Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-07-25
BARROW IS CAUSTIC
Chicago Attorney Begins Address in
Behalf of Haywood.
SAVAGE ATTACK UPON ORCHARD
Assassin of Steunenberg Denounced as
a Craven, Lying Coward,
STATES ATTORNEY ALSO ABUSED
Two Hours of Bitter Vituperation and
Angry Denunciation.
RINGS CHANGES ON TESTIMONY
Declares that should Jury Hang
Haywood Banner of Liberty
Would lie seiSed by
open Grave.
Assassin of steunenberg Denounced as
a Craven, Lying Coward,
STATES ATTORNEY ALSO ABUSED
Two Hours of Bitter vituperation and
Angry Denunciation.
RINGS CHANGES ON TESTIMONY

BOISE, Idaho, July 24-Ciarenco Darrow
Of Chicago, for two hours and half of
the morning session of the Haywood trial
today proclaimed the innocence OF his
client and the impossibility OF his convlc-
tion upon the uncorroborated evidence OF
Harry Orchard.
]. H. Hawley leading counsel for the
state, and Orchard were the figures around
whom most Of the storm OF the morning
centered. Throughout the ten weeks OF
testimony taking, Hawley and Darrow
have clashed almost daily and there have
been frequent exchanges Of angry words
until. during Hawleys argument, the lie
was passed. This morning Darrow vented
his accumulated wrath. There was no at
temept at refinement of attack, It was
straight vituperation and angry denuncia-
ton For two hours and a half Darrow
rang the changes on Orchards past, his
present and his future, and on Orchard he
heaped every word Of abuse and contempt
that the least possible show of respect for
the court would permit.
The court room was crowded to its limit.
was hot and the atmosphere heavy. but
the Chicago lawyer held his audience TO
close attention throughout the morning. He
pleaded with voice and gesture. Not quies-
cent for a moment he paced TO and fro
before the box, addressing each Of the
jurymen in turn and always pleading
that an Idaho jury should never find
verdict against Haywood on the testimony
of Orchard who, he said, was corroborated
only by a dog a wall-eye horse and j. H.
Hawley.
DRrrows Plea to Jury.
Mr. Darrow, in closing the argument of
the morning session, said If the jury should
hang Bill Haywood, zone. million willing
hands will seize the banner of liberty by
the open grave and bear 1t on to VIC
tory"
The court room was crowded TO its ca
pacity. In opening Mr. Darrow impressed
the chief case upon the twelve men in the
box and declared the defendant is In Idaho
as an alien, brought 1,50O miles from home
into community and before jury which
does not view life and industry as the
men accused of the murder of former
Governor Steunenberg have been taught
to look at It.
''The defendant IN this case and the men
in the jail below" declared Mr.. Darrow
have been brought to trial in the home
OF a man who was killed in the most
cowardly, the most brutal way that any
man was ever sent to death. Many of you
men on this jury voted for Governor
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 the family
circle of the murdered man and none of
you has ever mad any community OF in
terest with these defendants. Under these
circumstances l can but ask you to lay
aside as much Of the passion and prejudice
as you can and look at us as II we were
one of you. Give us the fair and i'm
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not know the deceased. You men for
more than year past have had your
minds poisoned by lies in the local news
papers, but now that you have sat here
for more than two months and have heard
the testimony you know you have been
fed upon poison and lies. Lay aside aa
much as you can OF this poisonous stun.
try TO get your minds free and be Ruidsd
only by the evidence.
CircumEtantIaI Evidence.
THE prosecution in this case knows n
cannot convict on the exact evidence but
IT relies upon the strained, forced circum.
stances, to get a verdict from you. This
defendant was taken by force from bis
home, brought 1,5c0 miles, and set down be-
fore hostile jury to be tried for his life.
Imagine yourselves. men. taken from
your farms and set down before a Jury in
then you can in some way feel as this man
does in this case. 1 believe that under these
circumstances you would hesitate TO act
on the rotten testimony given in this case
to take away the life of a fellow citizen
But some OF you will say, perhaps that
while there is not enough here TO warrant
sending man to death, there is perhaps
enough OF evidence as TO crimes having
been committed in the western country TO
vote to put Bill Haywood In jail-to com
promise on a verdict for manslauRhter or
murder in the second degree You have
that right, gentlemen OF the Jury, but I
want to say that whatever else Won are
do not believe you are towards. And I
want to say that whatever else Bill Hav-
wood may be, he is not coward. l would
not thank this jury II It returned a verdict
OF assault and battery and assessed a 6ns
Of 8 against this defendant
Hinges on Orchards story,
This murder was coId-blooded, deliberate
and cowardly in tine extreme. II this man.
sitting in his office in Denver. 1900 miles
away, employed an assassin to do this
cowardly act then you ought 70 hang him
by the neck until he is dead For Gods
sake, men, do not compromise. II you be-
lieve the story that has been told against
this man beyond all reasonable doubt. then
take him and hang him. He has fought
many a fight against the prosecutors who
are bounding him into this court. He has
fought them on the open battlefield and no
is not a coward. II he has TO die. he viii
die as he has lived with his face 10 the
foe. Bin Haywood is either innocent or
guilty. II he be guilty / have nothing 10
say. But men, this case is a case OF
Orchard from beginning TO end There il
nothing at all left In the evidence without
him."
VituperRtiOn. for HawIey.
MT Darrow here launched into a lengthy,
bitter, yituperative denunciation OF At
torney James II. Hawley, the leMng
counsel for the state. He assalcd hin y a
hired man actuated BY no other motiya
than to get the money Of the state OF
Idaho that he might build another addition
TO his house; he denounced him as bug
house." and said he had been a friend -