The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-20
DeniaIs Were Expected.


We expected" said the attorney, that
Bill Davis. Bill Altman. Bill Easterly and
all the others implicated by Orchard in
grave crimes would come here and deny
the charges. And in my heart, gentle
men, i cannot blame them even for per
Juring themselves. 1t is human nature
for a man to lie to save himself under
such circumstances But Bill Davis told
an unnecessary falsehood when he said
he was not on the train or wasn't al
Wardner the day the Bunker Hill was
blown up. 1t was absolutely absurd in
view of the testimony which has been
here adduced.'
After dwelling upon the Bunker Hill
outrage for an hour Mr.. Hawley finally
dismissed it with the declaration that it
certainly could not be charged to any per-
sOnal motive on the part of Orchard. The
Western Federation Of Miners, and only
the Western Federation of Miners had
the motive and was responsible. He then
passed on to the Cripple Creek troubles.
Orchards story as TO the VindicatOr mine
explosion, in which Mccormick and Beck
were killed. Mr.. Hawley claimed has been
amply coTrObOrated, even to the uneX-
pected testimony of a witness on rebuff
tai, who told of the finding of a bomb in
the NindicatOr coal bunkers where Or
chard said he and Owney Barnes had ar
ranged to have 1t placed. Mr.. Hawley
said the state did not know what had be-
come of this bomb until the attorneys for
the defense accidentally and unwittingly
brought it out in the crOss-eXamination
of the man who acted as 'powder-man'
in the mine
As to the theory of the defense that the
indicator explosion was an accident Mr.
Hawley admitted this was true as far
as Superintendent Mccormick and Shift
Boss Beck were concerned.
THE leaders of the strike did not in
tend to kill these two men," said the at
tOrney: their taking off was not what
they had planned. The bomb was placed
there TO blow into eternity some fifty or
go to work in the level where the ex-
plOSiOn occurred
The defense could urge no personal mo-
tive on the part of Orchard or anyone
but the Western Federation of Miners. so
they resOrted to the subterfuge of an ac-
cident. The only witness they could find
to give testimony tending to bear out
the theory was Thomas Wood who had
been employed I'm the mine but a day and
a half. Mr.. Hawley denounced Wood as
a falsifier who deliberately lied to assist
the defense. The testimony i'm rebuttal
he claimed, showed this conclusively.
Mr.. Hawiey said the Vindicator explo-
sion clearly showed the responsibility of
Haywood and his subordinates for the
crimes.
And men," he asserted. who would
conSplre to commit such an act as this
who would. if they could. have sent
carload of Unprepared men to their death
would not hesitate TO murder the ex-
governor of the state of Idaho if if
suited their purpose or assisted in carry
ing out their plans And, gentlemen, a
juror who is not content with such evil
denCe as we have adduced in regard to
the VindicatOr is looking for an Oppor-
tunity to rid himself OF the consequences
Of an unpleasant verdict and is not actu-
ated by a desire to serve his country and
his state as an honest citizen
Mr.. HaWley suspended here and will
resume when court convenes at $3.50 a. m.
tomorrow.