The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-26
.DARROW VERY BITTER.
Heaps Accumulated Wrath on Or
chard and Attorney Hawley.
NO COMPROMISE IS DESIRED

Tells Jurymen If They Believe Hays.
wood Guilty to Hang Him and De-
cIares Latter Win Die as He Has
Lived, With His Face to the Foe.
Boise, Ida, July 2j.-Clarence OAR
row for two and half hours Of the
morning session of the Haywood trial
proclaimed the innocence Of his client
and argued the impossibility of his
conviction upon the uncorroborated
testimony of Harry Orchard. J. H.
Hawley, leading counsel for the state,
and Orchard were the figures around
whom most of the. storm centered.
Throughout the ten weeks Of testi-
mony taking Hawley and barrow have
olashed almost daily and there have
been frequent exchanges Of angry
words and now barrow vented his
accumulated wrath. There was no at
tempt at refinement Of attack. It was
straight vituperation and angry DE-
nunciation. For two hours and half
barrow rang the changes on Orchards
past, his present and his future and
on Orchard he heaped every word Of
abuse and contempt that the least pos
sible show of respect for the court
would permit.
The courtroom was crowded to it's
limit, was hot and the atmosphere
heavy. but the Chicago lawyer held
the attention of his audience through
out. He pleased with voice and ges-
ture. He was not quiescent for a
moment. He paced to and fro before
the box, addressing each Of the jury
men in turn and always pleading that
an Idaho jury would never find a YER
dict against Haywood upon the testi-
mony of Orchard, who, he said, was
corroborated only by dog, walleyed
horse and Joseph H. Hawley."
On Trial Among Strangers.
In~opening Mr.. barrow impressed
the Importance of the case upon the
twelve men in the box and declared
the defendant Is in Idaho as an alien,
brought 1900 miles from home into a
community and before jury which
does not view life or industry as the
men accused of the murder Of former
Governor Steunenberg have been
taught to look at it.
1.-THE defendant in this case and the
men in the Jail below" declared Mr.
Darrow. have been brought to trial
In the home OF a man who was killed
III the most cowardly, the most brutal
way that any man was ever sent to
death. Many Of you men on this jury
voted for Governor Steunenberg One
Of you had business relations with
him, while in the house of another of
you he had made his home for two
years. You are almost the family cir
Gle of the murdered man and none of
you has ever had any community of
interest with these defendants. Under
these circumstances I can but ask
you to lay aside as much of the pas
sion and prejudice as you can and
look at US as If we were one of you.
This murder was cold blooded. de-
liberate and cowardly in the extreme.
II this man, sitting in his Office in
Denver 1900 miles away, employed
an assassin to do this oowardly act
then you ought to hang him by the
neck until he Is dead. For Gods
sake. men, do not compromise. If
you believe the story that has been
told against this man beyond all rea-
sopable doubt then take him and hang
him. He has fought many a fight
Against the prosecutors who are
bounding him into this court. He has
fought them on the open battlefield
and hS is not q coward. If he has to
do hs will die % he has lived, with
his face 70 the foe.'
Dsneunees Attorney HawIsy.
Mr.. Darrow here launched into a
lengthy. bitter, vituperative denuncia-
ton OF James H. Hawley. the leading
counsel for the state. He assailed
him az a hired man actuated by no
other motive than to get the money
Of the state Of Idaho that he might
build another addition to his house;
he denounced him as "bughouse" and
said that he had been a friend of Ia
Dor organizations. as he proclaimed,
only when they got their cases to his
Office first.
ut is too bad the old man could not
have ended his career before he took
this case and told tho fool things he
has told to this jury. What was there
IL Mr.. Hawley's argument but Or
fhard's story? According to his the
Dry everybody lies that that scoundrel
may be believed"
-Qarrow q: missed Senator Borah,