The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
Particulars Connecting Accused
 With Stsunenbefg Denied
TRIAL or MINER ON TODAY
The Three Other Officials of Western Federation of Miners to Be Tried Later On-De-
 fense Ready.

Boise, Idaho, May S-By overrulng the motion of the defense for bill of par ticulars, setting forth what overt acts, if any, there were to connect the accused with the murder of former Governor Frank steunenberg, Judge Fremont Wood of the district court of Idaho county cleared the way for the trial of William D. Haywood. secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, which will begin tomorrow morning.
 Judge Wood held that the request of Haywood's counsel for a more explicit statement of the charges against the pris- oners came too late, regardless of whether or not il might have been entertained at an earlier stage of the proceedings. In cases where bills of particulars are al- lowable the man who IS to preside over the trial of the accused miners declared that the motions must be made before the indictments are pleaded to, and be- fore the cases are set for trial
 Haywood is the first of the four men ac- cused to be selected for trial. The others, Mover Pettibone and Orchard, the last of whom is said to have made con- fession. will be tried as circumstances dictate, following the conclusion of the proceedings against Haywood.
 Tonight the prisoner, his counsel and the attorneys specially retained to pre- sent the case and plead the cause of the accusing state are ready for the long or deal. The first, and one of the great tasks of the court, Is to secure a jury, and that will be commenced tomorrow morning as soon as Sheriff Hodgln opens the court. Estimates of the time neces- sary to select twelve men vary, but practically none of them place the time under three weeks.
 The victim of the Caldwell assassina- tion, long a conspicuous figure in the po- 1itical life of the state, was personally known to hundreds of citizens of Ada county, and personal alignment and par tlsanship on the labor question, in which the prisoner and other defendants were for a long time active leaders, Is quite general, so that it is at once a difficult and delicate task to find men free from the disdualications that unfit them for the high duty of a juror.
 Many men who know the community well. and who add to their calculations the further handicap of apprehension of future violence for revenge, take the eX- treme view that 1t win be impossible to SCuIt d Jury, Dul llt heIShl Ol OpilllOn Is against this extreme conclusion.
 There is as yet no indication of the scope of the case, which the state will seek to prove against Haywood It is naturally assumed, however, that Messrs. Hawley and Borah will seek to make the showing as to the alleged conspiracy as broad as possible without endangering it upon appeal, assuming that there is a conviction. Discussing this phase of the case, one of the counsel for the prisoner said:
 ''rhe broader scope of the case afforded by the state, the better we will be sat isfed."
 Nearly forty correspondents for press associations and newspapers have come here to report the proceedings.
 This city is far removed from the min ing country, railway communication at the Couer deLaine and other districts be- ing circuitous.