Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-03
FIGHT To HANG
HAYWOOD
TITANIC
TASK
BoundIeSS Wealth and Brilliant
Talent Enlisted by Both Sides
in Celebrated Idaho Murder
Trial,
SCORES OF DETECTIVES
UNEARTHING EVIDENCE

PIaCod al Disposal OF State
While Defense Hires EQua
Number of Private SIeuthS.
IBy Morning Journal Special LEASED Wire
Boise, Idaho June 2.-The work of
securing jury in the case of William
D. Haywood charged with the muir
der of former Governor Stcuuenberg,
VIII be resumed tomorrow at II
o'clock, unless the prisoner has a re-
lapse. Today Haywood is himself
again Although a little drawn and
pale as a result of the medicine and
the opiates administered to relieve
him from the acute pain which he
suffered yesterday morning, he ap-
peared to be in his normal condition.
lie was out early i'm front of the court
house and walked i'm the sun, after
ward sitting with members of his
family among the pleasant surround
ings of Well-kept lawns and rose
bushes fragrant with blossom
Expect 10 Complete Jury Today.
Judge Fremont Wood has stated
that he is determined a jury shall be
secured tomorrow if possible Forty
siXty-one summoned last week. ONLY
one more peremptory challenge can
be exercised and this lies with the
defense, the prosecution having ex-
hdusted its ten peremptOry challenges
on Friday. This leaves two men 20
qualify, if the defense should see fit
to exercise its last challenge That
oileS nili 10 50 Is admitted by counsei,
but il Is not expected that there viii
be much difficulty in qualifying the
two men out Of the talesmen yet to be
examined. Should this not be done
within the regular course, it is quite
probable that Judge Wood Will hold
a night session.
state Reveals Case Tuesday.
With a jury secured before court
adiOurns tomorrow night, the case for
the state viii be opened by James H.
IIaWIey, leading counsel on Tuesday
morning. This. the first gun in the
real engagement, will be a lengthy
recital of the position taken by the |
state of Idaho in the effort to prove
that Haywood, together with Meyer !
Pettibone, Simpkins and orchard, |
were responsible for the death Of |
Frank Steuneuberg on the night Of |
December 80. 1905.
Expect to Show AssaSsin's Plot.
This opening address to the jury /
win be the first official outlining of (
the case the prosecution homes to- /
prove. Ever since the arrest of the /
three men, Haywood Mover and Pet /
tibone. speculation has been rife ard |
statements. more or les
well founded in fact. have been prH-
lished. 1t is. however. true that s,-
cept in the most general way. no BE-
ihoritative statement has been Civ
out. 1t is now nearly sixteen months
since Harry orchard. who is by his
own confessions 1t is alleged, the as
sassin of former Governor Steunen-
borg, made a sworn statement impli-
eating what is known as the "inner
circle" of the Western Federation of
Miners in the plot to murder Steun-
pnberg. and i'm a series of crimes cx-
tending over many years of the his
.orv Of labor and mining troubles i'm
Idaho Within a few days after Or
hard made this statement, Meyer,
he president, and Haywood, the
secretary and treasurer of the or
and Pettibone. a member,
were arrested in Denver on extradi-
ion warrants and brought to this
.tate on special train under circum-
stances that have aroused much dis
.ussion since the arrest. and which
nave been carried to the highest court
n the country I'm order that the rights |
# the nrisouers might be preserved
Jrrhard Confession Profound Secret {
lntimation Of what Orchard has
tated i'm his confession has come
rom one source and another from ,
imo to time I'm the last wear. bur 1t
nav he positivelv asserted that very
ittio is known of the contents of the
onfessfon which will figure. it is
tated. MS the most sensational fea-
ure of the case against Haywood, the ,