Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-25
BEGS MERCY
FOR HAYWOOD
BARROW ADVISES THE JURY TO
CLEAR OR HANG
COMPROMISE NOT ACCEPTABLE
TO PEOPLE
Attorney startIes Hearers by Violent
penunelatIon of Orchard and Other
Witnesses Whose Testimony
Incriminates Defendant


"those sickly, soldering idiots who talk
about Orchards religion and regenera-
tion," and declared that before Dean
Hicks, his religious adviser, had per-
suaded him to lay his sins on the Savior,
Father Mcfarland, the detective, had
persuaded him to lay his crimes on Hay
wood Meyer and Pettibone.
1T was a slick game of shifty Harry
this religious dodge, and part with his
past life. But you might have had more
faith in this man If he had not confessed
to MCFARLAND to save his life before he
confessed to Dean Hicks to save his
soul"
The attorney told the jurors that II
their verdict showed they believed Harry
Orchard, they would be ashamed to &c
home and face their wives, their sons and
their daughters.
Turning to the question of whether
"the butcher had motive for butchering
SteuneDberg,' Mr.. Darrow said there
were many witnesses who showed Or
chard was trying to sell his interest in
the Hercules mine up to the time he was
driven from the Occur d Alenes. There
were others who went uncontradicted and
unimpeached in testifying as to the
threats they heard Orchard make against
Governor Steunenberg.
"Hawley would have you believe that
Orchard cannot lie since he got religion.
religion later on, but what want to say
now is that if Hawley hasn't got religion
now he had better go and get it IL there
was any left after Orchard got his
Condemns Orchards Testimony
Mr.. barrow warned the jurors that if
they convicted a fellow being upon the
word of an assassin like Orchard-a man
caught dripping in the blood of his VIC
tins, they would place stain on the
state of their nativity and their adopted
dwelling place.
"It is better" he exclaimed, that you
should let a thousand guilty men escape,
better that you should let all the crimi-
nails ever brought to the state of Idaho go
free, than to have 1t said you took away
the life of man on such testimony as
has been given in this court"
Mr.. barrow declared that Orchard had
been so contradicted by witnesses that
there was no truth left in his story.
why" he said, "if George Washing
ton. with all his great reputation for
veracity had come here as a witness
and had been contradicted as Orchard
has been the father of his country
would have gone out of this court room
disgraced and accounted the greatest
Ananias of the generation. But II you
men feel that you can convict Bill Hay
wood on Orchards testimony, why go
ahead and do it. have sat here with
you men for two or three months and 1
have tried to read you. 1 have lain
awake at night thinking of you. There
may be some hideous plan deep down
in your souls-I cannot see them-but
somehow or another / have never felt
there was any danger of your believing
that perjured monster.
.sBut if you do believe him, if 1 am
so mistaken as to that, If you must
re h; &c 4
mony as that-why gentlemen of the
Jury we will furnish you the victim
with a glad and cheerful heart"
Says Governor Brought Trouble
The career of Frank Steunenberg,
the murdered governor of Idaho, was
discussed at some length by Clarence
barrow this evening in the course of
his plea in behalf of William d. Hay
wood. Justifying the articles pub
lished in the Miners Magazine, the of
fetal organ of the Western Federation
of Miners, the Chicago lawyer said the
action of Steunenberg in asking for
United States troops to quell riot and
the establishment of martial law In
1893 was unjustifable and had properly
stirred up intense feeling in labor cir
cles against the governor.
Darrow's argument, unfinished to-
night, developed into an appeal fol
labor as against labor. and the denun-
citation of all opposed to the unions
Herheld an undience startled and oper
mouthed as one after another the senti-
ments poured from his lips. His attack
on Orchard was expected and in thi:
respect he fulfilled and surpasse6 the
limit of sensation.
Darrow's defense of labor unions, an'
of union men was passionate and his
eulogy of the Western Federation eio
toue1t Lovingly he touched on thu
beauty of self-sacrifice found in tn
struggle for humanity when only tn,
workingman is found, and then Will
the bitterest of sarcasm, his vote
pitched to it's highest note, and arm
appraised he heaped abuse on the selhsl
rich and upon the administration OF TN
state of Idaho. He will conclude to-
morrow.