The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-25
DARROW OPENS
THE DEFENSE
FOR HAYWOOD
TO BE A DENIAL OF EVERY MA
TERIAL COUNT IN ORCHARDS
STORY.
HAYWOOD AND MOYER TO TESTIFY
One of Their Strongest Points to Be
That of Counter-Con-
spiracy.

BOISE, Idaho, June 24.-In an
address that occupied two sessions
of the district court, Clarence Dar-
row of Chicago outlined to the jury
the detailed plea and defense of Will
liam ID. Haywood to the charge that
he murdered former Governor Steun-
enberg. Its broad description is to
be a denial of every material count
in the testimony of Orchard, with
showing that Orchard killed Steun-
enberg because of a private grudge
borne of the loss of a rich share in
the great Hercules mine, and expla-
nations of the circumstances that
tend to connect the three co-defend-
ants with Orchards life and opera
tions. Haywood will take the stand
to make personal denial of Orcahrd's
accusations; Meyer may be called to
testify solely to events and circum-
stances affecting the Western Fede-
ration of Miners, but Pettibone will
not be witness in this case. Mr..
Darrow explained that Meyer and
Pettibone must stand trial for the
same crime, and declared that every
lawyer knew the danger, whatever
the circumstances, of exposing men
awaiting trial under like circum-
stances.
Mr.. Darrow denied the exstance
of the great conspiracy to murder al
legged by the state, with Orchards
testimony as basis; denied that the
federation was anything but an earn
est furtherance of the labor organi-
zat1on with larger wages, shorter
hours, tolerable working conditions
and the care. and safety and educa-
ton of its members and their wives
and children as it's high and only
motives; denied the intimacy with
the three co-defendants that Orchard
laid claim to; denied the several con-
ferences and conversations that Or
chard swore to; denied that Orchard
had even committed many of the
crimes he had boasted of; and prom
Used to make proof of his contentious
with many of the men named by Or
chard when on the stand, and many
witnesses of credible character not
connected by any tie with the fedora
ton or its leaders.
Mr.. Darrow charged that the
agents of the Mine Owners associa-
ton of Colorado and the Pinkerton
Detective agency had joined in con-
spiracy to discredit and destroy the
Western Federation of Miners
Agents of the Mine Owners had, he
asserted, committed many minor
crimes to discredit the federation
and promised that the defense would
show that 1t was a reasonable infer
ence that they had engineered the In
dependence depot outrage in an "at-
tempLN that had miscarried into a
tragedy He asserted that this trial
was the elimination of the con-
spiracy to kill the organization by
killing the leaders, that the organi-
zation and not "Bill' Haywood was
on trial and that Harry Orchard, un-
der the manipulation of Detective
MCFARLAND, was trying to kill Meyer,
! Haywood and Pettibone, that he
might save his own life.
In explanation of the draft for
$t00, which Haywood sent to Jack
Si1ftnkins on December 21, 1905, Mr..
DarfAw promised that the defense
would show that Simpkins had an
expense account for 1929 against the
federation, and that after Simpkins
himself had cashed the check for that
amount in Denver he gave Haywood
800, with the request that he mail
the amount to him at his home in
Spokane. Mr.. Darrow declared that
L
tibone and that Pettibone had fed
Orchard as he would "any other
dog" AS to their financial rela-
tions, Mr.. Darrow said that when
Orchard left Denver for Wyoming he
gave Pettibone his money, his ma
sonic badge and other trinkets, and
some papers for safe keeping. From
time to time Pettibone forwarded
parts of the money to him as he re-
quested.
The registered package that went
to San Francisco contained the Ma
sonic pin, trinkets and papers, and
the money that Pettibone sent to Or
chard at San Francisco, was sent in
a manner and under assumed names
that Orchard had directed and sug-
gested in telegram he sent to Pet
tibone. The use of assumed names,
counsel declared, was a common
practice among the union miners of
Colorado, made a stern necessity by
the blacklisting of union miners,
whom he declared had been abused,
bounded, denied justice and driven
from the state.
Mr.. Darrow said the defense would
probably not undertake a showing as
to the unsigned letter received by
Orchard at the Caldwell iail-the
letter that said: That had been
sent to Jack on December 21, and
which Orchard swore Pettibone
wrote-and at the close both sides
would probably argue their respec-
tive constructions of it.
The defense will call its first wit
ness at $3.50 tomorrow morning and
promises unless cross-examination
is exceptionally long, to make all of
its proof within seven or eight days
Steel for New Hotel.