Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-24
Attorney For Haywood Be.
comes Bitter in His Closing
Argument
STATES TESTIMONY ROTTEN
E.mou. Idaho Case Soon to Go to tho
Jury = Lawyer for the Defense Says
Newspapers Misrepresented tho
Fact. - Call. States Leading Attor-
ney a Hired Man.

Roise. July 24.-Glarence Darrow, OF
Chicago. began the closing address for
tho defense in the Haywood case this
morning. The court room was crowd
ed 70 it's capacity. In opening. Darrow
declared the defendant Is In lhaho as
an alien. brought 1900 miles from
home into community before jury.
which does not view the life or the in
dustry as the men accused Of the muir
der of former Governor Steunenbers
have been taught to look at it.
.The defendant in this case, and the
men in Jail below" declared Darrow'
..have been brought to trial in the
home Of q man who was killed in the
most cowardly and most brutal way
that any man was ever sent to death.
Many Of you men on this jury voted for
Steunenberg. One Of you had business
relations with him, while in the house
of another of you he made his home
for two years. You are almost fam
lily circle of the murdered man, none
Of you have ever had any community
of interest with these defendants. I'm
der these circumstances, l can but ask
you to lay aside as much passion and
prejudice as you can and to look at US
as ii we were one OF you. Give us a
fair and impartial trial as you would
give if you had not known the de-
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past had your minds poisoned by lies
in 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 poi-
son and lies Lay as much aside as
you can of this poisonous stuff; try to
get your mind free and be guided only
by the evidence"
THE prosecution in this case knows
1t cannot convict on the exact evl-
dence, but it relies upon strained and
forced circumstances to get from you
this defendant, who was taken by force
from his home, brought 1900 miles
and set down before q hostile jury to
be tried for his life"
81 believe that under the circum-
stances you will hesitate to act on
the rotten testimony given in this case
to take away the life of a fellow citi-
zen."
But some Of you viii say, perhaps,
that while there is not enough here to
warrant sending the man to death.
there is perhaps enough evidence as
to crimes having been comnstted in a
western country, to vote to put Bill
Haywood in Jail: to compromise on a
verdict for manslaughter or for mur-
der In the second degree"
Z you have that right, gentlemen Of
the jury, but want to say, whatever
else you are, do not believe you are
cowards. and want to say that. what
ever else Haywood may be. he is not
q coward / would not thank this jury
If It returned a verdict OF assault and
battery and assessed a fine of IS
against this defendant Haywood, who
As either innocent or guilty. I have
nothing to say. but men this case is
the case Of Orchard from the Begin
ming to the end. There is nothing at
all left in evidence without him."
Darrow here launched into lengthy,
bitter, vituperative harangue Of At
tOrney HaWiey. ieadfng cOunSel Tor the
state. He assailed him as hired man,
actuated by no other motive than to
get the money Of the state. that he
might build another addition to his
house.
He denounced him as bug house
and said he had been . friend Of the
labor organizations. as he proclaimed,
only when they got their cash to his
Office first It's too bad the old man
could not have ended his career,