The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-15
REVIEW OF THE
HAYOOOD CASE
AT BOISE, IDAHO
END OF THE TRIAL IN SIGHT
ER-CONSPIRACY is
PRINCIPAL WEAPON.
DEFENSE HAS NEW EVIDENCE
Claims Orchards Maternal Grand
father Was a Maniac on the
Subject of Crime.
(By the Associated Press. }

(By the Associated Press.)
BOISE, Idaho, July 14.-The end
of the trial of VIM. D. Haywood, Sec
retary and treasurer of the Western
Federation of Miners. charged with
conspiracy to murder, and murder,
is now within measurable distance.
The case will tomorrow enter its
tenth week of hearing before Judge
Freemont Wood in the district court
of Ada county.
Both sides have rested and the
rebuttal has commenced. Evidence
has been introduced in support of the
charge brought by the state of Idaho,
that conspiracy existed among high
officials of the Western Federation of
Miners, to intimidate all persons who
ran counter to the purposes of un-
ion labor with view to establishing
members of organized bodies of
working men as masters of the sit
uatiOn, thus commencing a political
and industrial reorganization, which
having its initiative in the west,
should spread with irresistible force
through every section of the country.
Evidence has been introduced that in
pursuance of this conspiracy, eight
cen men were murdered.
In defense of the man Immediately
concerned and of the officers of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
are charged with participation in the
plans for murder as a means to the
desired end, evidence has been in
troduced to show that a counter con-
spiracy existed among employers of
labor in the west, looking to the an
Inhalation of the Western Federation
of Miners in particular, because the
Federation represented the cause of
organized labor. Evidence has been
introduced that in furtherance of the
conspiracy among actual employees
and capitalists, eighteen innocent
men were killed, the constitution of
the United States was violated and
the conspiracy eliminated in the
state of Idaho becoming party to
an attempt to compass the death of
the leaders of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners, whose secretary is
now on trial.
The state of Idaho has produced
Harry Orchard, who swears that he
is the actual murderer of eighteen
men whose death is not disputed.
He swears that he was employed by
VIM. d. Haywood, Chas. H. Meyer,
the president and secretary of the
Western Federation of Miners to
murder for a price. The Western
Federation of Miners has produced
witnesses to show that if he murder
ed, he murdered because he was en-
ployed by detectives in the employ of
the owners of the mines and wealthy
citizens of Colorado to. commit
crime. that might be laid to the
door of the Western Federation.
The state of Idaho through its
representative counsel, will argue to
the jury within tne 1ext two weeks
that Orchards story is true and that
,4hece did exist the widespread con-
gpiracy to terrorize, 2hat is called
by the defendants in this case, ''the
capitalistic class
The Western Federation of Min
ers through its attorneys, will argue
that Orchard is perjurer for re-
wardthe reward being immunity
from punishment for the murder OF
former Governor Steunenberg, and
that conspiracy now exists on the
part of the mine owners and employ
ers of labor to discredit the Western
Federation of Miners, even though
Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone
should hang in pursuance of their
plans. Two arguments on each side
will be made.
The rebuttal for the state so far
is being directed against the witness
ses produced by the defense to dis
credit Orchard.
At the end of the first day of re-
buttal a warrant was issued for DR.
/. l.. McGee, who swore that he saw
Orchard in north Idaho at time
when Orchard swore that he was in
Denver. McGee is a prominent man
living in the northern part of the
state. Counsel for the defense, as
soon as they heard of the warrant
having been issued, sent telegram
to MCGEE, in which according tC
Lawrence Darrow, one of Haywood s
counsel, they urged him to come to
Boise at once. 1t was expected that
the warrant would be served today
but SO far nothing has been heard oi
it. Tonight the defense claims to
have discovered new evidence tC
show that Orchards maternal grand.
father was a maniac on the subject
of crime and that he formerly lived
in Canada, and there are other init
nations of possible delay. Judge
Fremont Wood, however, intimates
to counsel that the case must be con-
cluded. He points out that by limit
ing the scope of the examinations oi
witnesses on both sides, the hearing
might have been much. shortened
but that he was desirous of giving
every opportunity to counsel to de-
velop their case.
Now, however, the situation is diff
ferent, and further delay would be
an injustice to the state, while the
continued confinement of the jury
would imperil the case. The mos
novel feature of the case is the in
formation of the witness, VIM. Dew
ey, who, yesterday swore that he
participated in the riots in the Coeul
d'Alenes, when two men were killed
In making this confession, Dewey
laid himself open to arrest. Counse
for the state have the opinion tha
Dewey will not be prosecuted.
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