
connection with it, or If he had, that
Haywood had no knowledge before
hand of what was going on.
The killing of Lyte Gregory in
Denver, Mr.. Richardson will lay to
the door of personal enemies of
Gregory who was engaged in strike
breaking. The Goddard and Gabbert
bombs, concerning which SO much
| has been said, will not be considered
by the defense as seriously bearing
ON the case, but at the same time,
that if such bombs were made and
planted, the Western Federation of
/ MllleTS Hdu uOIHluS W uO Will lHtlh.
The same disavowal of connection
will be argued as to the Bradley ex
! plosion and the Steunenberg murder
itself. From first to last, Mr. Rich
ardson will take the ground that Or
chard, having foully murdered Steu
nenberg, has woven the members of
the Western Federation into his
story at the behest of Captain James
Mcfarland, and Governor Gooding
of Idaho, under promise of immu
nifty.
AS the end of the case approaches,
the town of Boise is even more quiet
than it has been at any time during
| the trial Most of the witnesses
have been paid off and dismissed, but
many people are coming from long
distances to hear the argument. This
is especially true of members of the
bar from the neighboring states.
The people of the town themselves
are also taking much interest in the
arguments and the court room is
| filled at every session. There is,
however, the same absence of discus
sion of the case in public places and
the same determination to avoid any
thing that might create feeling, or
in any way bring discredit on the
community.
Among the permanent residents of
Boise, or those who might almost be
considered citizens by reason of long
attendance of the trial, there has not
at any time from first to last, been
any show of discrimination, or evil
dence of difference of opinion. 1t is
a question for the court to decide.
they say. and the decision of the jury
will be the decision of the people of