The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-06-28

DEFENSE
HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HE
is NOT GUILTY.
HAD NO CONNECTION WITH THE
MURDER OF FRANK
STEUNENBERG.

Haywood, having already pleaded not
guilty to the charge of murder and
having heard the evidence the state
of Idaho has placed before the jury in
support of it's charge will this week
formally assert his entire innocence
and outline the evidence he proposes
to produce in order that the presump-
ton of innocence, still resting in the
minds of the jlrymen, may become a
fixed judgment. Clarence Darrow, as
attorney for Haywood, will say that
his client is not guilty of conspiracy
to assassinate Frank Steunenberg, a
former governor of Idaho. but that
Haywood is in fact the victim of a
conspiracy to disrupt the Western
Federation of Miners and under the
guise of legal procedure condemn to
death the chief officials of the fedora
ton, of which Haywood is the secre-
tary and one of his codefendants under
the indictment is the president.
Mr.. Darrow's address will be an ex-
haustive presentation. He will assert
| that Haywood, by sheer force of char
acter, rose from the humble position
to become the secretary and treasurer
of labor organization with upward of
| $4,000 members. He will show that
Haywood was elected to Office by the
members of the Western Federation
of Miners through successive terms OF
Office because of his ability and his
honesty. He will point out that the
personal character of the man has not
been assailed, but that a conspiracy
has been charged.
Mr.. barrow will not attempt to deny
that many foul crimes have been com
mitted. He will not deny that Steu
nenberg was assassinated, but he will
maintain that his client had nothing
to do with them, or any other murders
and that the state has not connected
| Haywood with any conspiracy.
He will charge a conspiracy on the
part of the mineowners' association
with large membership and unlimit
ed money behind it, who, finding The
Western Federation of Miners inimica
to the mineowners, plotted to wrecl
the Western Federation and by con
spiracy with detectives and Others
create such feelings against the fedora
ton that governors of state and ever
the federal government would be will
ing to help the mineowners to driv,
the members of the federation from
the land.
1t will be asserted that the Orchar,
story. is true only in that the crime
were committed.
1t will be asserted that the conspir
acy, as between Haywood, Meyer, Pet
tibone, Orchard and Adams, was fab
rbation Of Orchard, who, in order t.
save his life, brought the others int
it, and that the price of the confession
was the pardon of the actual murdere
of Steunenberg. The motive of thi
murder, it will be asserted, is to b
found in Orchards desperate povert
and the fact that he saw his old part
ners in the Hercules mine rich an
prosperous, while he, hunted Grim
inal, robbed tills and attempted bul
glary in order to replenish his pockets
1t will be charged that Orchard boz
rowed money from August Paulsen i
Wallace in order that he might hav
enough money to go to Caldwell, XII
Steunenberg and get away.
The defense expects to take nc
more than 10 days with the introdu'
ton of evidence, but counsel for tn
state will go into close examination {
all the witnesses brought to upset tn
Orchard story, and for this reason
is thought that the case for the d.
Tense may take longer time than wa
! occupied by the state. The rebuttf
:, testimony will take probably weel
The speeches and verdict may TAX
: the greater part of another, so thu
: it is not thought that the conclusio
will be reached before the end of Jul,