The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-06
MOVER AND HAYWOOD
TRIAL THIS WEEK
Most Remarkable Case in
Recent Years Is to Be
Heardin Boise, Idaho
ASSASSINATION
| OF STEUNENBERG
President Roosevclt's Undesirable
Citizens Central Figures in
Worldwide Sensation.
History OF Crime 4
That Shocked
Nation.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch. l


BOISE, IDAHO, May 5.-On May 9Th,
William d. Haywood, secretary of the
Western Federation OF Miners, will ap-
pear in the District Court here sto
answer the charge of conspiring to
murder former Governor Frank Steun-
cnberg, of Idaho, whose death occur
red as the result of bomb explosion
at Caldwell. on the night OF Decem-
bcr 80, 1905. This will be the first
real step in the attempt to convict
the officers of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners. viz: Charles Meyer,
president; w. D. Haywood, secretary,
and George Pettibone, on evidence pro-
vlded In the alleged confession OF
Harry Orchard, the murderer.
For several months following the
murder, the Steunenberg case was an
affair of mere local Significance. Upon
the arrest of Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone the attention OF the entire
world was attracted to Idaho. The
Socialist and labor elements rose up
en- masse and protested vituperatively
against what they claimed was con-
spiracy to hang three innocent men.
The Governors OF Colorado and Idaho
We're charged openly with employing
the PInhertons to carry out a plot.
than which none in the history of
crime was more inhunan. Judge Frank
J. Smith, before whom the case first
appeared, was called corrupt and the
integrity of the Idaho courts seriously
questioned.
To all of these assertions the State
paid little heed, and continued to gather
evidence with the hope of strengthen
Ing its case.
TO date the case has cost the defense
s,fofc~ than 100000. This sum has been
expended to compensate the attorneys,
Clarence Darrow, OF Chicago, h. h.
Richardson, of Denver; Fred. Miller, of
Spokane, and John +. Nugent, and to
maintairt n vast arIny OF detectives and
others who have been at work taking
aNidavits among the people OF Canyon
county, in support of motion for a
change of venue. Fifty-slA thousand
dollars have been spent by the state
of Idaho, and upon the urgent request
of Governor Frank r. Gooding. the
ninth session of the Legislature appro-
priated an additional $4,000 for the
prosecution. James Fl. Hawley ana
United States Senator w. T. Borah are
counsel for tho State.
Fifteen months have transpired since
the arrest of Meyer. Haywood and Pet
tibone. The defense has constantly
urged an Immediate trial, but 1t has
resorted to numerous legal measures
which have impeded progress and made
impossible the granting of its plea.
In March of this year it asked for
dismissal which was denied. 1ts mo-
ton for q change of venue was Sranteu
condttionally, only Ada county being
offered in lieu Of Canyon. 1t accepted
this alternative, and the case was Or
| dered to Ada county. 1t VIII oe trleu
at Boise before Judge Fremont Woou,
who set May 9th for the date or triai
The defendants will appear separatety.
| Origin of the Federation.
The New York Evening Post prints
she following account of the assassinh-
Ition OF Ex-Governor Steunenbers WIN
and subsequent events:
i For the origin of the western isu-
Grafton of Miners one must Sd pack W
the riotous days of the Occur d.Alel'e
mining district The beginning of that
nnriod so far as the records go, seems
to have been series OF murders IN
the early nlneties. From that start
condftlons grew from bad TO worse,
until at last troop of militia was scnS
Ito tho region, and for a time kept the
disorderly miners under martial law
llt was after the troops We're with
|drawn that the organization Was
formed. on May 49, 1923
4 Lawlessness ruled in the Occur
dAlene thereafter. The system OF in
.imidation then established with rev
I humane preliminaries. such as Tying
non-un workers to handcars ana
> sending them down steep railway
) grades to horrible death, continued
with increased perfection up 70 ths
, time when William D. Haywood,
!. Charles Moyer and George a. Fettibone
were arrested, six weeks after eX-Gov-
ernor Steunenberg's murder. in conse-
ouencc of confessions obtained by
lEJames McParlan, OF the pinkerton de-
: ltcctive force, from Harry Orchard and
; Slephen Adams. hired murderers In
!, those thirteen years the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners had developed until
! IL was the strongest association of Its
;, kind in the world. In six States and
, yerritories-Idaho Montana. Colorado
; Nevada, Utah and New MeXico-it was
!, absolute in Its political and industrial
! sway Otliceholders, dependent upon
! Hts votes, feared to attack it, Sherirs
and constables, learning of its leaders
!; msdeetss and unfailing vengeance
+ dared not incur it's displeasure,
How many crimes are to be laid at
the door of the union minors, whether
authorized by the organization or not,
Is only matter of guesswork. In Or-
chard's confession alone there are tho
!. stories of twenty-siX murders, delib-
: erately planned. he has said by tho
officers OF the union as such, according
to their fixed policy of never allowing
A to escape any one who had worked tho
Federation an injury or combated it's
aims, But this is getting ahead OF
the story.
sE While the Occur d'Alcne reign OF ter
ror was at It's height, in 1895, Frank
Il Steunenberg was elected Governor OF
idaho, He had been farmer. Ex-
tremely popular, and not knowing what
1t was TO be afraid. he did not hesl-
tate to take drastic action when tho
lighting became extraordinarily bitter
and eliminated in the dynamitins OF
a mill at the Bunker Hin AMI sullivan
! Mine. When the mine oMners called