The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-27
Idaho Sen ator Thrills His
Audience in Closing
Haywood Case. "
.PI2ISONE rs 1sA TIE
WITH TUJ 4 Y NOW
Brilliant Bursts oftM Oratory
Marked Borah's Review Of
the Evidence and His
Peroratio1 Stirred
the Great Crowd
in Court.

BOISE, IDAHO, July 2s.- Evidence
and argument are at amend and to \
morrow the Jury will helsft to decide
whether William .. Haywood, secre q
tary of the Western Federation or
Miners. is guilty of participation In III
criminal conspiracy TO- assassinate
who was murdered with Ia bomb att
his home in Caldwell on q December
80, 1905. K ~ Il i!e IA
United States Senator William E,g
Borah, engaged By the State8o of Idaho
as special counsel for the prosecution,
spoke the last word 81 to-night. To-
morrow morning Judge remont Wood
will charge and INSTRUCT the jury
which is expected to retire to consider
the verdict about II o'clock e The
crowd seeking adrnissjoi,8t to the court
room tonight broke AL records In IL
murder trial I'M Idaho. Two hundred
persons remainedin the grounds when
the doors were closed after the morn
ing session, and hours before they
opened again all approaches were
blocked.
When every inch of space within the
courtroom was filled, several hundred
stood on the lawn near tile windows
that they might catch sentences from
the impassioned pleading of the young
| Senator 5s
Senator Boraln laid the foundation
for his argument last Mi ight. This
morning he began an analysis or the
evidence, but he confined himself to
the murder of Steunenberg and the
conspiracy. He linked Orchard to
Haywood, Haywood to Simpkins, Simp-
kins to Meyer. and, Meyer to Pettibone.
Then selecting only48the evidence of
witnesses for the defense. and leaving
Orchards confession sout, he woye the
\ lives and movements OF the Ave men
together. Without departing from the
records. and incidentally clearing II up
situations LETT somewhat clouded. he
brought these officer md members OF
1 the Western Fedcrs.s ion OF Miners to-
Itgetner: :rnuh he tdpk Orchard away
i from Denver and back tof Denver tc
i the headquarters of the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners.
Adopts ImpnssionedA Appeal.
4 This was done carefully and almost
monotonously,, the quiet before the
i storm. Then Borah's voice and man
ner changed. He sprang into action
His voice quivering, hand upraised,
Il fingers outstretched, he shouted
4 Watch them now! Watch the five
conspiratorsi Steunenberg is to die
4 IN sLnlTty5E days ana tIley5 are moving
4 on the scene"
sTbA dTamatic utterance and tense
/ figure OF the pleadert sent thrill
Through the courtroom. For the space
OF ten seconds there was silence, then
relaxing. Borah continued with his
nerclless logic. He brought Davis.
Copley. Adams and Easterly. all off,
GERS or members OF the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners, into touch with Or
Echard. Without a pause he drew pic
4 ture after picture Of the men associ-
ating together at various points. From
each place and frefh from every crime
4 he brought Orchard back ''llome to
1 Denver and then, smiling, he leaned
i Howard the Jury to ask: Why, why
4 always back to Denver, unless 1t WAS
i There to find the protection and the
4 pay OF his employers? -
4 All those things denounced or sneared
at by counsel for the defense found q
bold and brilliant paragraph of de-
!! tense In Senator Borahs lnterludes, and
counsel for the defense were driven ntc
a murinur OF protest now Under the
Z Hash Of pointed sarcasm, and. again
when under the fire OF indignant re-
lproach. culture and Christianity. law
d and order. the home and the country
j found a ready champion. The State OF
Idaho. Its people and It's chief execu-
. tive, each in turn was lauded.
4 Under It all, Haywood was. perhaps
z the one man In the courtroom who
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