The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-26
Argument of Senator BOrah
Grows Intensely Dramatic.
Parades a Quintette of the Ac-
cused Before the Jury.
HESAYS WATCH THEM
And a Concerted Conspiracy
Has Been Proven.
Haywood SCOT Busy" as Soon as
Orchard Was Caught.

Boise. Idaho. July 26.-"watch these
five men-Simpkins, Orchard, Haywood,
Meyer and -Steunenberg is to
die in 90 days. Watch them, We have
got them together! They are moving
to the scene
This was the dramatic climax reach
ed this morning in the Haywood trial
when for an hour and a half Senator
Rorah, making the last argument in
the Haywood case, had woven craftily
on the meshes of his net His theme
was conspiracy-the essence of the case
of the state of Idaho in it's effort to
show that Harry Orchard was only the
tool of Haywood when he killed the
1ormer governor.
Now watch this quintette," he cried
trlumphantly, when, having laid his
foundation, piece by piece, using only
the testimony of witnesses. for the de-
tense itself, picking it from the mass
of mixed material. he showed the in
timacy between Orchard and the high
est officers of the Western Federation
of Miners.
The argument of the morning center
ed in Caldwell. but the scenes changed
rapidly, each flash showing an officer,
a friend OF a member of the Western
Federation of Miners the confidant and
intimate of Harry Orchard.
Hundreds Turned Away.
As early as o'clock the court house
doors We're besieged by hundreds seek
ing adInlttance to the limited court
room, Senator Borah being popular as
an orator in this, his home city So
great was the throng that court Off
cials and others having business at the
trial had to find their way into the
building by various ways, most Of them
climbing a steep improvised stairway
IN the rear. The jury was also brought
up these steps.
inside the court, as the next to the
last cay of the trial began Haywood
sat surrounded by his family His in
valid wife, whose helpless condition and
pallfd face have already attracted so
much after ton and sympathy, sat i'm
mediately at his right and next TO her
was the defendants mother, who on
yesterday could not restrain the tears
which welled to her eyes as Clarence
barrow Of Chicago, made the last plea
Tor the life of her son. The prisoners
daughter and sister were also in the
family circle, the only absentee being
the little 10 year old Henrietta.
Mrs. Frank Steunenberg. the wife of
the murdered governor and her stall /
Nart son, Julian, were early in the court /
1oom and when they had been shown !
to seats inside the attorneys rail. found !
Themselves within seven or eight feet
Of Haywood himself ATTORNEYS from i
many cities in the west have come to /
BCise for the last arguments and con- /
stituted large proportion of today's |
big audience. When the last seats were /
occupied. 5islppointed hundreds remain |
ed on the court house lawn to catch /
what they could of Senator Borah's /
address as the words filtered out of the /
windows.
Follows Trail of Blood.
senate bOIan ~~e-.-I - -evieWing
briefly .ne points n.oue 4n me Opening /
hour OF MS address Tie jury last /
night. He said he MouId go orleny over |
the trail OF blood lett ~ harry Orchard,
taking first the nIurIer o1 Governor
SteunenberS and marking back over
some OF the most inIpo- tdnt incidents in
the testimony.
Il hardly need to tell you sensible
men," declared the pieader, that Pink
erton detectives haQ nothing To do with
the assassination OF Frank Steunen-
berg. That is one of the most absurd
OF the many absurd things brought into
the case by learned counsel of the de-
Tense"
Senator Borah in laying the founda-
tiol for his argument on conspiracy |
pointed out that Orchard went to Cald-
well from Denver and fresh from as |
sociation with the officers of the West
ern Federation of Miners who regarded
Steunenberg as an enemy. Then he
touched upon the fact that Marion
Ri OOre, an officer of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners, in testifying for the
defense, admitted that he agreed WITH
Orchard to deceive Orchards wife when
Orchard wished to desert her.
harry Orchard left Denver with
,
peliing force came from Denver. George
PetJIbOne helped Orchard pack his uten-
siis Of murder in his trunk. Why is not
Eettibone here to deny it? His silence
s a confession of his guilt. Pettinone's
absence is an absolute colroboTation of
Orchard"
Personal Motive.
Taking up the question OF the personal
motive the defense had engaged against
Orchard Senator Borah showed to the
jury the deed by which Orchard had '
parted absolutely and forever with his {
interest in the Hercules mines IA months
before General Merriam and his negro
troopers marched into the Occur
DAlenes. This deed the letters and tel
agrams and all the other evidence not
subject to being tampered with in this {
case, corroborates Harry Orchard and
it in precisely with the story he has
Eold you. Governor Steunenberg did not
eause Orchard to lose his interest in the
nine, so how could he have entertained ,
murderous grudge?"
Senator Borah took up one by one
the witnesses for the defense. who )
ne SAID corro borated Orchard and G
proved a criminal conspiracy, because t
hey had covered and protected Orch I
lrd up to the time he confessed and i
implicated Haywood.
Among these were Bill EasterIy. the I
member of the Western Federation of $
Miners, who heard Orchards threats l
md to whom Orchard telephoned from
before the murder I
w. F. Davis, the president of the
Western Federation of Miners local. q
Who heard Orchard make threats I
lgainst Steunenberg. and who swore
he passing of the armed and masked
mob in possession of a train did not
interest him when he saw it. s
David Coates, the ex-Ieutenant gov +
lrnor of Colorado and friend of the S