The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-05
Alleged Murderers of Former
Governor of Idaho Will
Face Justice.
LEGISLATURE APPROPRIATED
S54,5l6 FOR PROSECUTION
Socialists Of Country Determined That
the Accused Shall Be Acquitted
Whether Innocent or Guilty-Steun.
enberg Killed With Dynamite Bomb
Description of the Crime.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Boise, Ind, March 5.-"This is just
an ordinary murder trial, pure and
simple. II the indicted men are in
nocent they will be acquitted. If they
are convicted they will be hanged by
the neck until dead. That is all there
is to it."
This is the opinion publicly ex-
pressed by Governor Frank r. Good
ing Of Idaho in regard to the trial Of
Charles H. Meyer, president, William
D. Haywood, secretary and George
Pettibone, ex-executive board mem
Der Of the Western Federation of Min
ers, for the murder of former Gov
ernor Frank Steunenberg, which was
called today at Caldwell.
Just an ordinary murder trial-and
laboring men in every industrial CEN
ter of the United States have held
mass meetings denouncing the arrest
Of the federation leaders and have
raised hundreds of thousands of dol
lars for their defense.
Just an ordinary murder trial-and
the state legislature of Idaho has al
ready passed an appropriation bill for
$54,516 to cover the expense of the
prosecution of the indicted men. Of
this sum, $13,O15 went to the Pinker-
ton Detective agency, of which James
Mcfarland, the chief figure in the
prosecution, is the western head. FL
hot w. E. Borah, who today became
a United States senator, received S.
900 for his legal services in the case,
and the balance was distributed
among other attorneys.
Innocent or guilty, the Socialists
of the country are determined that the
indicted men shall be acquitted. In
nocent or guilty, the mine owners are
equally determined that they shall be
convicted. Back of the former are
the organized workingmen of the
country, forgetting all differences in
the face of a common peril which
threatens to bring union labor into dis
repute. Back of the latter are the
great financial interests of Wall
street, eager to overthrow any insti-
tuition which threatens dividends.
Fiends incarnate are Moy-4, Hay
wood and Pettibone, according to their
enemies-members of the mysterious
elmer circle" of an anarchistic or
ganization, their word law. their law
assassination. Saints and angels they
are said to be by their defenders, men
of noble lives and most exalted NOR
ais.
Story of Crime.
Frank Steuenberg was assassinated
at his home at Caldwell on the night
of December 30, 1905. A dynamite
bomb was attached to the gate lead
ing to his residence, and when it ex-
ploded the body OF the ex-governor
was torn to pieces. Two days later
Harry Orchard was arrested in his
room at Caldwell hotel. Powder,
fuses and other discriminating evidence
was found in his room, no effort hav-
ing been made toward concealing the
material. About three weeks later
James Mcfarland, a Pinkerton de-
tective, publicly announced that Or
chard had made confession, embrace
ed in typewriter document of 10000
words, admitting his guilt and de-
claring that he had been hired to do
the deed by Meyer, Haywood and Pet
tibone. It is said that in this confess
sion he also admitted to twenty-six
other murders.
Although the method of the arrest
of the accused men has been declared
legal by the supreme courts of Idaho
and Of the United States, it occasioned
a great deal of criticismm. Acting
upon the information of Detective Nc
Partland, County Attorney o. M. Van