The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-07-26
Idaho Senator Equal to Darrow's
vituperation.
COVERS GROUND CLOSELY u
Closing Hours Of Haywood Trial Marked
by Increasing Interest.

against another. This is not a battle
of the rich against the poor or the
poor against the rich We are here iP
the interest of law, of justice, of fair.
ness. That is all.''
Senator Borah here plunged into
the assassination of Governor Stuen.
enberg. He declared Orchard had
planted a bomb as he had done many
times before. He was an old and ex-
perienced criminal and was not alone
in the commission of crime.
s'If," he cried, "you stand at the
gate of Frank Stuenenberg's home,
broken and stained with his own
blood, and if from there you follow
the devious ways of Harry Orchard
you will find that the trail Of blood
passes up the stairway in Denver up
which Orchard ran that day while the
darkey held his horse at the curb be-
low.
"The defense would have you be-
lieve that, Notwithstanding what
Meyer may have done; what Petit
bone may have done; what Simpkins
may have done; or what Orchard may
have done, Haywood is not guilty. But
the law, gentlemen of the jury, says
that when men knowingly join to-
gether to commit crime the act of
one is the act of the other, no matter
where that act may be committed 1t
is not an answer to the charge of the
defense to say, We care nothing for
Jack Simpkins; let him go ovreboard.
We care nothing for what Pettibone
may have done, we will take care of
him later tell you and think the
court will instruct you, that in case
Of this character the acts of Pettibone
are the acts of Haywood; the unex-
planned letters and kilograms of
George Pettibone and Jack Simpkins
are the unaided letters and kilograms
of VIM. d. Haywood.
"The only question here is as to
whether the evidence has not said
that there was no conspiracy. It is
said that we have not proven this.
"The evidence in this case shows
that somewhere in the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners there is a power
which controls power which com
mits crime-it is proved as clearly as
the fact that Frank Stuenenberg is
dead Take the goth of April, 1899,
when the members of the Western
Federation of Miners walked boldly
from their work, organized with milf
tary precision, went to Wardner and
there blew up the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill. Mr.. Darrow tells you
himself that the miners went back
next day to their work in the mines.
hn1
there was no such thing as law and
order in the state of Idaho. Oh, no,
gentlemen of the jury, this was not a
criminal act; this was not the West
ern Federation of Miners. What was
it? Was it an accident? Jim Shayne
was killed; oh, yes, but he was a
scab, Darrow tells you. The Bunker
Hill mill was blown up; oh, yes, but
it employed non-union men. Darrow
says that whenever you get lot of
men together and do something it is
something that ought to be done. That
may be the rule in Chicago, but it
does not go in Idaho.
"Darrow has painted Harry Orchard
to you as veritable devil, and agree
with him."
Senator Borah declared that Attor-
ney Darrow in his address to the jury
had offered justification for everything
charged against the defense. He set
himself up in defiance of all the laws
of public decency.
IF the doctrine that Darrow
preacred to you be true, am not sur
prised that these men committed MUIR
DER said Senator Borah, who then
turned on Attorney Richardson and
declared that If Harry Orchard is crazy
it was no compliment to one of the
greatest lawyers in the west that the
maniac did not disclose any of his in
sanity in the 11-weeks crOss-exami-
nation.
"The counsel for the Defense" said
Senator Borah, will tell you chat
Orchard was caught red handed in the
act of killing Steunenberg; that he
confessed to save his own neck and
that if he had not confessed the daisies
would have been blooming over his
grave for year past. Oh, no. gentle
men of the jury, II Orchard had not
confessed the attorneys for the West.
ern Federation of Miners would be
| In this court room defending him and
eulogizing him as a brave man, 8
member of the great working class,
and my friend Richardson would con.
vince you beyond a reasonable doubt
that Orchard could not be guilty OF
the killing of Governor Steunenherg
Ibecause he was in his room at the
Saratoga hotel when the bomb went
off. Darrow says my associate has
.Orcharditis.' Well, maybe he has, but
we got it from the depts of the West
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