Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-06-29

DEFENSE
HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HE
is NOT GUILTY.
HAD NO CONNECTION WITH THE
MURDER OF FRANK
STEUNENBERG.

Boise, Idaho, June 23.-William D.
Haywood, having already pleaded not
guilty to the charge of murder and
having heard the evidence the state
of Idaho has placed before the jury in
support of its charge, will this week
formally assert his entire innocence
and outline the evidence he proposes
to produce in order that the presump-
ton of innocence, still resting in the
minds of the jIrymen, may become a
fixed judgment. Clarence barrow, as
attorney for Haywood, will say that
his client is not guilty of conspiracy
| to assassinate Frank SteunenbeTg, a
| former governor of Idaho but that
Haywood is in fact the victim of a
conspiracy to disrupt the Western
| Federation of Miners and under the
guise of legal procedure condemn to
death the chief officials of the fedora
| ton, of which Haywood is the secre-
| tary and one of his codefendants under
the indictment is the president.
Mr.. Darrow's address will be an ex-
| that Haywood, by sheer force of char
acter, rose from the humble position
of miner, working for days wages,
| to become the secretary and treasurer
of a labor organization with upward of
$4,000 members. He will show that
| Haywood was elected to Office by the
members of the Western Federation
Inf oh Nf
office because of his ability and his
honesty. He will point out that the
personal character of the man has not
been assailed, but that a conspiracy
has been charged.
Mr.. DarrOW will not attempt to deny
that many foul crimes have been COM
mitted. He will not deny that Steu-
nenberg was assassinated, but he will
maintain that his client had nothing
| to do with them, or any other murders.
and that the state has not connected
Haywood with any conspiracy.
He will charge a conspiracy on the
part of the mineowners' association,
with a large membership and unlimit-
ed money behind it, who, finding the
| Western Federation of Miners inimical
to the mineowners, plotted to wreck
| the Western Federation and by con
spiracy with detectives and others
| create such feelings against the fedora
| ton that governors of state and even
the federal government would be will
ing to help the mineowners to drive
the members of the federation from
the land.
1t will be asserted that the Orchard
story is true only in that the crimes
were committed.
! 1t will be asserted that the cOnspir.
acy, as between Haywood, Meyer, Pet.
| tibone, Orchard and Adams, was a fab
ribation of Orchard, who, in order to
save his life, brought the others into
it, and that the price of the confession
was the pardon of the actual murderer
of Steunenberg. The motive of this
murder, it will be asserted, is to be
| found in Orchards desperate poverty
| and the fact that he saw his old part
ners in the Hercules mine rich and
prosperous, while he, a hunted Grim
inal, robbed tills and attempted bur
glary IN order to replenish his pockets.
1t will be charged that Orchard Dor
rowed money from August Pausen in
Wallace in order that he might have
enough money to go to Caldwell, kill
| Steunenberg and get away.
The defense expects to take not
more than 10 days with the introduce
ton of evidence, but counsel for the
state will go into close examination of
all the witnesses brought to upset the
Orchard story, and for this reason it
is thought that the case for the de-
Tense may take longer time than was
occupied by the state. The rebuttal
testimony will take probably a week.
The speeches and verdict may take
| the greater part of another, so that
it is not thought that the conclusion
will be reached before the end of July.