The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-27
A CHAMPION LIAR
Is Harry Orchard, Says At
torney for Haywood.
OTHER SIDE OF THE CASE
Defense Begins Task Of Breaking
Down Evidence Of Prosecution in
Court at Boise - Darrow
is Sarcastic.

Is sarcastic.
In an address that occupied two
sessions of the district court at Boise,
Idaho, Monday, Clarence Darrow OF
Chicago outlined to the jury the de-
sensc Of William D. Haywood to the
charges that he murdered Former
Governor ,Steunenberg.
In broad description it is to be
denial of every material count in the
testimony Of Orchard with a showing
that Orchard killed Steunenberg be-
cause of a private grudge borne or
the loss of a rich share in the great
Hercules mine, and explanations OF
the Independent circumstances that
tend to connect three co-defendants
with Orchards life and operations.
Haywood will take the stand to
make personal denial of Orchards &C.
cusations. Meyer may be called 10 tes-
tify solely to events and circumstances
affecting the Western Federation OF
Miners, but Pettibone will not be a
witness in this case. Mr.. Darrow ex-
planned that Meyer and Pettibone
mus stand trial for this same crime.
and declared. that every lawyer knew
the danger, whatever the circumstanc.
es, OF exposing men awaiting trial un-
der like circumstances.
Mr. Darrow denied the existence of
the great conspiracy to murder alleg-
ed by the state with Orchards tes-
timony as g basis; denied that the
federation was anything except an
earnest fighting labor organization.
Harry Orchard" said Mr.. Darrow,
was a cheap soldier of fortune,
shos-strlng gambler who had not ever
done a days work in his life.
1--WE don't think that Orchard was
at the Bunker Hill and Sullivans mills.
We will show that he was not there
and we will show that he was en-
gagged in his favorite work of gamb-
ling with the easiest mark he could
find. We will show that he did not
participate in most Of the crimes OF
which he has here boassed. I don't
like to take any of the bloom of a
peach like that, but while we will show
he is not the murderer he boasts him.
self, we will compensate him by prov
ing him to be the most monumental
liar that ever existed.
Before our first witness leaves the
stand, gentlemen, we will convince
YOU; we will convince Mr.. Hawley
himself that this man Orchard has
lied out most of the essential points
of his story. We will have from TWEEN.
ty-fye to thirty witnesses who will
take the stand and contradict this man
absolutely. Some of these will be
miners, but others will be eminently
respectable people who have never
done days work in their lives"
Here, as at other points in his
speech. Mr.. Darrow's sarcasm caused
wave after wave of laughter. Some
times the bailiffs had to rap for or.
der.
Mr.. Darrow briefly sketched the
wanderings Of Orchard as related by
the winsess. Orchard remained in the
Couer D'Alenes, he said, trying to re-
gain possession of his one-sixreenth
interest in the Hercules mine until
he was driven out by fear of. arrest
and confinement in the ''bull pen"
Then he wandered from place to
place, seldom working said Mr.. Dar-
row. "He was a sort Of gentlemanly
miner who mined the miners. In 1892
he turned up in Cripple CreekS But
from 1899 TO 1903 this important per-
sonage in American history, is all
except lost to view. Pretty certain,
however, that during that time he
could have been found in the back
room of some saloon, gambling.
"If Orchard today held his one-six-
tenth intertst in the Hercules mine,
he would be worth half million dol
lars: bu; 1 think he'd rather have
what he's got because it is more val
uabie to the newspapers.
"That story about theBradley house
was another of Orchards pipe dreams
thrown in to make him the greatest
criminal of the age. We have dep
osition from Mr.. Bradley in which he
says the house was wrecked by gas;
that he smelled the gas and that when
he lighted his cigar the explosion oc-
CURED. Orchard never. blew up the
Bradley house, and I tell you this
without having any special intention
OF defending Harry Orchard"