Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-23
BOISE HEARS LONG
PLEA FOR HAYWOOD
Attorney Richardson Spoke All
Yesterday and Today.
HAS NOT YET CONCLUDED
Heat Compels the Judge to Arrange
Night Sessions.
GREAT CROWD VERY ORDERLY
Story of Orchards Life Related in
Scething Terms-The Mania Of
Egotism-Labor and Capital.

Declaring Harry orchard was a
man possessed with a lust for muir
der-a desire to glut a disordered
brain with blood of his fellow-man
Attorney Richardson, continuing
his plea for the life of William D.
Haywood, told the jury today that
the defense was ready and willing
to admit that Orchard accomplished
the taking off of ex-Gov. Steu-
nenberg in the manner described
by him on the witness stand. Or
chard was painted as a man who
fancied there was glory in spectacu-
lar crime. Day after day oppor-
tunity was presented to him to kill
Steunenberg in comparative safety
to himself, but rather than shoot a
man whose giant statue, the attor-
ney said, offered target as big
as the side of barn door," Orchard
planted bomb and planned the
deed so that it might attract the
greatest amount of attention.
BOISE, July 23-Resuming his argument
this morning, Richardson reverted to the
Bradley explosion in San Francisco briefly
to call attention to the testimony of wit
ness who said Orchard declared Bradley
got what was coming to him, and there's
chap named Steunenberg who is going to
get his
The attorneys voice was quite husky to-
day result of yesterdays effort.
cir Orc ND haal to rIara
he made the second attempt the life of
Gov. Peabody, Mr.. Richardson declared
that absolutely no confederation had been
offered to Orchards story of setting the
bomb under the sidewalk and it's failure to
explode because of coal cart driving
across the wire. The attorney also declared
that sufficient explanation had been Of
fered to why Orchard abandoned from
time to time the attempts on the lives of
Gov. eabody, Judges Goddard and Cab
bert, Sherman Bell and Hearne.
do you suppose gentlemen of the jury"
asked Mr.. Richardson that If a murder
Gus inner circle of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners had marked these men for
death and had hired assassins to do their
work they would have been easily and
without apparent cause, deferred from
carrying out their design? Do you i'm
agine they would stop until their purpose
had been accomplished?
Orchards Mania to Kill.
when you consider all the testimony in
this case / think you will reach with me
the conclusion that this man Orchard was
possessed of a mania to go out and kill.
Sometimes his lust was greater than at
others, and SO 1t was that sometimes he
was strong in his purpose and sometimes
wavered. His testimony shows desultory
maniacal method Of pursuing the victims
selected for death for some fancied griev-
ance against himself, or perhaps the
ganizaton to which he belonged. Why,
gentlemen, even Vaughn, the insurance
agent, who travelled with Orchard slept
with him and knew him as well as anybody
could, tells you that Orchards talk at
times made him think the man was bug
house Orchards Is the most absurd story
on the face of the earth. He says there
was never any fixed amount to be paid him
for given crimes-he was always invariably
told not to take too much. as he could get
more whenever he wanted it, In the light
of this testimony what becomes OF Haw-
ley's opening statement to you that the
Western Federation of Miners had a scale
of prices for crime, SO much being fixed for
the murder of a governor, SO much for a
judge and so much for a common labOrer?"
Richardson called attention to the meager-
ness of Gov. Peabody's testimony when he
appeared a witness and exclaimed in
stentorian voice: will you men of the jury
put halter about the neck of this man
such testimony this, and send him to
his death at the behest of the Mine Owners
Association and its representatives? 1t will
be long time, tell you, before the law
will sanction a conviction any such evil
dence as has been here adduced."
Ridiculed Orchards Story.
Richardson rdiculed Orchards story as
to being ordered ito GET David H. Mofratt
president of the First National Bank of
Denver. He declared that Haywood depos-
tied all the funds Of the federation in this
bank and was a constant visitor there
Think Of that. men, and yet this crea-
ture covered with the slime of his past
crimes, comes here and would have you be-
leve that Haywood was planning to COM
nit murder on the man to whom he was in
trusting the funds of the organization of
which he was secretary-treasurer-up
David II. Moffatt, with whom he was
terms of almost intimate friendship. Every
thing connected with this matter gives the
lie to Orchards monstrOus story"
Richardson next pointed out how easy il
would have been for Orchard to have killed
Gen. Sherman Bell had it been so desired
and he declared that if there was any one
man against whom the federation might
feel resentment it was Sherman Bell, who
was in command of the militia during the
strike period in Colorado. But nothing was
done to Bell, nothing was done to Gen
Bulk!ey Wells. Not even Orchard couId
TESTIFY 10 SO much as an attempt on the
life of the latter. who was prominent both
in the militia and in the Mine Owners AS
sociation. The attorney declared that or
chard had logged into the case all the yari
Gus attempts he said he had been hired TO
make for the purpose of iniaming the
minds of the jurors.
Mr. Richardson said that while every
state is expected to take care of the crimes
committed within its borders, Colorado had
sent IAN ocean of her dirty linen here for
young gentlemen to wash.
Admit Orchard Committed the Act.
Coming again in the course of his argu-
ment to the death Of Gov. Steunenb re, Hay
woods counsel said that the defense was
ready and willing TO admit that Orchard
committed the deed exactly as Orchard de-
scribed. Richardson declared that Gov.
Steunenberg's immense stature and the
freedom with which he went about the
country made him shining mark for as
sassnation.
He could have been shot by anybody
able to hit the side of a barn door" as
serted richardson, land Orchard himself
tells you that Steunenberg each week took
long drives to the sheep camp across the
plains where he could be seen as a mark
for rifle ball for miles. There was NOT
a week of his life that he could not have
been safely killed, had there been a de-
sire for HIS taking off In anything but a
spectacular manner. / say to you that
Orchard had a mania for crime and for
ting rriy in, th,t