The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-01
DEFENSE SILL PLEADS
Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, Be- gins His Argument in Behalf
 of Haywood.
VENTED HIS WRATH UPON PROSECUTION
For Two Hours and a Half Darrow Used all the Invective and Vitup- erstion of Which He is Master in Denouncing Harry Orchard and J. H. Hawley.

Boise. July 25.-Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, for two hours and half of the morning session of the Hay wood trial Wednesday, proclaimed the innocence of his client and the i'm possibility of his conviction upon the uncorroborated evidence of Harry Or chard..
 ]. H. Hawley, leading counsel for the state, and Orchard, were the flg- ures around whom most of the storm of the morning centered Throughout the ten weeks oI testimony taking, Hawley and Darrow have clashed al- most daily and there have been ire quent exchanges of angry words until during Hawley's argument the lie was passed. Wednesday morning Darrow yented his accumulated wrath. There was no attempt at re- finement, 1t was straight vituperation and angry denunciation. For two hours and half Darrow rang the charges on Orchards past, his pres ent and his future. and on Orchard he heaped every word of abuse and contempt that the least possible show of respect for the court would per nit
 The courtroom, crowded to it's limit, was hot and the atmosphere heavy, but the Chicago lawyer held his audi ence to close attention throughout the morning. He pleaded wit voice and gesture. Not quiescent for a moment, he paced to and fro be- fore the box, addressing each of the jurymen in turn and always pleading that an Idaho jury should never find a verdict against Haywood upon the testimony of Orchard who, he said, was "corroborated only by dog, a wall-eyed horse and J. H. Hawley."
 MT Darrow, in closing the argu- mcnt of the morning session, said that if the jury should hang Bill Haywood, "one million willing hands will seize the banner of liberty by the open grave and bear it on to vic tory"
 In opening, MT. Darow impressed the chief case upon the 12 men in the box and declared the defendant is i'll Idaho as an alien. brought 1,50O miles from home into a community and before a jury which does not view life or industry as the men ac- cused of the murder of former Gov. Steunenberg have been taught to look at it.
 "The defendant in this case and the men In the jail below" declared Mir. Darrow, have been brought to trial in the home of man who was killed in the most cowardly, the most brutal way that any man was ever sent to death Many of you men on this jury voted for Gov. Steunenberg. One of you had business relations with him, while in the house of an. other of you he made his home for two years. You are almost the fam fly circle of the murdered man and none of you has ever had any com munity of interest with these defend ants. Under these circumstances l can but ask you to lay aside as much of the passion and prejudice as you can and look at us as if We were one of you. Give us the fair and i'm partial trial you would give if you had not known the deceased. You men for more than year past have had your minds poisoned by lies in the local newspapers, but now that you have sat here for more than two months and have heard the testimony you know you have been fed upon poison and lies. Lay aside as much as you can of this poisonous stuff; try to get your mind free and be