The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22


Total number of death sentences -Four
Total number of years in peniten-
tlary ................... II
Boise, Idaho-Secrecy is the watch
word of the men who are conducting
the prosecution of w. D. Haywood
charged by the state of Idaho with
comprising the death by assassination
of former chief executive, and mys-
terry surrounds every move made by
counsel retained by the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners to defend their Sec
retary. The case has reached the
stage where every move on the part
of the states attorneys is more close
ly watched and reported on by score
of sleuths employed by the defense in
order that counteracting evidence may
be secured from the points in the four
or five Western states where the al
legged conspiracy, eliminating, accord
ing to the allegations of the prosecu-
tors, in half hundred murders, played
its part and from which the state IS
producing witnesses. While the state
has its day in court, another score of
detectives watch the employees of the
defense, in the hope of uncoverins
some new move by which counsel for
Haywood hope to clear their client
from the charge of murder. In these
last few days during which the state
hopes to clinch and corroborate be-
yond a doubt in the minds of the
twelve men with whom the final judg-
ment rests the story told by Harry Or
chard. the selfconfessed co-conspira-
too. tt-nt md dn1Ic or.
tivity is apparent.
Witnesses for the state are arriving
and more are expected to arrive. The
witnesses for the defense, numbering
between $50 and 200, will be here by
the end of the week. Colorado sup
plies the larger number of these, but
California Idaho and Washington will
send others.
Among the states witnesses who ar
rived late yesterday was Judge God
dard, justice of the Supreme Court
of Colorado who was hunted by Or
chard A bomb, planted at Judge God
dard's gate in Denver. failed to ex-
plode, was dug up by Bulkeley Wells,
adjutant general of Colorado, after Or
chard made his confession telling
where the bomb was planted.
A woman witness here from Califor-
mia, who kept the house in which Or
chard had a room while in San Fran
cisco, is expected to testify that while
Orchard was in her room she found
evidence that in the light of his con-
fession shows he tried experiments
with the trigger for a bomb. She
found, it is said, a small screw eye i'll
the door of the room, with piece OF
fishing line passing through 1t and
Of Eel
responds, it is alleged, with the piece
Of fishing line attached to the bomb
that killed Steunenberg and section
of which was found in Orchards trunk
at Caldwell after his arrest. Young
Charles Neville is one of the witnesses
scheduled for to-day, but 1t is possible
that he may be held until later, as
counsel for the state intimate that
they have more documentary evidence
to Introduce
Ed Boyce Takes Stand.
The witness on the stand is Ed
Boyce, now a very wealthy man and
one of the owners of the Hercules
mine, in the Occur d'Alenes, OF which
Orchard owned at one time a sixteenth
share. Boyce was for several years
the president of the Western Fedora.
ton of Miners He has been identified
with the Miners Magazine, the official
organ of the Federation. 1t was. in
fact, started under his direction while
president.
With the opening of court the fight
turns on the introduction of copies of
the magazine. Those which have been
offered in evidence contain number
of articles commenting on former Gov
ernor Steunenberg. Some of these ar
ticles are over the signature OF w. ID.
Haywood, and the state hopes to get
them in as proof of the animus thar
existed in Haywood's mind against the
governor, who had driven the Western
Federation from the state and whose
example had been followed by the gov
ernor of Colorado in the calling out OF
the militia to quell the disturbance and
regulate the mining towns.
The state now expects to close its
case in direct June %. when II is PROB
able that the court will adjourn over
until Monday. The opening of the de-
fense will probably take one day, and
then will commence the attack on the
story told by Orchard. Counsel for
the defense will, at the close of the
states case. however. move to strike
out Orchards entire story, on the
ground that the state has failed to link
Haywood with the murder of Steunen-
berg, with which he is charged. This.
under ordinary circumstances, it Is
said by counsel for Haywood, might be
a somewhat perfunctory matter, but in
the important case they hold that the
state has not so far made good its
case and they expect Orchards story
to be stricken out in which case they
say the case against their client would
fall to the ground.
Counsel for the state say their case
is not completed and that the defense
has no means of knowing the amount
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