The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-27
HAYWOOD WILL
TAKE STAND IN HIS
OWN DEFENSE
Attorney Darrow in Opening
Statement Enters Emphatic
Denial for Miners.

Boise, Idaho, June 26.--In an adj
dress that occupied two sessions OF
the district court yesterday, Clarence
iDarrow, OF Chicago, outlined to the
Jury the detailed plot and defense Of
William ID. Haywood to the charge
that he murdered former Governor
Frank Steunenberg. In broad descrip-
ltion, 1t is denial OF every material
count In the testimony of Harry Ora
ichard, with showing that Orchard
KILLED Steunenberg because of a pri4
'yate grudge as the result of the loss
lof a rich share In the great Hercules
mime, and explanations of the inde-
pendent circumstances that tend I'd
connect three co-defendants with Ora
Ichafi's life and operations. Haywood
will take the stand to make personal
denial OF Orchards accusations. Moy-
Ter may be called to testify solely to
the events and circumstances affect,
dng the Western Federation Of Minersl
but Pettibone will not be a witness
kn this case. Mr.. Darrow explained
that Meyer and Pettibone must stand
trial for this same crime, and de-
cared that every lawyer knows the
danger, whatever the circumstances,
bf exposing men awaiting trial under
In Sweeping Denial.
I Mr.. Darrow denied the existence Of
the great conspiracy to murder all
legged by the state with Orchards
testimony as a basis; denied that the
federation was anything but an earn
est fighting labor organization, with
higher wages, shorter hours, tolerable
working conditions and the care and
safety and education Of its members
and their wives and children as its
high and only motives; denied the In
timacy with the three co-defendants
that Orchard laid claim to: denied the
several conferences and conversations
that Orchard swore to: that Orchard
had not even committed many Of the
crimes he had boasted of. and prom
ised to make proof OF his conten-
'tions with many Of the men named
by Orchard when on the stand and
many witnesses OF creditable characI
ter who were not connected by any
tie with the federation or its leaders.
Mr.. Darrow charged that agents
of the mine workers association OF
Colorado and the Pinkerton detectives
had joined hands in a conspiracy tc
,discredit and destroy the WesterlI
Federation Of Miners. Agents of the
mine owners had, he asserted, com.
mitted many minor crimes to dis
credit the federation, and promised
that the defense would show that
II was q reasonable inference that
they had engineered the Independ-
ence depot outrage as an attempt"
that had miscarried into a tragedy!
He asserted that this trial was the
elimination of the conspiracy to kill
the organization by killing the lead
ers; that the organization and noA
"Bilr' Haywood, was on trial, and
that Harry Orchard, under the MAJ
nlpulation of Detective MCFARLAND
was trying to kill Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone that he might save
his own life.
Explains Draft to Simpkins.
In explanation of the draft for $100
which Haywood sent to Jack Simpkins
on December 21, 1905, Mr.. Darrow
promised that the defense would show
that Simpkins had an expense account
Of 1928 against the federation and that
after Simpkins had cashed the check
for that amount in Denver he gave $100
to Haywood with the request he mail
the amount to him at his home in Spo-
kane.
OF the personal relations between
Orchard and Pettibone, Mr.. Darrow
declared that anyone could make
friends with Pettibone, and that Petit
bone had fed Orchard as he would ANY
other dog" AS to their financial rela-
tions, Mr.. Darrow said that when
Orchard left Denver for Wyoming he
gave Pettibone his money, his Masonic
badge and other trinkets and all his
papers for safe keeping. From time to
time Petitions forwarded parts of the
money TO him as requested.
The registered package that went to
San Francisco contained the Masonic
pin, trinkets and papers, and the money
that Pettibone sent to Orchard at San
Francisco was sent under the assumed
names that Orchard had directed and
suggested in a telegram he sent to Pet
tibone. Use of assumed names, coun-,
sci declared, was common practice
among the union miners of Colorado,)
made stern necessity by the black,
listing of union miners whom, he de-
clared, had been abused, bounded, de-
MED justice and driven from the state.
Mr.. Darrow said the defense would
probably not undertake a showing as
10 the unsigned letter received by Or
chard at Caldwell jail-the letter that
said that" had been sent to Jack" on
December 21, and which Orchard swore
Pettibone wrote-and at the close both
sides would probably argue their re-
spective constructions of 1t.
The defense will call its first witness
at $3.50 o'clock this morning and prom
ised that unless the cross examination
Is exceptionally long to make all of its
proof within seven or eight days.
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