Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-06-28
Darrcw Says 1t Was Orchards
Reas- n For Murder
QUOTES FROM ROOSEVELT
Claim That Mineowners and Detec-
:. tives Joined In Conspiracy to Wreck
Federation of Miners by Killing
Its Leaders
Its Leaders

BOISE, lua., June E0.-lH an auuresS
that occupied two sessions of the dis
trict court yesterday, Clarence barrow
outlined to the jury the detailed defense
of William d. Haywood to the charge
that he murdered former Governor
Steunenberg. In broad description, it
is to be denial of every material count
in the testimony of Orchard, with a
showing that Orchard killed Steunen-
berg because of private grudge borne
by the loss of a rich share III the Her
cules mine. and explanations of the
Independent circumstances that tend to
connect the co-defendants with Or
chard's life and operations.
Haywood will take the stand to make
personal denial of Orchards accusa-
tons. Meyer may be called to testify
solely to events and circumstances af-
fecting the Western Federation Of Min
ers, but Pettibone probably will not be
a witness in this case. barrow eX-
planned that Hoyer and Pettbone must
stand trial for this same crime, and
declared that every lawyer knew tn"
exposing men awaiting tria! under like
circumstances.
barrow denied the existence Of the
great conspiracy to murder, alleged by
the state with Orchards testimony as a
| basis; denied that the federation was
anything but an earnest fighting labor
organization with higher wages, short
er hours. tolerable working conditions.
and the care, safety and education Of
its members, and their wives and CHI
dren as its high and only H. olives; de-
MED the intimacy with the three code
PENDANTS that Orchard laid claim to;
denied the several conferences and con-
MED that Orchard had even committed
many of the crimes he had boosted Of.
and promised TO make proof Of his con
tentiOns.
barrow charged that agents of the
Mineowners' association of Colorado
and the Pinkerton detectives had
Joined hands in a conspiracy to dis
credit and destroy the Western Fedora
ton of Miners. Agents OF the mine
owners had he asserted, committed
many minor crimes to discredit the
federation and he promised that the de-
Tense would show that it was reason
able inference that they had engineered
the Independence depot outrage as an
attempt that had miscarr:ed into IA
tragedy. He asserted that this trial
was the elimination of the conspiracy
to kill the organization by killing the
leaders: that the organization and not
"Bill' Haywood was on trial, and that
Orchard, under the manipulation OF De-
tective Mcfarland, was trying to Kill
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone that h
might save his own life.
OF the personal relations between Or.
chard and Pettibone. barrow declared
that anyone could make friends with
Pettibone and that PettibOEe had fed
Orchard as he would ANY other dog
Ar to their financial relations. Darrow
said that when Orchard left Denver fol-
Wyoming he gave Pettibone his money
trinkets and some papers FOR SAT.
keeping. From time to time Pettibone
forwarded part of the moLey to o.
chard as he requested. Use of assumed
names, counsel declared, was common
practice among the union miners o:
Colorado, made a stern necessity b.!
| tie blacklisting of Inion miners who
he declared. had been abused. bounded
denied justice and driven from the state
barrow said the defense would prob
ably not undertake a showing as to The
unsigned letter received by Orchard at
Caldwell Jail, the letter that said that
had been sent to Jack" on Dec 81, and
which Orchard swore Pettibone wrote
At the close both sides will argue their
respective constructions of 1t.
The defense will call its first witness
today and promises, unless cross-exam:-
nation is exceptionally long. to make
all Of its showing within seven or eight
days.
Boise. Ida, June 26.-The first direct
testimony in defense OF William d.
Haywood was offered yesterday. II
was chiefly directed toward showing
that Harry Orchard, blaming Frank
Steunenbere for the loss of his interest
| 10 the Hercules mine. had threatened
10 have revenge by killing him, and
that the conduct of Orchard and X. c.
Sterling, the detective for the Mine
owners association, both before the In
dependence explosion, when they were
frequently seen together, and after
wards, when Sterling called off blood
hound that was following Orchard
trail justified the inference that the
mineowners inspired the crime.