Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-24
TO JURY IN HAYWOOD CASE
Closing Remarks Of Counsel for De-
Tense at Boise.
ASKS NO COMPROMISE VERDICT
Declares Client Is Guilty Or Not
Guilty-Case of Orchard From
Beginning to End.

BOISE, July 24.-Clarence barrow of Chi
cago began the closing address for the de-
tense to the jury in the Haywood case at
9:O5 o'clock. The court room was crowded
to its capacity. In opening Mr.. barrow i'm
pressed the chief case upon the twelve men
IN the box and declared the defendant is
IN Idaho as an alien, brought 900 miles
from home into community and before a
jury which does not view life or industry
as the men accused Of the murder of for
mer Gov. Steunenberg have been taught to
look at it.
The defendant in this case and the men
in the jail below" declared Mr.. barrow.
"have been brought to trial in the home of
man who was killed in the most cow
ardly. the most brutal way that any man
was ever sent to death. Many of you men
on this jury voted for Gov. Steunenberg
One of you had business relations with him.
while In the house of another of YOU he made
his home for two years You are almost
the family circle of the murdered man. and
none of you has ever had any community
OF interest with these defendants. Under
these circumstances / can but ask Won tn
lay aside as much Of the passion and preiu-
dice as you can and look at US as If we
were one of YOU Give the fair and i'm.
partial trial you would give if you had not
known the deceased You men for more
than year past have had your minds moi
soned by lies in the local newspapers, but
now that you have sat here for more than
Two months and have heard the testimony
you know you have been fed upon poison
and lies. Lay aside as much as YOU can
OF this POISONOUS stuff try to set your mind
free and be guided only by the evidence
Says Prosecution Cannot Convict.
Inc prosecution in this case knows
1t cannot convict on the exact evidence
but 1t relies upon the strained, forced cir
cumstances to get verdict from you
This defendant was taken by force from
his home, brought 1.5OO miles and set down
before hostile jury to be tried for his
life
Imagine yourselves, men, taken from
your farms and set down before a Jury in |
Chicago to be tried for your lives and
then you can in some way feel as this |
man does in THIS case. 1 believe that under !
these circumstances you will hesitate to
act on the rotten testimony given In this
citizen.
But some Of you will say, perhaps,
that while there Is not enough here to
warrant sending to death there is, per-
haps, enough evidence to crimes having
been committed in the western country to
promise on a verdict for manslaughter or
murder in the second degree. You have
that right, gentlemen OF the jury, but
want to say that whatever else you are,
do not believe you are towards. And l |
want to say that whatever else Bill Hay
wood may be, he is not coward.
would not thank this jury If it returned a
verdict of assault and battery and ass essed
fine of S. against this defendant.
A Cold-Blooded Murder.
This murder was celdblooded, deliberate
and cowardly in the extreme If this man |
sitting in his office in Denver, 800 miles |
away, employed an assassin to do this cow
ardly act, then you ought to hang him by !
the neck until he is dead. For Gods sake |
men. do not compromise. If you believe the /
story that has been tolG against the man |
no pnH n OH n |