The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
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ent lack of interest upon any other
hypothesis than that there is a strong
desire to avoid anything that would
tend to arouse the public to discus
sion of the case until after jury has
been selected. The special venire
summoned by the sheriff from the as
SCISSORS roll includes few of what
might be called the better class OF
people of the city of Boise.
This may be accounted for on the
ground the sheriff with a personal
knowledge of the people of this COM
munity has carefully avoided calling
men to serve who are known to have
discussed or to be deeply interested in
the outcome of the case IN order TO
avoid waste of time.
Haywood, the defendant, the first of
the four men charged with the muir
der, to be placed on trial, takes keen
interest in the work OF selecting the
jury. He sits within six feet of the
chair occupied by juror No. 6 and i'm
mediately behind E. F. Richardson,
who acts as leading counsel. though all
counsel for the defense assert that all
stand on an equal footing and that
there is no such thing as a leading
counsel in the case. Haywood makes
suggestions and converses earnestly
with Mr.. richardson, Mr.. barrow or
other counsel who may address him.
His youngest daughter, who sits in the
chair to his right and between him
and his wife, who every morning and
afternoon is wheeled into the court
room in an invalid chair, is constant
in her call for attention from her
father. If he consults too long with
the attorneys she pinches his big fin
gers or lays her hand on his shoulder
Today she was dressed in a short white
frock and wore blue ribbons in her
reddish hair. Mrs. Haywood, evident
ly very sick woman, pays close at
tention to the proceedings.
When Haywood enters the court
H.
ant nod to his family but the child is
the only one with whom he speaks
during the hearing.
A pathetic figure. attracting little at
tention, is that of John Murphy of Den
yer. general counsel for the Western
Federation of Miners, who sits inside
the railing close to counsel for the de-
PENDANT. Emaciated almost skeleton
lied by the ravages of consumption, he
watches every move and scans the.face
of every juror with eyes that look big
from the disease worn face. Not once
has he spoken to a member of the ar
ray of counsel for the prisoner Or offered
a suggestion. He is there as an out
slider, but is evidently intense in his
interest.
Up to the present the hearing of the
case has been wanting absolutely in
anything of dramatic feature. There
have been touches of humor and of
pleasant persifiage between counsel, but
complete lack of anything to act as a
reminder of the tremendous tragedy
upon which the curtain is about to rise.
The proceedings are common place and
the whole scene nothing more t1lan
might be expected at an ordinary muir
der trial. In the sight of counsel and
close attention of judge and counsel on
both sides to the slightest incident and
to every word spoken there is to be
found, however, a suggestion of some
thing to come when all the preliminary
sparring is at an end. the jury selected
and the hearing of the great case COM
mences in earnest.