Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-25
With Jury for the Life Of
VIM. Haywood.
Fierce ATralgnment Of Orchard
and Pinkerions.
Blow at Federation Will Never Kill
Labor Move.

wood trial today proclaimed the lhho-
cence of his client and the impossipii-
ity Of his conviction upon the uncor-
roborated evidence of Harry orchard.
]. w. Hawley. leading counsel lot the
state. and Orchard were the hgures
around whom most of the storm OF the
morning centered.
The court room was crowded to its
limit. was hot and the atmosphere
heavy, but the Chicago lawyer held his
audience to close attention throughout
the morning He paced to and fro adj
dressing each Of the jurymen in turn
and always pleading that an Idaho jury
would never find verdict against
HAYWOOD upon the testimony of Or
chard. who, he said, was "corroborated
only by a dog, a wall eye horse and
j. II. Hawley."
Mr.. barrow in closing the argument
Of the morning session said that il the
jury should hang Bill Haywood. one
million willing hands will seize the
banner IF liberty by the open grave
and bear 1t on to victory.
1.-THE defendant in this case and
the men in the Jail below declared
Mr.. barrow, have been brought to
trial in the home of a man who was
killed in the most cowardly, the most
brutal way that any man was ever
sent to his death. Many of you men on
this Jury voted for Governor Steunen-
berg One of you had business relations
with him. while in the house of an
other OF you he made his home for two
years You are almost the family cir
Gle OF the murdered man and none or
YOU has ever had any community OF
interest with these defendants.
"ITndcr these circumstances, | can
but ask YOU to lay aside as much Of
passion and prejudiccs as you can and
look at us as il you were one of us.
Give us the fair and impartial trial you
would give If you had not known the
deceased. You men for more than a
year past have had your minds pois-
oned 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. Ee guided only by the evidence.
Regarding the possibility of n verdict
for mansIaugfhter. n murder in the sec
ond degree, Mr.. barrow said:
"Ycu have that right, gentlemen, but
I want to say that whatever else you
are. | 10 not believe you are towards.
And | want to say that, whatever else
RilI HAYWOOD may be, he is not a cow
ard
"If this man. sitting in his Office in
Denver. $50 miles away, employed an
assassin I" do this cowardly act. then
you ought to hang him. For God $ sake,
men. do not compromise. He has fought
many a fight against the prosecutors
who are bounding him into this court.
He has fought them on the open bat
tlcheld and he is not a coward. If he
has To die. he will die as he has lived.
with his face to the foe. Bill Haywood
Is either innocent or guilty. This Is a
case Of Orchard from beginning to the
end. There is nothing at all left in the
evidence without him"
Mr. barrow here launched into a
lengthy. bitter. vitupcrativc dcnuncia-
ton of Attorney James II. Ilawlcy, the
leading counsel for the state He as
sailed him as a hired man. actuatcd by
no other motive than to get the money
Of the state of Idaho that he might
build another addition to his house
He denounced him as "bughouse"
and said that he had been a friend Of
labor, organizations. as he proclaimed.
only when they got their cash to his
office first.
1T Is too bad the old man could not
have ended his career before he took
the case and told the fool things he
has told this jury. What was there in
Mr.. Hawlcy's argument hut Orchards
story? According tn his theory every
body lies that that scnundrcl NAV he
believed. Hawlcy has got 'Orchardits
Or 'Orcharditch' would be a better
term"
barrow referred briefly to- Borah. as
sociatc counsel for the state.
II do not mean To inSinuatc." he de-
Clarcd. that Senator Rorah is any
more honest than Hawlcy. but l do be
lieve he is slicllcr."
Mr.. barrow said he did not believe
Senator Bnrah was overcome with the
truthfulneSs Of Orchards story as was
HawIcy. I'm fact" he went on. Il am
inclined to think that after Senator
Porah believed Orchard was going To
heaven he'd want to gp the other way"
The Sttsreyl seid the jury that il
their verdict should be that they he
lieve Harry Orchard they would be
ashamed to so home and face their
wives. their sons. and, daughters.
Mr.. DarroM declared that Orchard
had been so contradicted by witnesses
that there was no truth left in his
story.
why" he said, "if George Wash
ington with all his great reputation
for veracity should come here and he
Contradicted as Orchard has been. the
Father of His Country would have
gone out of this court room disgraced
and accounted the greatest Ananias of
the age. But If YOU men can convict
Rill Haywood on Orchards testimony.
why, go ahead and do it. have sat
here with you men for two or three
months and I have tried to read you.
I have laid awake at night thinking
of you. There may be some hideous
plan down in your souls-I cannot see
them--hut somehow or another I have
never felt that there was any danger