Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-24
BITTERLY ASSA|LS
COUNSEL HAWLEY
Darrow Denounces
States Chief
Attorney
WANTS CLEAR CUT VERDICT
Tells Jury They Shall Either
Find Haywood Guilty or
Not Guilty.

Boise, July 24-Attorney Clarence
Darrow of Chicago, began the closing
| address for the defense in the famous
Haywood murder case this morning
| The court room was crowded to its
/ capacity In opening Darrow i'm
| pressed the chief points in the case
on the twelve men in the jury box and
| declared that the defendant was in
Idaho as an alien, brought 800 miles
from his home into a community and
before jury which does not view
life or industry as the men accused
of the murder of Steunenberg had
been taught to look at it.
"The defendant in this case" de-
clared Darrow, has been brought to
| trial in the home of man who was
killed in a most cowardly way. Many
| of you on this jury voted for Steunen-
berg. One of you had business rela-
tons with him, while in the house OF
another of you he made his home for
two years. You are almost in the
family circle of the murdered man
and none of you have ever had any
relations of interest with the defend
ant. Under these circumstances |
can but ask you to lay aside as much
| of your passion and prejudces as
you can and look at us as if we were
one of you
Wants Clear Cut Verdict.
Attorney Darrow asked for a fair
and impartial trial and that the jury
| be guided by the evidence only. He
said the prosecution knew it could not
| convict on exact evidence and was
relying on forced circumstances to
get verdict He called on the jury
| for clear cut verdict and asked
them not to compromise on any yer
| dict of murder or manslaughter or
murder in the second degree.
| 81 would not thank this jury if ii
returned a verdict of assault and bat
! terry and assessed fine of five dollars
against this defendant. II you be-
lieve the story that has been told
against this man take him and hang
him. Bill Haywood is either guilty
or innocent. II ne is guilty, | have
nothing to say. But men, this is a
case of Orchard from beginning to the
end. There is nothing at all left in
| the evidence without him."
Denounces HawIey and Borah.
Darrow launched into lengthy,
bitter, vituperative denunciation OF
Attorney James H. Hawley, leading
counsel for the state. He assailed
him as hired man actuated by no
other motive than to get money from
| the state OF Idaho that he might build
another addition to his house. He de-
nounced him as 'bughouse," and said
he had been friend of labor organi-
cations as he proclaimed only when
they got the cash to his office first.
He said HaWley had "Orchardists'
or "Orcharditich" might be better
term. Darrow dismissed Senator Bo-
rah with few words.
| "I don't mean to intimate" he de-
clared, that Senator Borah is any
more honest than Hawley, but do
believe he is slicker.'
Darrow said he did not believe Bo-
rah was as overcome with the truth
fulness of Orchards story as was
Hawley.
"Hawley would have you believe
that Orchard cannot lie since he got
religion. shall have something to
say as to that religion later on, but
what | want to say now is that If
Hawley hasn't got religion ne had bet
ter get it if there is any left after
Orchard got his"
Bitterly Flags Orchard.
Darrow declared that Orchard had
been so contradicted that there was
no truth left in his story He said
it would be disgrace to the state of
Idaho to convict man on such testl-
mony. He reviewed the crimes con-
fessed by Orchard and said each one
showed the man to be sneaking
craven coward who had never taken
chance that would endanger his own
miserable hide. Logically, he argued
that Orchard had now turned to lying
to save his own neck Turning to
Orchards conversion he declared that
before Dean Hicks, the religious ad-
wiser had persuaded him to lay his
sins on Jesus, Father" Mcfarland,
the Pinkerton detective had per-
suaded him to lay his crimes on Hay-
wood, Meyer and Pettibone.
ederation viii Live Despite Verdict
! Darrow declared that once before
in his life Orchard had been convert
ed, had even become superintendent
OF Sunday school, and he could not
say that the second dose would be
better than the first. In closing this