Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-27
BORAH'S ARRAIGNMENT OF
HAYWOOD.

In a speech characterized by much
logic and intellectual power and an
eloouenoe that glowed and famed from
hour to hour until the fabric OF an ac-
cusation dazzling and crushing in its
force had been built up, Senator William
E. Borah last night concluded his ar
raignment of William D. Haywood and
the other leaders of the Western Fedora
ton indicted in Boise, Idaho, for the mur-
der of Ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg.
Judge Wood charged the jury this morn
ing and the case is now in their hands.
For three hours in the morning and
three more hours in the evening Senator
Borah held the crowded courtroom spell
, bound. The jurors sat up straight in
their chairs. The lawyers for the defense
gszed on the prosecutor as if hypnotized.
Haywood himself fixed fascinated eye
upon the Senator during all those six
hours. His wife wept softly to herself
at frequent intervals. His mother stood
| it as long as she could, but had to leave
the courtroom before Borah had been
talking an hour and halt. The widow
of Frauk Steanenberg was also overcome
and had to be led out early in the after
noon.
The Senator reversed the process OF
argument followed by the other lawyers
in The case. He took up his stand by
the little gate in Caldwell, stained with
the blood of Frank Steunenberg, and be
followed Harry Orchards trail backward
from the spot, and he took with him on
his quest every soul in the courtroom
while he held them, as he said, to that
| fight of stairs in Denver that leads tc
the former Office of William ID. Hay
wood.
There was in all his speech a clear
ness most unusual in argument. He did
not cucumber his address with mass OF
immsteria' detail, bat he took one fact
and he put another with it and 10 those
two he added third, and 90 on, until
before the eyes Of his auditors the whole
structure of his argument appeared CON-
plete aud hswless.
He built up his pictures CT the con-
spiracy that sent Harry Orchard, now in
| Ill, aud Jack SimpkiDs, now fugitive
from the law, to Caldwell on their mur.
derous mission, until those who heard
him could almost see the plotters, as be
called Haywood, Meyer and Pet
tibone-st work there in Denver. And
he did il all without the evidence given
by Harry Orchard, by the aid of evil
deuce independent Of his testimony, but
corroborating it.
The blood of every man who heard
him leaped within his veins when the
Senator cried: Watch these FIVE men
Haywood, Meyer, Pettibone, Simp-
kins and Orchard. In little over 80
days Frank Steuuenberg is going to die.
Watch the movements of these men, one
of whom has since confessed, second
| of whom is today a fugitive fsom justice
and third of whom is down stairs in
Jail this moment and afraid to testify"
Another of the most dramatic moments
of this speech came when the Senator
quoted from the admitted organ of the
| Western Federation of Miners, the Min
ers' Magazine, a cruel paragraph print
ed after Steunenberg's death, and which
said of the Ex-Governor: "The press
dispatches report the dissolution via the
bomb route"
AS he finished reading this paragraph
the Senator'S form grew rigid, his bull
dog chin seemed visibly to protrude, his
eyelids closed until you could see his
eyes only through too narrow slits. De
tossed the magazine to the table and
there was deadly silence for moment
before ne broke it with the ringing
words:
"Well might Orchard say that Hay
wood told him Kill him Kill Frank
Steuuenberg, not alone for what he has
done; kill him, so that our enemies may
know that we do not forget, that we dc
not forgive"
'I hardly need to tell you sensible
men," declared Senator Borah, "tha'
Pinkerton detectives had nothing to dc
with the assassination Of Frank Steunen
berg. That is one of the most absurd O.
the many absurd things brought into thi'
case by the learned counsel for the de-