The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-23


 pleaded with the jury for the life of William D. Haywood
 Under order
 for the days ss .- and In place of s ..,..- court met at ,-. Judge Wood wa. ...
 that the extren
 room was too
 jurors and con-
 for late evening session.
 The preliminary hearing of the case of Dr. I. T. McGee. ono of the wtt- nesses for tho defense. charged with perjury. came up this afternoon and will be continued tomorrow. Orchard was on the stand for over an hour and was given a severe griliing in the cross examination by McGee's counsel The prisoner witness. however, main- tained his characteristic calm through- out. He denied that he was in the Couer d'Alenes at the time Mo3ee swore to a meeting with him at Wal- lace.
 c. w. Aller, the other witness for the defense. who Is under perjury charge. was bound over for trial in the District Court.
 RichsrdsOn DeAnes Evidence.
 Richardson said the corroborattne evidence in the support of the confess sion must be something that standing by itself separate and apart from the witness story is sufficient to remove all reasonable doubt as to the defend- ants guilt. He charged that the Stato had no corroborative circumstances of this character. as to the murder of Governor Steunenberg. and for that reason general conspiracy was charged and all the events of the Col orado labor trouble were gone into. But. said Mir. Richardson, the couspir- acy that the prosecution complains of Is lawful conspiracy. If this be q conspiracy, then you are in a conspir- acy; If you are & Democrat and voted the Democratic ticket. The Federation of miners was In 8 conspiracy to elect its men to office. to shorten hours and fix wages. and every one of those ob- Jects is lawful in this country"
 Taking up next the history of the Western Federation of Miners, Mir. Richardson said that while much was heard nowadays as to the equal distrf- button of wealth. the motto of all would be, so long men are consti- tuted as they are to get all you can while you are a-sitting. says T." This saying from The HoOsier Schoolmas- ter" applied alike to capital and labor.
 Delving into the Couer dAlenes trouble Mr. Richardson declared that most of the mines there were owned by the Standard oil Company and he pro- claimed that wherever conditions were such as to create a Rockefeller at one end of the line and q man with a xaunt dinner pail at the ether. more or less friction or trouble Is bound to occur
 T am not going to explain or apol- ogize for the men who blew up the Bunker Hill mill," said the attorney, It Is sufficient for us 70 say thar
 
 was not 8 part of 1t and Pettibone was not part of 1t. You're not going to convict these men for what was done that day. so the matter requires but little thought or attention. After the mill was destroyed 1t Is shown the men returned to their homes and their work.
 There was no moro disorder, no in- surrection. but General MeYriman and his negro troops were ordered ineo the district. It is said to his credit that Governor Steunenberg was not on the ground and did not personally witness what was done. but. gentlemen of the jury. iS you were driven out of the country. If you were driven out of the bull pen, If you were subjected to the insults of negro soldiers, would there not have been hatred and resentment in your breasts against all who had caused this treatment meted out to youT'
 Objects of Federntion-
 Before taking up the Cripple Creek troubles. MT. Richardson returned to the history of the Western Federation of Miners and pointed out what its ob- jects had been-N better conditions, to care for the sick and dying. the widows and orphans of It's members. He ridiculed the idea that any one could claim that 10000 workmen or- ganized for their betterment could be termed 10000 criminals.
 He next told of the coming of Harry Orchard into the Cripple Creek dis trict He recalled the early crimes to which Orchard confessed. selling short weight cheese. burning the cheese fac- tory. gambling. etc.
 He even gambled away his interest in the Hercules prospect. according to his own story The defense claims Or chard lost his interest in this mine by being driven out of the country and it was for this that he murdered Steu- nenberg."
 Mir. Richardson went on to explain his statement as to the gambling, say ing that Orchard transferred the mine but temporarily to Dan Gardener, the present owner and was cheated out of its redemption when compelled to leave the country. If this is not true. the state should have put Gardener on the stand. he said.
 Orchard Dime Novel Hero.
 Mir. Richardson described Orchard as saying he was a dime novel hero. He wanted to be known as bad man." He had his pictures taken holding a smoking revolver over a companion lying in a position of death over a card table. This photograph. said the lawyer, depicted the character of Harry Orchard, the "Tinsel hero" and showed the hereditary taint in his init while worrying over some imaginary crime
 Mir. Richardson next entered upon the Vindicator mine explosion. arguing that it was an accident pure and sim pie Orchard he said claimed credit for this, as he did for many other crimes he never committed. The attorney was nf sIt,sr hn Xindicainr