The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-08-02
HAYWOOD NOT
GUILTY SAYS JURY.
Eleven Weeks Trial Ends Fa-
vOrably to the Defendant.
On First Ballot Eight Jurors Vot-
ed for Acauittal and Four
Voted Guilty.

AL an early hour last Sunday morn
ing at Boise, Idaho. the jury which
had listened attentively for II weeks
to evidenc of the most sensational ma
ture and had struggled in the hot jury
room in the dingy old court house of
that city for q hours returned a YER
dict that released from custody VIM.
ID. Haywood, Secretary and Treasurer
of the Western Federation Of Labor.
Darrow's plea and Richardson's ar
gument won over the matchless logic
of Senator Borah and the careful an
alysis of Howley. The fighting secre-
tary-treasurer Of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners escapes the martyrs
crown, which Darrow pictured him as
willing tc wear If needs be and goes,
to quote Borah, back to Denver"
1t came from the lips Of twelve Ida
no farmers, plain, blunt, uacultured
men, representative of the sturdy
stock that is the backbone of this
country, who simply were not con-
WINGED that the State had connected
Haywood ''by his own acts and de-
claratiOns,' to use the language of
the court, with the murder of Frank
Steunenberg, that's all
That was the verdict, and the how
and the why and the wherefore of it,,
and after eighteen months OF impris-
onment, closing with eleven nerve
racking weeks of legal inuuisition.
Haywood walked ont of the court
room free, l!ght-hearted, light-footed.
with a bounding heart, tears of joy
Gus satisfaction in his eyes and il
Eliminating gladness on his face. II
meant TO him victory, not merely per-
sonal, but. in his view, for organized
labor over the hated capitalist Cypress
ors Of scores of years. Not only the
man,but the cause has also triumphed.
1t was a stern heart that could not
meet his in that exciting moment of
liberation and sympathize with the
emotion that filled him 10 the brim.
1t was after being out for twenty
one hours that the jury, which at
first had been divided to 1, and then
seemed deadlocked at 10 to 2, finally
came to an agreement shortly after
the first faint streaks of the coming
day showed gray above the giant hills
which wall Boise to the north and
east. The weary, snow-bearded old
bailiff, who had kept an all-night Wig
il before the door of the Jury room.
was startled into action by an i'm
perative knock from within.
Events moved rapidly enough after
this, and when at last the participants
in the trial had gathered in the court
room at few minutes before o'clock
the white envelope handed by the fore
man to the judge was torn open and
the verdict read. 1t came as an cleo
trio thrill to the prisoner, to his coun-
sci, to the attorneys for the State
and to the small group of heavy-eyed
newspaper men and court officials
who had been summoned from beds
but lately sought or from offices where
sleepless waiting had marked the
night.
The rumors which spread so rap
idly and frequently throughout the
night and which were as unreliable
as such rumors always are, were gem
orally to the effect that a majority
Of the jurors had voted for conviction.
Some were even so radical as to say
that the only difference of opinion ex-
listing in the jury was as to the de-
gree of guilt. The apprehension Of
disagreement spread even to men,
bers of the defendants counsel
and when to this feeling were ad-
ded the rumors of an adverse decs-
ion continually beat about their ears
during the night, there could be found
their joy as the verdict was read.
Clarence barrow. of Chicago. who
had made plea describing the case a
issue as a struggle of "class against
Glass; who had defiantly told the ju-
rors that they were hostile to his
client, and had had their minds pois-
ion continually beat about their ears
had entered the court room with the
mood Of his speech still upon him,
but as Haywood was freed and as the
jury was passing out he We'd with
the other members Of counsel and
with the prisoner himself in thank
ing with many evidences of sincerity
the twelve citizens of Idaho who had
heard the evidence and rendered their
unalterable opinion.