Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-12-27
BARROW OPENS
FOR DEFENSE
LAYS MURDER OF STEUNEN-
BERG TO ORCHARD AND SNIP.
KINs EACH OF WHOM HAD
REASON TO SEEK VENGEANCE

BOlSE, Dec. 27.-TiO Ill to stand
while speaking to the jury, Clarence
barrow, chief counsel for the defense
in the Pettibone trial. sat in his
chair yesterday afternoon as he out.
lined his case. He spoke with effort
at times and never raised his voice
above a conversational tone. The
members of the jury and an audi
ence that crowded the court room
listened to every word from the at
torney's lips as he explained the
theory of the defense. barrow s
statement made it evident that to a
great degree the same line of defense
would be followed as in the Hay
wood trial
On the converting of the court
yesterday afternoon barrow asked
permission to remain seated as he
addressed the jury and his request
! was granted. He reviewed briefly
the early life of Pettibone in Penn
sylvania and of his coming west and
engaging in mining in the Occur
d Alenes, where he became president
of the Gem union. In 1892, barrow
said, the defendant left the Occur
d'Alenes and never engaged in min
ing again. ut was number of
years after he went to Denver" con-
tlnued barrow, that Pettibone
heard of the Western Federation of
Miners. But one day he learned of
convention that was to be held,
and he attended it, becoming ac-
quainted with the officers and lead
ing members. He was later made
an honorary member of the organi-
cation. He never attended a meet
ing Of local union in his life, never
paid any dues and never had any
thing to do with forming the poll
cies of the organization.
barrow called attention to the all
legged indignities to Simpkins in the
Occur d'Alene bull pen" and of the
bitterness that he always retained.
He said Haywood lived in Idaho at
the time and had considerable feel
ing over it, but Pettibone and Meyer
had nothing to do with the troubles
of 1899 and had no feeling in the
the eight. hour law in Colorado, Of
the supreme court declaring it I'M
constitutional; of the adoption of a
constitutional amendment, of the
failure of the legislature to act and
of the smeltermen's strike in Colo
RADIO City and the resulting strike at
Cripple Creek which he character
lied as the greatest labor war in the
history of the country and the most
disastrous to organized labor.
Harry Orchard was referred to by
barrow as a man always looking for
easy money, viii never stuck to any,
thing but gambling and who al
ways made friends everywhere,
whether in the mining camps or in
the penitentiary. He told of Orch
ards transferring his interest in the
Hercules mine to Gardener, from
whom he always had the hope of getl
ting his claim back and said the de-
Tense would show that he tried to
sell this year after he had disposed
of 1t to Gardener.
''We will prove to you by fifteen
or twenty witnesses" said barrow,
that Orchard swore vengeance on
Steunenberg for the alleged loss of
his rich Hercules interests. The
only other man who had any inter
est in taking the life of Steunenberg
was Jack Simpkins and 1t should
have to be shown he had anything
to do with it before I would believe
It." He said while Orchard was
drawing benefits from the miners
union he was being paid as a detec-
tive by the other side and that he
had claimed credit for a good many
crimes with which he had nothing
to do. "The defense will show" he
said, chat the indicator explosion
was a pure accident, that Orchard
had nothing whatever to do with 1t.
We expect to show that Orchard
went out and hunted up all the
crimes that he could and claimed
them as his own, Boosting frequent
" of crimes which he never commit
ted. He is a monomaniac for claim
ing crimes for his own which are