The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-23
STRONG PLEA
FOR HAYWOOD
Attorney Richardson Consumes
Morning and Evening
Sessions.
PERJURY CHARGES CONTINUED
Heat i'm Court Room Intense and
Afternoon Session Postponed
Until Evening.
PERJURY CHARGES CONTINUED
(By the Associated Press. }

(By the Associated Press.)
BOISE, Idaho, July 22.-For four
hours and half today e. F.. Rich
ardson pleaded with the jury for the
life of William ID. Haywood. Under
orders of the court, the hours for
the days sessions were changed and
in place of sitting in the afternoon,
court met at 6 o'clock this evening.
Judge Wood was informed by the
jury that the extreme heat of the
court room was too trying on some
of the jurymen and he complied with
the request for late evening ses-
sion.
The preliminary hearing of the
case of DR.. |. l.. McGee, one of the
with perjury, came up this afternoon
and will be continued tomorrow.
Orchard was on the stand for over
an hour and was given a severe grill
ing in the examination by McGee's
counsel. The prisoner witness, how
ever, maintained his characteristic
calm throughout. He denied that he
was in the Coeur d'Alenes at the
time McGee swore to a meeting with
him at Wallace.
G. w. Aller, the other witness for
the defense, who is under perjury
charges, was today bound over for
trial in the district court.
At the evening session of court
Mr.. Richardson said he would do all
he could to abridge his remarks on
account of the intense heat and be-
lieved he would be able to conclude
some time tomorrow. The conten-
tiOn of the defense, Richardson de-
clared, Is that no matter whether
Orchard committed the crimes to
which he confessed or not, no con-
nection has been shown between Or
chard and the defendant at bar.
Concluding his discussion of the Vim
dicator mine explosion, Richardson
declared again that the preponder-
ance of testimony showed it to be an
accident.
Orchards testimony as to receiv-
ing money from the Western Fedora
tion of Miners for crimes was not
cOrroborated by single witness, Mr..
Richardson asserted, and could not
be considered. Both Meyer and
Haywood denied that they had ever
given Orchard money and the state
had failed to show any fund from
which such money could have been
paid, AS to the value of their testi-
mony, the attorney said Meyer and
Haywood stand in practically the
same light as Harry Orchard and are
entitled to the same belief.
As to the coming Of the militia to
Cripple Creek, Attorney Richardson
said they came at the behest and in
the service of the Mine Owners as
sociation, whose members were as
gessed so much month to bond the
certificate of Indebtedness issued by
the state.
Referring to Meyers arrest at
Telluride for desecration of the flag,
Richardson declared the thirteen
statements Meyer had had printed
on the folds of "Old Glory" were in
dubitable truths and would be shown
as truths when applied to evidence
in the Haywood case.
And as to old Glory | want to
tell you men that the flag is as much
thought of and as much revered by
the Western Federation of Miners
as by any combination of capitalists
who use it for their purposes in any
part of the world
Mr.. Richardson declared that
while, under the ruling of the court,
ne WAS IOJ dllOWCu W uioSue' 'Aio
deportations from Cripple Creek, or
the employment of detectives in the
various miners unions, he wanted to
dwell as much as possible on cOhdl-
tiOns in Colorado.
Il want to weave into your minds
the thought that will come to you
when we reach the tragic event at
Caldwell; so you will understand
WHY we have on the one side Harry
Orchard, finely dressed and clothed,
although he has confessed to having
murdered your late governor, and on
the other the effort to take the blood
of these men-to get them out OF
the way at the instigation and for
the benefit of those whose names
shall mention hereafter. What
want YOU men to know is that II
these men were guilty of the crimes
charged against lem in Colorado
they would long ago have been
called to account to Colorado law
Mr.. Richardson dismissed the
murder of Detective Lyte Gregory
In Denver with the statement thai
absolutely nothing was shown tc
connect the Western Federation
with the crime.
The attorney here said that sucf
testimony of Orchard as had beer
shown, reminded him of the mar
who remained away from home al
night, when he went to the world :!
fair, and told his wife that he hat
been in the Ferris wheel. His wife
said she could not accept such al
explanation. why, my dear, II yo.
don't believe it," said the man, III
take you out and show you the Fer
ris Wheel"
Next in consideration of the at
torney came the blowing up of thu
independence depot. He demanded
tn know why Young Neville. who wa
said by Orchard to have been witt
him the day of the explosion, wa
brought to Boise, but never put up
ON the stand to cOrroborate the con
Tossing witness. 49,,
'"There is something behind thi