The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-07-27
ATTORNEY RICHARDSON BEGINS
TWO DAYS ARGUMENT FOR
HAYWOOD.
ORCHARD IN PERJURY HEARING
Is Given a Severe Grilling in Cross.
Examination by Attorney for Nc
Gee, but Maintains His
Calm Throughout.

days sessions were changed, and in
place of sitting in the afternoon, the
court met at 6 o'clock Monday eve
ming. Judge Wood was informed by
the jury that the extreme heat OF he
courtroom was too trying on some OF
the jurymen, and complied with the
request for a late evening session..
The preliminary hearing of the case
of DR.. I. L. MCGEE, n of the Wit
nesses for the defense, charged with
perjury. came up Monday afternoon
and will be continued Tuesday. Or
chard was on the stand for over an
hour and was given a severe grllling
in the cross examination by cGe
counsel. The prisoner-witness, now
ever, maintained his characteristic
calm throughout. He denied hat he
was in the Occur d'Alene at the time
MCGEE swore to a meeting with him
in Wallace.
c.. w. Aller, the other witness for
the defense, who is under perjury
charges, was bound over for trial in
h district court.
In spite of the sweltering atmos-
phere. every seat in the courtroom was
occupied long before the opening OF
the session. Haywood's mother sat
beside the prisoner, the invalid wife,
daughter and sister and stepfather
composed the family group, and seven
of the battery of Haywood's IN
were in their places.
Mr.. Richardson has subdivided his
argument under eleven heads, which
he enumerated to the jury. 1t is prob
able hat the opening argument will
take two days.
Starts With Steunenbere's Death.
Mr.. Richardson plunged directly
into the death of Governor Steuunen-
berg in his opening sentence. He de-
clared it was Governor ~Steunenberg's
fortune during his administration to
stand in the forefront of a labor war in
the Occur d'Alenes. Perhaps, he said,
the situation demanded all that the
governor did. Perhaps it did not.
Walt " Say ~ yOu
that we OF the defense do not believe
there is any justification for such an
act. We shall not attempt to justify
It, we do not believe it can be justi-
fed from any point of view
At the evening session of court Mr..
Richardson said he would do all he
could to abridge his remarks on &C
count of the intense heat, and believed
he would be able to conclude some
time Tuesday.
The contention CT the defense, M.
Richardson declared, is that no mat
ter whether Orchard committed the
crimes to which he confessed or not,
no connection had been shown De
tween Orchard and the defendant at
bar.
Concluding his discussion of the Vim
Dictator mine explosion, MI. Richard
son showed it to be an accident.
Orchards testimony as to receiving
money from the Western Federation Of
Miners for crime was not c~orroborat-
ed by a single witness, Mr.. Richardson
asserted, and should not be consid-
cred.
Of Militia at Cripple Creek.
AS to the coming of the militia to
Cripple Creek, Attorney Richardson
said they came at the behest and in
the service of the Mine Owners AS
ISOLATION, whose members were as
sessed SO much a month to buy the
certificates of indebtedness issued by
the state.
Mr.. Richardson declared thai while
under the ruling OF the court he was
not allowed to discuss the deportations
from Cripple Creek or the employment
of detectives in the various miners
unions, he wanted to dwell as much as
possible on conditions in Colorado.
Il want to weave into your minds
the thought that will come to you
when we reach the tragic event at
Caldwell, so you will understand why
we have on the one side Harry Or
chard, finely dressed and clothed and
in safety, although he is the confessed
murderer of your late governor, and on
the other the effort to take the blood
of these men-to get them out of the
way at the instigation and for the
benefit of those whose names / shall
mention hereafter. What l want you
men to know is that if these men were
guilty of the crimes charged against
them in Colorado they would long ago
have been called to account by the
Colorado law"
Mr.. Richardson dismissed the MUIR
der of Detective Lyle Gregory in Den
yer with the. statement that absolutely
nothing was shown to connect the
Western Federation with the crime.
Next in consideration of the attorney
came the blowing up of the Indepen-
dence depot. He demanded to know
why young Neville, who was said by
Orchard to have been with him the day
of the explosion, vas brought to Boise,
but never put upon the stand to cor
roborate the ~confessing witness.
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